Thai Airways (08 ) has flights from Heathrow to Phuket via Bangkok from £895 Singapore Airlines (020 8961 6993 ) has flights via Singapore from £1,350. 'Catching the Sun’ by Tony Parsons is published in paperback by HarperFiction (£7.99).And I was kept waiting for three hours on arriving at the airport. It’s one of those places I’d always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts. They’re incredibly elaborate – just unbelievable. There is a waterside gipsy village in Koh Sirey where the locals make beautiful sea chimes out of hundreds of shells. The nightlife in Bangla Road in Patong – it’s Phuket at its crassest. The rehabilitation project reintroduces them to the wild and is an incredibly moving place. A lot of gibbons are dressed up as cowboys and the like in the touristy part of Phuket but they don’t much like posing with tourists when they reach maturity so get dumped by the roadside.
To the Gibbon Rehabilitation Project near Bang Pae waterfall. WHERE WOULD YOU SEND A FIRST-TIME VISITOR? It’s very much run for locals and they serve the catch of the day, which might be lobster, white snapper or squid. There are a handful of barbecue seafood shacks on the beach at Hat Nai Yang, which is a fabulous place to have dinner. It’s a tiny little place on a residential street, but serves coffee and cakes – and excellent Chinese food. I like the Portuguese-style Pirrera Café Bar (214558) in Phuket Town.
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