Chalong Bay is the main public marina in Phuket, if you come in with a boat from outside Thailand you better come in here. The formalities are done quickly and a safe anchor is guaranteed. Beside the pier a couple of good restaurants, small hotels, supply shops, travel agents, dive supply outlets and transport facilities offer their services. Nearby, you can rent houses for short or long term and the distance to Patong Beach and Phuket Town is only 20 minutes by car.
If you turn right at the Chalong circle, towards Phuket City, you also will find Family (Israeli run) restaurant - the environment is a little strange but the food not bad further up on the left is a Swiss restaurant – the Flintstone Bakery - where you can get all the bread you missed. In the Fisherman Way Business Park – a short distance further on - you can stock your wine selection and buy chocolate creations from Belgium.
Around the Chalong circle are plenty of restaurants, naturally you can find Thai restaurants, Seafood restaurants, plus a Swiss restaurant, Israeli restaurant, French restaurant, Indian restaurant -not very good but many mosquito - a bakery with excellent bread, sausages, sandwiches, goulash and cakes. Other restaurants at Chalong Bay offer other food of various types and quality. Lately a couple of new apartment buildings have been finished, some have nice modern styling but most have the usual quite ugly styling common everywhere in Thailand.
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At Chalong Bay after the school, turn right to have a look for the best orchid nursery in southern Thailand. The nursery is run by a Thai - German couple. The colors of the countless orchids will make you stay for a while. They have information leaflets in English, German, Russian and Scandinavian language.
Actually Phuket island tripled the population since 1998, form everywhere in Thailand the people are moving into Phuket to look for a better life in the tourism industry. Naturally this brings some money for the people but also a lot of problems, especially traffic problems, the roads are clogged with cars and motocycles -small motorbikes- unbelievable accidents happen. About 200.000 accidents per year, mainly with motocyc are about 20 times as much as in a similar sized and populated area in the "West" this is mainly because no one cares on any traffic rules.
