No? Well, that’s too bad. As you may know, I live in Phuket, so I threw together some info about Phuket shopping for y’all.

Phuket is a great tourist destination. The island is well known for its beaches and sunshine, but it is no less so when we talk about Phuket shopping. You can find the products or clothes for designer fakes, electrical goods and so much more. Phuket shopping is not at all expensive when compared with the West.

If you wish to go for Phuket shopping, there are many options available, among them Central Festival in Phuket Town, which one of the biggest. You can get all types of goods at this place. You can even find larger stores, such as Zara.

There are many large retail outlets where you can get goods such as designer perfumes and clothes. You even have the facilities to shop for the electrical goods such as DVDs, CDs and fans. Products like videogame can be found all over Phuketfor cheap prices.

Jungceylon is another Phuket shopping mall near Central Festival. It is a very large shopping mall and you can find more electrical good shops and stalls. You can also find many restaurants, which are better than those in Central. There are numerous market stalls too.

On weekends, there are many things in the Phuket market that you can buy very cheap, but you have to be good at bargaining. You can get your mits on T-shirts shoes, DVDs, CDs and even pets.

While strolling along the road in Patong, you will find many vendors selling products, such as watches and suits. Vendors in the Patong often have low-quality good going for high prices, so be vigilant when you’re out on the streets.

You buy fakes and take them back home at your own risk. If you want to have a suit made for yourself, then go to Bangkok, as you will find better quality tailors.

Phuket shopping is great for every and you’ll be sure to come away with heaps of bargains.

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Maintaining a party lifestyle and keeping fit at the same time is not the easiest task for anyone in Thailand. Fear not, for there are musical movements sweeping across the nation that can offer the biggest party beats whilst helping you to stay fit at the same time. Obviously, excessive drinking and smoking are not going to help the cause, but the art of dance in the 21st century can go some way to contributing to a healthy lifestyle. Dancing is, after all, one of the most energetic past-times for the lazy bi-products of the digital age.

Use this guide to the hottest genres sweeping across Thailand and then go and dance yourselves senseless.

Drum ‘n’ bass
One of the most exciting musical genres from the UK now has an established following in Thailand. The music is based around break-beats – think hip hop, but faster, and more energetic. As a product of hardcore music, drum ‘n’ bass is fast-paced and energetic. It’s also a lot of fun. Get ready to sweat like you’ve never sweat before in a steaming room full of clubbers dancing to as if there was no tomorrow. Drum ‘n’ bass has a lot of scope for clubbing and keeping relatively fit at the same time, if only because of the carefree, uninhibited way it compels people to dance. Hot-spots in Bangkok right now include the Vertigo events at Astra, RCA. Be sure to check out The Specialist, one of Bangkok’s hottest DJ imports, fresh from the UK.

House and trance
Slightly more conventional, but just as athletic, house and trance are musical genres crafted around the generic four-four beat. Dance moves are more thoughtful, and may require some practice. Regular attendees to house and trance nights have been known to dance for periods of up to 12 hours without rest. Imagine step-aerobics, but with a few more smiles and a bit more jumping. Don’t be afraid to jump around like a maniac if you hear some crowd pleasing sounds. Happening places in Bangkok include Glow Bar and Bed Supperclub in Sukhumvit.

Electro
Less conventional than house and trance, electro music is deep, down and dirty. The bass-lines are low, and the music is pounding. Dance-floors have been known to erupt into spontaneous chaos to the likes of New Order’s Blue Monday and Josh Wink’s Higher State of Consciousness, as was the case when Ladytron’s Reuben Wu graced the decks at Time:Out, RCA, in May. For those that like to dance the night away without a hint of pretension, scope out your local electro scene and sweat the calories out of your body.

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Hear me out before you scoff at this idea. There are lots of people doing this and the reason they are making money online is because there are so many bad, poorly optimized travel websites all over the world. The idea I’m suggesting is that you go and live somewhere – anywhere you’ve always wanted to go – and make a website or blog about that place.

Let’s take Thailand as an example. I’ve spent a lot of time in Thailand and I’ve seen the large number of websites and blogs that people make about the place. However, most of these sites aren’t fully utilized for making money online. They’re hobby sites, so to speak, and people spend hours of their time writing content for them without getting any money in return.

What’s to stop you visiting one of Thailand’s major cities, spending a bit of time getting to know the place and then writing useful content to put on a site? Obviously if you choose somewhere such as Bangkok you’re going to come up against stiff competition, but if you go to Chiang Mai, Samui, Pattaya or somewhere equally on the tourist radar but not so much the focal point, you have a better chance of success.

I did this with my Phuket website. I lived on the island and spent time compiling content about the beaches, restaurants, nightlife, hotels and so on. Sure, it takes time, but if you have gained a significant amount of blogging knowledge from running other sites, then it makes sense to put this to good use – and there is nothing better than traveling the world and doing it.

Some people blog so that they will have more opportunities to travel, but there’s nothing to stop a person combining blogging and travel and making a decent living off of it.

Even if you don’t stay in one place for too long, you can do a lot of research on the Internet, look at what your competition is doing and then do it better. A lot of travel websites are dated and tired.

If you really want to take on such a mission, you can also look at the older websites that rank well for your keywords and try and buy the sites out. Many travel websites were started on a whim, but the webmasters ran out of time, money or energy and shelved their projects.

You will likely need a little money behind you to get yourself set up in a new country, but if you’ve been making money blogging for a little while, you should be able to do this without any problems, especially if you choose to live somewhere as cheap as Thailand.

Thoughts? Anyone will to take the plunge?

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