The Mission Hills Drive:
Northeast Phuket on Phang Nga Bay

You can't beat the views of Phang Nga Bay from the area around the Mission Hills golf course and the growing residential area on northeastern Phuket. 

Turn east off of the main highway (402) just 600 meters south of the road to Phuket International Airport.  If you want to see more of the golf course itself, just ask the public relations people at the Club House, they'll be happy to give you a ride in club car - all around the course.  They enjoy, you will too.

Begin this drive from Thepkasatri Road, highway 402, the main road up and down the middle of Phuket and connecting Phuket to the mainland.  Just south of the airport road on 402 -  turn east onto highway 4027.  Check the map below and turn left to Baan Laem Srai.  Stay on that side road for beautiful views of the sea once you get past the Laem Srai Resort.  You also, at the end of the loop come out right at the Mission Hills Golf course - ready for the Northeast Island Drive! 

 

If you look at the exact center of this map - the center of B2 - you will see the marker for highway 4027.  The small peninsula just to the northwest of that marker - the top center of B2 - is this drive (Mission Hills) and the larger peninsula to the northeast of that is the North East Phuket Drive - top left of C2.  You can't miss them now!

 

The Mission Hills drive, starting from the main highway, won't take more than a hour - unless you, like many of us, start wandering the side side roads.   Don't worry about getting lost, Phuket is a smallish island and every road comes out somewhere.

Due to some of the extraordinary views, this area is quickly taking off with villa estates and even a few resorts.  See while it is still quite native.  It's worth the drive.

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