Again it is time for the annual Vegetarian Festival in Phuket. The festivities will start on the 18th of October and last till the 26th. The main features are of course vegetarian food, chants, thousands of firecrackers and processions around town.
The Vegetarian Festival is taken place in Phuket for more than 150 years now. The [...]
Everybody was looking forward to it for a long time. The probably most popular party of the year: Mikels Birthday/Mikel and Toms Pool and Costume Party. The theme this year was: Come as you want, but make it special! So much room for creativity was appreciated and some wonderful ideas were born. Even though the wheather [...]
Same procedure as every year. Once again in the green season there comes the time when each of our six Sea Bees boats will need a little care here and there. So all boats are in turn taken on the drydock for a while and an extensive checkup will be done. Also this is the [...]
Diane and Ross from New Zealand renewed their wedding vows at Palm Garden on August 1st. The yoga sala was turned into a romantic wedding venue with the waterfall, orchids, music and flowing white chiffon. Kingston was the ring bearer and slept through the entire celebration. After dinner and drinks the honeymooners went to Cape [...]
Yesterday a green sea turtle, nicknamed in Thai Loong (“uncle”) was released back into the ocean after being treated for injuries in the last couple of month at Phuket Marine Biological Center.
The turtle is approximately 50 years old 1 meter long and weighs 120 kg. Phuket based Marine inspectors rescued the animal of Koh Bon [...]
Thailands Sailing Season has begun with Phukets Raceweek. The summer season regattas have started last weekend with the first races in different categories for the Asian Yachting Grand Prix Champion. Despite wind and rain on the starting day the boats where leaving the harbour and the regatta went through. Todays Phang Nga Bay Regatta will [...]
Next Wednesday the 22nd of July you will be able to see a partial blocking of the sun by the moon, called solar eclipse. It will be taking place in the morning reaching the maximum blockage of 20% at 8.10 a.m. There will be viewing points in Phuket were eye protection will be provided for [...]
Last Saturday the Staff from the Palm Garden Resort came together to celebrate a whole lot of things. First of all it was time again for a general get together of course. Second our gardener Khun Boonruang had his birthday that day, and last but not least we have new staff members to welcome.
So enough [...]
Rajabhat University of Phuket launches a new international studies program: hotel and hospitality managment. The studies will be according to internatonal standards the University spokesman Dr Holobs says. Beginnig in november the program will the reaction to the fact that phuket has a very high demand of hotel staff that meets international quality standards. It [...]
Tourism in Thailand is many years old. Upswings, downswings, catastrophes, hypes and politics. What has been stable over the years has been the whether. The north-eastern monsoon winds from November till April are warm and bring very little rain. Around end of April the wind changes and Phuket has south-western monsoon setting in, bringing some [...]
