Famous for its nightlife and post-tsunami media coverage, Patong is also a centre of growing interest for art shopping in Phuket with many talented artists creating originals and reproductions of famous paintings. Boutique art gallery World of Paintings showcases stunning traditional, contemporary, and mixed media works by talented and well-known artists in a sophisticated art space located at Phuket Grand Tropicana Hotel in Patong.

Patong - a good place to find outstanding and original pieces of Thai artwork

Other Patong stores worth a visit are Rosewood Lamps (tel. 66 (0)76 344 376) for handicrafts and textiles; New Collection (tel. 66 (0) 76 344 786), an exhibition of Kashmiri and Oriental carpets, and other fine north Indian and Thai arts; and Tung Thong Antiques (tel. 66 0 76 344 663), near Patong Beach Hotel, which offers rare ceramic relics from Cambodia, Burma, China and rural Thailand.