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Phuket offers extraordinary variety of different landscape forms with rocky promontories, long sand beaches, limestone cliffs, wooded hills and mountains, lagoons and tropical vegetation of any kind. The west coast Phukets with snow-white dream beaches, the rain forest of the Khao Phra Thaeo of national park in the north or the Mangrovensuempfe of Koh Siray in the south - there are many different landscapes for the visitor to discover unbelievably. Phuket is indeed a tropical miracle country, which has to offer something for each taste.
Phuket, at which west coast of Thailand lying, has itself in the course of the years to one of the most popular destinations in completely Southeast Asia developed. Many, which spent their vacation once here, come year by year again to Phuket. Despite constantly rising numbers of visitors Phuket did not overflow. The large tourist masses concentrate on some few centers. Apart of it still many quiet angles wait for their discovery.
Phuket is of Thailand largest island at 48 km length from north to south and 21 km broad of west after east Phuket belonged without a doubt to the landscape most beautiful regions of Thailand. The special attraction Phukets is appropriate for over-rampantly grown mountains in the contrast of tropical dream beaches and with rain forest. Approx.. 70% of Phukets land mass consist of mountain country shank. The highest mountain is May Tao Sip Song with 529 m.
Phuket has a tropical damp climate, which is affected mainly by monsoon hoists, which come seasonally from different directions. The land mass of Asia more is heated from April to Septembers by direct sunbeams than the Indian ocean. Thus moistens, pulled hot air over Phuket and Thailand away after northeast. This so-called southwest monsoon brings rain and partly also storms after Phuket. Starting from October the Indian ocean more warmed up than the asiatic land mass and the northeast monsoon brings cooler, dry air after Phuket.
From November to February the most pleasant temperatures and it prevail are practically rain-free on Phuket. Is from March to June then the hot season with partly violent rain and thunderstorm showers. Also during the so-called rain time in the summer months a Phuket is quite pleasant vacation, since it does not rain on many days at all. If it rains, then mostly in the late afternoon or at the night and mostly not longer than 1 hour.
Phuket has approx.. 200000 inhabitants. The largest part of the native population lives 70000 in the capital Phuket Town on the eastern part of the island, on it alone. The population sits down together from Thais, which came from the mainland, to Chinese, who came to working in the tin mines, Muslims of Malaysian origin, those primarily on the rubber plantage worked and Chao Nam, the so-called sea-gypsies, who probably already live in this area since thousand years and more. Chinese make approx.. 35% of the population of island out like everywhere in Asia went through the Chinese a transformation from the cheap worker to the dealer and businessman. They differ from the Chinese in Bangkok, Singapore or Malaysia, because by a marrying with native Thais they are as far as possible integrated into the Thai culture.
The influence of the Indonesian Indonesisch-Malaii culture is today still pervasive in the form of trachten, language, art and religion. Approximately 35% the Thais on Phuket are Muslims. They live in larger settlements in the northern part of the island and work primarily than rice farmers and on rubber plantage. One of the most interesting subpopulations on Phuket are the sea-gypsies. Traditionally a nomadisches people, who pulled from place to place. Goods at a place biological resources exhausted, continued to pull them to the next place. Their history and culture are only difficult to pursue, since they do not possess a writing language. It is accepted, which they come from the Andamanen or Nicobaren, island group, which today to India belong. They are generally dark membranous and have black, curly hair. They speak their own language and follow her own animistisch religion sea-gypsy exist in three groups of peoples. The Moken lives also today still the original, nomadischen life-style and is primarily on the islands north of Phuket to be found. The Orung sound and the Moklen established itself against it at some coastal regions Phuket's. On Phuket there are three sea-gypsy settlements: At the Rawai Beach, to the Sapamkueste and on the island Siray, which by a bridge with Phuket Town is connected.