Phuket is the largest island in Thailand, located on the Andaman Sea in southern Thailand, there is a chain of mountains in the west of the island and start from the north to the south, known as the Mountains of Phuket, which reaches a height (1,736 feet) above sea level. The area of Bukit total 570 square kilometers (220 square miles), including small islands, and away from the island's capital, Bangkok, about 863 km (536 miles) south of Bangkok, an area of about 543 square kilometers (210 square miles), with the exception of the small islands. Followed to maintain approximately 39 small island and the estimated length of the island of Phuket from north to south and 48 kilometers (30 miles). [1]
In the mountains of Phuket about 70% of the area of the island and the remaining 30% is located in the plains of central and eastern parts of the island and the island contains no major rivers and contains some tables.
Forests cover and rubber plantations, palm oil, nearly 60% of the area of the island. The west coast where many of the beaches and Rumaila called the most popular beach in Phuket's Patong Beach, which is located on the west coast.
Among the most important characteristic of this island and the presence of some of the most beautiful dive sites on a global level as well as the development of diving tourism, cruises are refined and suitable for all can be for divers choose between trips to dive for one day with the provision of meals and drinks on board the boats are equipped with all the amenities, recreation and between trips to several days or even weeks scouring the waters of Phuket Island and nearby small islands, which are characterized by the diversity of its coral reefs and its objects of various marine sea turtles and sharks of all kinds.
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