Twenty-year old houses and centuries-old buildings, mirrored shopping centers and barracks of local residents ... All of this will be greeted by the island of Phuket. This island is absolutely amazing place that will conquer you and make you come back more than once.
Here many Thais come from different provinces in search of work, and from all over the world tourists also flock here, making the island a living fountain of holiday emotions.
On the streets of the island, on both sides of the road, drivers of numerous cars and scooters are escorted by palm trees, and almost from any point of Phuket, mountains, hills or the Buddha rise in front of the horizon. There is on the island the highest mountain, on it and built a statue of Buddha larger than 40 meters in height. Photographers and tourists trying to make a good photo for memory, will be a little disappointed - the view is constantly closed by electric wires.
Almost every house is decorated. They are most beautifully decorated: flowers, food and drinks, painted with bright colors and gilding.
With regard to buildings - most of them have lost some of their original appearance and aesthetics. The walls of the houses are covered with mold, a fungus of dark color. And all because of the high humidity of air (from 75 to 100%), which is held here all year round.
What kind of buildings will you see in Phuket?
Barracks
So among themselves some tourists call dwellings of local, not the richest and prosperous. This house often consists of one or two rooms. She also has a bedroom, a kitchen, a living room, a nursery ... If there are two rooms, we often see the use of the second as a store. In the morning, the shutters go up (imagine, not the door, but the shutters on the whole wall in the house), and anyone can come and buy water, chips, cigarettes and other small things. Thailand is generally considered a poor agrarian country, so such "barracks" - not uncommon.
Two-storeyed handsome houses
Such houses are the brightest, notable, and comfortable. Apartments in them are often two-story. The second floor sometimes serves as a dwelling, and the first floor is a cafe, a shop, a canteen. Many of them are painted in different colors, so they look unusual, bright and interesting.
Condominium - here are called houses from 4 floors and above, which unite many apartments. Kitchens are most often absent in such buildings, but rooms, balconies, bathrooms are spacious enough, with repair and air conditioning. Are not very expensive, so very popular with some tourists and people from other countries who work and live on the island.
Private houses
These areas we take out a separate point, since there are also normal private houses on the island, with two or more floors, there are even villas. It's not about those villas that tourists offer for a lot of money. In these houses live mostly local or working foreigners.
Hotels, Hostels
Since Phuket is a very tourist place, it is impossible to count the number of different hotels, especially hostels. For every taste, color and purse, you can find accommodation for a tourist who is eager to relax on a paradise island.
Temples
A special kind of buildings, which could not be silenced.Their temples are bright, decorated immodestly, in gilding, flowers, with Buddha figures, sacred elephants, houses for spirits. Such a house for prayer differs significantly from the usual Orthodox Church. To say more precisely, it is absolutely different from it. As externally - a bright color, a lot of roof levels, are made in a special Thai style, which differs from Hindu and Chinese temples. So filling: an infinite number of Buddha statues in all its sacred positions (Buddha recumbent, sedentary, etc.), statues of elephants, monks.
The architecture of Phuket is diverse. Absolutely Thai style of buildings mixed with very modern high-rise buildings-giants. This island is also striving to surprise you with the poverty of some buildings and the bright elevation of temples, and Buddha looks at it with his calm gaze.
First photo of mine, others taken here