AROUND PHUKET ISLAND

This account of the island starts at the top of Phuket’s most appealing coast and follows an anti-clockwise route around the perimeter, through the chief tourist centers. The west coast boasts a series of long sandy beaches punctuated by shear rocky headlands, unprotected form the monsoons and consequently quite rough and windswept from May to October. Shadowed by the mainland, the east coast is much more sheltered and thus makes a convenient docking point for ships, but is hopeless for swimming and sunbathing.

List of Beaches around Phuket Island

Phuket Town

Hat Mai Khao Beach

Hat Nai Yang Beach

Hat Nai Thon Beach

Ao Bang Tao

Hat Surin Beach (Ao Pansea)

Hat Kamala and Laem Singh Beach

Ao Patong

Ao Karon

Ao Kata Yai and Ao Kata Noi

Hat Nai Harn and Laem Promthep

Hat Rawai and its islands

The East Coast of Phuket