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Dancer in the Dark

Transvestites and She-males (good times)

Written by Jameskyoto on March 11, 2004

  • If your worldly travels take you so far as to Phuket, why not take in some local color of a different form? The island’s cabaret shows are not to be missed! These amazing performances...
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Phuket Town

Survival Tips for Living in Phuket

Written by Nadstar on February 11, 2004

  • This is unlike any other guide to a foreign city. This guide serves to be as honest and to the point as possible. Unlike other travel guides, the author has actually lived in the said...
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Lillies in bloom

Thai Ways

Written by Nadstar on December 18, 2003

  • The longer we stay here, the more I realise the ways of the Thai person – they pride themselves on the fact that they’ve never been colonised, never taken over by any foreign governing body,...
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Moken Tsunami Shelter

Moken

Written by neworleanstraveler on May 26, 2006

  • Phuket Island is tropical, vibrant, serene, and thousands of other adjectives that are all strikingly accurate. Yet, it is hard to believe that just 6 months earlier to the day of my visit, such painful loss...
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Thai Boat

Phuket Island

Written by paul c. on June 26, 2000

  • The approach is spectacular -- lush jungles and savage mountain peaks that jut out of the water. They have no gradual incline but rather they are perpendicular to the water with rounded peaks....
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Baby elephant

Laguna Resort - Five Hotels in One

Written by jabela on December 25, 2005

  • It was the first time I stayed at a resort with five hotels on it. Officially you're supposed to pay to use the facilities of the other hotels, but there appears to be a grey line. All the...
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Patong Beach (just one man's review)

Written by Jameskyoto on March 10, 2004

  • Patong Beach is the largest and far and away the most developed beach on Phuket’s Island shoreline. A first-time visitor to Phuket should check out this beach if for no other reason than to compare...
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Surin Sunset

Reflections

Written by Nadstar on February 3, 2004

  • It has been a very busy couple of weeks, with Christmas then New Year’s and now the Chinese New Year. And with it has brought many different nations gracing our beautiful grounds at the resort....
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Shopping day!

Written by Nadstar on December 12, 2003

  • This is what happens on our monthly trip to Patong, "Shopper's Heaven" - markets that run for kilometres along the beach-facing main road in the busy town of Patong. I have always protested the...
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Bird's Eye of Patong

A day in the life...

Written by Nadstar on November 21, 2003

  • As I reflect on our year here, there are a couple of clichés that ring true. The first would be "same, same but different" - seen painted on many a beachside restaurant. This phrase stemmed from non-Thais trying...
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