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- Southern Thailand is a destination for a great time vacation,

holiday, beach vacation, jungle trekking, caving, kayaking, canoeing or climbing the limestone rocks in Krabi. Explore some national park, sunbath on the beach. Do some surfing, water-ski, paragliding, jet ski or maybe some scuba diving in the Andaman Sea, it could also be just the right place for your retirement, all available in the south of Thailand.

South Thailand, in particular Phuket is the place to get your great tattoo in one of the tattoo shops and tattoo parlors, tattoos in Thailand are much cheaper than anywhere and of excellent quality. Phuket bars in particular at Patong are legendary, so are Phuket girls. If you are out for adventure you can do camping on Ko Phi Phi beach or elsewhere in Thailand, but we wont suggest this type of adventure it can end in a nightmare.

In our website find several maps of south Thailand. Over hundred photos and videos of south Thailand and the islands are here. Exploring south Thailand īs bizarre limestone islands in the Phang Nga Bay, Krabi and Trang which excited movie fans in James Bond, The Beach and other creative celluloid and movie making location is a real pleasure.

Nightlife is absolute hot stuff with countless nightclubs bars and other nightlife places, the Thai girls will turn up the sexy heat on you, trust me ! If you are on the lesbian or gay direction some positive surprises are waiting.

Maybe you like to play Hannibal or the Maharaja of wherever on the back of the elephant exploring the jungle or make a "live aboard" diving trip 

South Thailand is for sure a excellent travel destination and not only for beach vacation as you can see at the photos and pictures in our website. For about 80 videos click videos in the left menu. Aside from the normal popular southern Thailand travel destinations such as Phi Phi, Koh Samui, Khao Lak, Phuket, Phang Nga, Krabi, Trang and the Tarutao Archipelago be have some specials on scuba diving.

Phuket and the area around is great for scuba diving in particular around the Similan Islands, Surin Islands and into southern Myanmar via liveaboard out of Phuket.

Accommodation, Phuket hotels and beach resorts for your Thailand holiday are available for almost any wallet size. You can find several maps of southern Thailand here. You wont get confronted with any kind of insurgents or terrorism in south Thailand, nor civil war or whatever.

This Thailand insurgent problem are only on local level at the border with Malaysia and have social and religious background, more on this subject below.

For southern Thailand travel there are countless flights to Thailand and some special travel agents offer business class and first class flights. Tourism in south Thailand is smooth as it has ever been and was also not affected by the Bangkok airport blockade some times ago. More suggestions and information for great vacation, holiday and outdoor adventures in southern Thailand you can find in our website.

- For certain good reasons there is some concern on security in southern Thailand

in particular since from time to time bombs explode and people get killed for different reasons. There are religious reasons, Muslim - Buddhist, administrative reasons, the government agencies in Bangkok forcefully took lot of land away from the local people in the very southern Thai provinces along the Malaysian border.

There is also still a unsolved dispute between Thailand and Saudi Arabia on a grand theft of jewelry from a Thai worker years ago in the house of the now Saudi King. Saudi Arabia is a major supplier of funds to the southern Thai rebels via welfare organizations.

That is the basic setting and some terrorism in southern Thailand has again erupted out of this. Smaller problems have been on all the time. But by all means there is no civil war in southern Thailand and the problem is only at the southernmost provinces bordering directly to Malaysia, no spillover to any other parts in Thailand. In the present conflict and terrorism in southern Thailand its a very small group of southern Thailand people supported by other Muslims on the Malaysian side.

This small groups actually do all this violence in the conflict in southern Thailand and sometimes they experience revenge from Thai military and other people who naturally don't step aside when their friends get killed. No violence ever was brought from southern Thailand into the rest of Thailand, the most north the conflict was carried to Hat Yai a very popular tourist and recreational destination in southern Thailand.

That also means there is absolute no high risk of civil war in southern Thailand. Actually this problems between Muslim and Buddhist and about ownership on land is all along the timeline in the history of southern

Thailand. The tourist centers in southern Thailand north of Hat Yai such as Phuket is about 450 km north of Hat Yai, Krabi and Trang are in between have never experienced any problem in terms of the insurgency in the very south of Thailand.

The map of southern Thailand shows very clear where the conflict zones are. It is really quite strange to talk of civil war in

- Beaches of southern Thailand

Similan

The Similan islands are a absolute top diving destination with some of the beaches in southern Thailand best accessible by Similan liveaboard out of Phuket since there is no Similan hotel on the islands, only a few cottages on the main island which are almost always full. This is a Thai marine national park means no buildings etc. The Similan can be also explored by a day trip out of Khao Lak and Phuket. Phuket

Phuket is probably the biggest attraction in southern Thailand with great beaches. Phuket stands for beach, great resorts and other accommodations and a nightlife, mainly at Patong and Phuket town which really deserves to be called nightlife. There are lots of things to do at Phuket and the area around. Krabi Krabi in southern Thailand is the right destination for great holidays with pristine and empty southern Thailand beaches, beautiful Krabi islands, jungle for trekking, rock climbing on limestone walls as shown in the picture above and lots of other activities. Pictured here is Railay Beach at Krabi - Ao Nang. Ranong Ranong is the main harbor on Thailand's west coast, mainly used for fishing and popular for the visa run. Koh Yao Koh Yao means Yao Island, is a typical island destination off the east cost of Phuket, plenty of beaches, but not much to do. Koh Samui Samui or Koh Samui is a typical Thailand islands destination with lots of tourists, plenty of beaches, lots of Samui hotels and beach resorts, but it looks like the island is somehow overcrowded. Anyway some beaches are still not as full and Koh Samui weather is pleasant all over the year. There are also great beach resorts at Samui, more about beaches.

Elephant jungle tour at Koh Samui

A Elephant jungle tour at Koh Samui southern Thailand is a real attraction for the whole family.

Its this Thailand attraction is also available at almost any tourist place. Here is a elephant ride near Chiang Mai.

A Elephant jungle tour is very expensive in Phuket, they want about baht 900,- per head,

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