| | | All over Thailand, the three-day Songkran holiday
is celebrated in a riot of intense but totally friendly street battles with water
pistols, buckets, garden hoses, even fire hoses. Everyone – but everyone
– gets wet as people mark the arrival of the traditional Thai New Year. In
Phuket, Songkran is extra special because the festivities also coincide with the
arrival on the island of hundreds of big bike fans and their extreme machines
for the annual Phuket Bike Week. Read
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all really started when Phuket’s first luxury spa, the Banyan Tree Spa, opened
in 1995. Seeing how popular this venture was, many island businessmen jumped in.
Spas opened in resorts and hotels. Stand-alone day spas popped up like
mushrooms on empty plots of land all over the island. In this month’s Health
column, Phuket.Com looks at the growth and increasing maturity of the island’s
spa industry.
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| Do
practice your smile: Smiling is consider one of the trademarks of the Thai people
– this is, after all, The Land of Smiles. Thais tend to smile about anything.
You may find it a bit odd at first to have complete strangers smiling at you on
the bus, in a restaurant or passing on the street. But to Thais, smiling is a
friendly, quiet, Thai way to say hello. So smile back; it’s polite and it
will make you feel happier and more relaxed, too.
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