Cathy and Gary's South East Asia Travel Pages
PATONG CARNIVAL
The very colourful Patong Carnival is a 5 day event starting on November 1st to celebrate the opening of high season with an amazing parade through Patong to kick off the Carnival.
Each year this parade gets bigger and better, last years took nearly 2 hours to go past us with beautifully decorated floats, spectacular costumes, bands, modified cars with some of the loudest stereo systems you will ever hear and so much more.
Patong Carnival has many free events on each day and along with food choices and stalls from a multitude of Asian countries there is a huge variety of delicious choices as well as drinks stalls selling alcohol etc along the Patong beachfront walkways.
Anywhere along the beach road is good to watch the parade but we have found the best area is down at the southern end of the beach road at the Ocean View bar right on the corner or the Dolphin Bar, perfect views, somewhere to sit and you can have a few drinks as well but get there around 5pm before the crowds.
2019 is the 34thyear that the Patong Carnival has been held and it is such a fun exciting time to be in Phuket.
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