🌊 Southeast Asia

Activities
Phuket

Canoe into Phang Nga’s hidden lagoons, dive, meet retired elephants and learn to cook Thai.

⚠️ Timetables, opening hours, prices and access conditions may change without notice, for reasons beyond our control (season, weather, decisions by operators, venues or local authorities). Before every trip, check the information with the relevant authorities and service providers.

β›΅Sea, diving & excursions5 activities
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Sea Bees Diving
Chalong

Dive centre near Chalong Pier for more than 20 years, offering day trips, courses and liveaboard safaris to the Similan Islands.

DivingSimilan
🌐Official websitesea-bees.comβ†’
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Sunrise Divers
Karon

Karon dive centre offering PADI and SSI courses, day trips to Racha, Shark Point and the King Cruiser wreck, plus Similan liveaboards.

DivingLiveaboards
🌐Official websitesunrise-divers.comβ†’
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John Gray’s Sea Canoe
Phang Nga Bay (from Phuket)

Sea-cave canoeing pioneer in Phang Nga Bay since 1983, paddling into hidden hongs at dusk among bioluminescent plankton.

CanoeingPhang Nga
🌐Official websitejohngray-seacanoe.comβ†’
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Simba Sea Trips
Boat Lagoon Marina

Small-group trips capped at 18 adults and private charters to Phi Phi, Phang Nga Bay, the Racha islands or Koh Yao, running since 2005.

Small groupsPhi Phi
🌐Official websitesimbaseatrips.comβ†’
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Phuket Sail Tours
Ao Po (east coast)

Sunrise and sunset speedboat trips to Phi Phi and private cruises in Phang Nga Bay, departing from Ao Po on the east coast.

SpeedboatSunset
🌐Official websitephuketsailtours.comβ†’
🌿Nature & thrills2 activities
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Phuket Elephant Sanctuary
Thalang (edge of Khao Phra Thaeo)

Sanctuary founded in 2016 for retired working elephants on 30 acres of jungle, with observation-only guided visits and no contact with the animals.

EthicalElephants
🌐Official websitephuketelephantsanctuary.orgβ†’
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Gibbon Rehabilitation Project
Thalang (north-east of the island)

Conservation project rescuing and rehabilitating gibbons since 1992 in Phuket’s last remaining rainforest; visits by booking.

WildlifeConservation
🌐Official websitegibbonproject.orgβ†’
πŸ›οΈCulture, visits & local flavours3 activities
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Phuketian Thai Cooking Class
Takuapa Road, Phuket Town

Four-hour cooking class with a market visit, where you prepare local dishes such as Phuket noodles or stir-fried Hokkien noodles.

Cooking classMarket
🌐Official websitephuketianthaicookingclass.comβ†’
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Blue Elephant Cooking School Phuket
Krabi Road, Old Town

Half-day classes in a heritage mansion: a market visit in the morning session, Thai desserts in the afternoon and a certificate for every student.

Cooking classHeritage mansion
🌐Official websiteblueelephant.comβ†’
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Tiger Muay Thai
Chalong

Large training camp with more than 150 classes a week in Muay Thai, plus boxing, MMA, yoga and fitness, for beginners to advanced fighters.

Muay ThaiSport
🌐Official websitetigermuaythai.comβ†’