Most people meet Phuket through a hotel window in Patong and leave thinking that's all there is. It isn't. The island has a real town with a Chinese-Thai soul, temples where locals actually pray, rainforest with gibbons, and some of the best day trips in the Andaman Sea.
These twenty routes are the ones I keep recommending to friends. Some take a couple of hours, some a full day on a boat. Rules, opening seasons and park fees change often here, so treat the details as a starting point and check before you go.
