{"id":9193,"date":"2024-10-03T10:48:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T08:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguintravels.gr\/posts\/9193\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T07:20:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T05:20:05","slug":"71-information-you-want-to-know-about-phuket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguintravels.gr\/en\/71-information-you-want-to-know-about-phuket\/","title":{"rendered":"7+1 Information you want to know about Phuket&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1.Phuket is a very beautiful island, a little smaller than Singapore.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2.The name Phuket seems to be derived from the Malay word bukit, which means &#8220;hill&#8221;, since this is what the island looks like when you see it from a distance!<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3.70% of Phuket is covered by mountains stretching from north to south and the remaining 30% consists of plains located in the central and eastern part of the island.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4.Phuket has a tropical climate and more specifically a monsoon climate, with a dry season from November to April and a rainy season from May to October.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5.As in most of Thailand, the majority of the population is Buddhist, but Phuket has a significant number of Muslims (about 30%), mostly descendants of the sea nomads who once lived on the island.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6.The official language is Thai, but English is widely spoken.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7.The time zone of Thailand or Indochina time is GMT+7<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">8.A trip to Thailand can&#8217;t be complete without the unforgettable street food, which is hard to avoid on the streets of Phuket anyway!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.Phuket is a very beautiful island, a little smaller than Singapore. 2.The name Phuket seems to be derived from the Malay word bukit, which means &#8220;hill&#8221;, since this is what the island looks like when you see it from a distance! 3.70% of Phuket is covered by mountains stretching from north to south and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[438,434,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-destinations-en","category-reviews-ratings-en","category-travel-guides-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguintravels.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguintravels.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguintravels.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguintravels.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguintravels.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguintravels.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9194,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguintravels.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9193\/revisions\/9194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguintravels.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguintravels.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguintravels.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguintravels.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}