Your Starting Point is Ranong Road. This is the site of Phuket`s town market. The market is open until late afternoon, but most interesting in the early morning. The stalls offer all kinds of things: it starts with  beautiful flowers and delicious tropical fruit like mango or pineapple, spices like chilies, garlic,or tamarind, dried fish and Thai shrimp paste, goes on with  fresh seafood and butchered meats and finally ends up with clothes and household articles. Buy some fruit (the small bananas or the mangoes are delicious!) or a spray of orchids.
 

When you are sure that you have inspected everything in the market, exit to Ranong Road, turn left, cross the street  and walk ahead past the Thai Airways office and then past a Thai temple. At the next corner you can see a building with a Chinese temple roof. This is Put Jaw Temple, the oldest Chinese temple in Phuket. It is dedicated to  Kuan Yin, the Chinese Goddess of Mercy.  Put Jaw Temple is not particularly sophisticated from an architectonic point of view, but nevertheless interesting. The middle hall holds an image of Kuan Yin and several fortune telling devices, such as a pair of wooden blocks that are dropped by the devotees to the floor. Depending on which side they fall on, the answer to a question is "yes" or "no". There are also two cans with sticks that have to be shaken until one of the sticks comes out. Each stick has a number and in the room left to the main hall are boxes where the devotee can find paper slips (also with numbers written on them) with good advice that suits his or or problem. Do not forget to leave a donation (it is used for the upkeep of Put Jaw) - the temple`s guardian will ring a little bell when you put the money in the box. 
 

While Put Jaw Temple is admittedly rather plain, the Jui Jui Temple next door is much more ornate and stately. You just have to walk through the gate in the left temple compound wall of Put Jaw Temple. The Jui Jui Temple is dedicated to a vegetarian god, Kiu Wong In, whose statue can be admired on the altar. His red face colour does not indicate fierceness but, according to Chinese symbolism, benevolence. Also interesting are the carved entrance doors of the temple.

After the temple visit walk back to the street corner, cross Ranong Road, and go straight ahead on the same street (Soi Phoo Toon) in northern direction until you reach the intersection with Krabi Road (it is the second street after Ranong Road). (The walk takes just a few minutes) Turn right and walk some 50 meters more  until you see a further Chinese shrine, with an entrance that is flanked by two lions, a little set back form the road. This is Sanjao Sam San Temple. You can enter it; inside is an altar. The shrine is dedicated to the Goddess of the Sea and new boats are blessed here, so that their owners may enjoy the protection of the goddess. The atmosphere of the shrine is a lot more quiet and dignified than at Put Jaw Temple.
 

When you return from the temple to Krabi Road just walk on in the same direction as before and you will come across huge yard with very beautiful old Sino-Portuguese houses. They were built and owned by rich Chinese merchants. The ribbings across the roof edges and on the gables are typical for this style. There are a number of these houses on Krabi road. Walk until the next main intersection (with Yawaraj Road) and turn right (one the corner is another interesting house) This way you will get back to Ranong road (it is the next larger road where you can turn left). If you like to, you can also visit the Phuket  Aquarium at Cape Panwa. Just hire a Songthaew and let it take you the 10 kilometers to Cape Panwa (there are also regular buses to the aquarium that bear signs in English). The aquarium houses a large variety of tropical fish and other sea animals in large tanks - quite interesting if you plan to do diving or snorkeling on Phuket Island. From the aquarium catch a bus or Songthaew back to you hotel.