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Still with a few hotels and bars and restaurants, the Nai Harn Beach gives the feeling of Phuket many years ago. Being an unspoiled beach with refines sand and clear water makes it one of the island's nicest beaches. Rawai beach was the first to be regularly visited by Thai tourists to Phuket long before foreigners were a common sight in Phuket. This is a favorite picnic spot for Thais sitting under the trees that shade this narrow but picturesque beach. Across the road are many Thai and European restaurants where many of the residents like to spend their evenings or having diners. |
| Not the perfect place for swimming, but shallow water makes it safe for children and it is protected from the wind. |
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The Rawai area is famous for the Promthep Cape viewpoint and a Sea Gypsy village. There are many long tail boats and speed boats anchored here that you can hire to make trips to the nearby islands. Not far on the road going back to Phuket is the Seashell Museum if you are a collector, Rawai is also one of the few places where you can buy shells.
Northeast of Rawai, lays Chalong–Phuket's principal boat anchorage. Boats can be chartered to go to some small island south of Phuket. |
| A number of restaurants are on the road leading to the bay. Chalong Bay has a long flat, shallow, muddy bottom, at ebb tide, waters recede as much as one kilometer. It is very picturesque but not for swimming. Panwa Beach is where rubber and palm plantations still outnumber the resorts. Visitors to this area can inspect several hundred exotic, grotesque, and flamboyantly colorful marine species at the Phuket’s Aquarium. |
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