ACTIVITIES IN PHUKET

 Phuket has very good golf courses, Blue Canyon - Lakes Course, Blue Canyon - Canyon Course, Mission Hills, Phuket Laguna, Phuket Golf Club, Banyan Tree Golf Club, Phuket Country Club, Loch Palm Golf Club, Red Mountain Golf Course, Phunaka Golf Course. All of which have been designed to take full advantage of the island's tropical climate and unique topography. Many visitors come solely to play golf around the beautifully landscaped courses, which make use of the local abundance of water and trees to full extent. Many of the courses ensure that accompanying family members rarely complain about being left to bathe by the pool or on the beach. Standards are high and the holes are challenging enough to get new and experienced players thinking. Some of the courses have even been used for international PGA Tournaments and World Championships.

 It's not something you'll see everyday in Bognor, Berlin or Basildon, but you will walk past a shop on a main road and inside is a row of comfy chairs with footstools, each occupied by a tourist with trousers rolled up around their knees. At their feet kneel Thai women, kneading those overworked hoofs while a little further along is a similar place, but here the tourists are lying flat out on comfortable mats, being pulled and stretched into star shaped objects again by local Thai women. All the tourists have their eyes shut and seem to be in total ecstasy.