Phuket Ika Blog

Phuket, Thailand, is generally referred to as the ‘Pearl of South’ and is the biggest island in Thailand. Phuket Island takes 48 kilometers from north to south and 21 kilometers from east to west. Phuket is surrounded by a chain of mountains and valleys mostly from a north-south range running down the west coast. This amounts for about 70% of the land area. The highest peak, Mai Tao Sip Song is 529 meters. The other 30% of the island is plain ground situated principally in the central and eastern portions of the island. Locating in the Andaman Sea off southern Thailand’s west coast, the island’s territory is incredibly mixed, with stony cape, lengthy broad sandy beaches, limestone precipice, forested hills, river estuaries, lagoons, and tropical vegetation of all kinds

The island offers many various looks and feels for you to reveal and delight. Kata Beach with its wonderful tropical landscape compared with the stately casuarinas that are found on Nai Yang Beach just a few kilometers north. The triple canopy rainforest of Khao Phra Thaeo National Park to the mire flats and mangrove swamps of Koh Siray. Limestone outcroppings line the east coast and steady granite boulders on the west. Phuket is actually a tropical wonderland and offers something for just about everyone.