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A NEW restaurant, shop and toilet block is being built on Khao Rang, the popular viewing spot in Phuket City that has become a compulsory stop for bus tours to Phuket.
The Phuket City municipality auctioned a 30-year lease on the restaurant and shop before construction began, leaving the present occupiers of the old-fashioned shop unable to compete.
The two-storey restaurant is being built below the existing level of the car park, so the restaurant will not be obvious beneath the much larger shop.
Erection of the structure will mean that for the first time since opening in 1973, the Tunk-Ka restaurant on the hilltop will have competition.
On the day that Phuketwan visited the hilltop recently, a family of walkers who had exercised their way up to the peak fed a troop of abut 20 monkeys.
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Rang Hill not above the 80m build limit ??
Posted by LivinLOS on July 13, 2010 21:45
Editor Comment:
Well above, but some buildings were in place before the limit became law and others are replacement facilities.