Austrian Garden

Austrian cuisine and traditionel thai dishes garantie to satisfy the tastebuds...more

Island of Phuket often called the Pearl of the andaman Sea is actually a diamond. So many facettes that ou never can stop looking and always have to come back to look again...more

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PATONG

Patong Beach is the largest beach resort on the island of Phuket. Mostly made up of hotels, restaurants, nightclubs and various tourist attractions, there's patong at night a thriving nightlife, with numerous"entertainment complexes" and countless bars clustered together in and around Bangla Road, and female, transgender and male prostitutes to cater to every taste. Massage parlors of the erotic as well the therapeutic (NuadThai) genre provide less alcohol/drug infested venues for punters and wellness seekers. One can even find masseuses practicing this medical art atop bamboo mats on the beach sands (100 baht and up).

Patong's two main axes are the aptly named Beach Road (Thanon Thawiwong) and Thanon Rat- U-Thit 200 Pi (the last bit means "200 years" and is pronounced song roi pee) running parallel a few hundred meters inland. A handful of streets and sois (alleys) connect the two, the largest and most central of which is Bangla Road (Thanon Bangla).

One of Patong's main attractions, besides the nightlife, is shopping. Many small stalls and markets line the streets offering everything from t-shirts and clothing, silk, carvings, souvenirs, shoes, CDs and DVDs. Bargain hard for anything you buy from these stalls, as everything is negotiable in Patong and starting prices are often ridiculously high. Get a local to help you haggle rather than complain about it. Jungceylon, Thanon Rat-U-Thit 200P (near the northern end of Bangla Road) www.jungceylon.com) is Patong's first full-fledged modern air-con shopping mall, with 200 shops, integrated hotel, etc.