Phuket's #1 place to see. Every tour bus stops here, all tourists come by to see it. It's always surrounded by people and if you hate crowds you won;t enjoy it and it's better to see Big Buddha from one of the viewpoints.
In the Private chapel there is a small chair and table close to the tabernacle. This is where John Paul II wrote his Theology of the Body.
Theology of the Body is the topic of a series of 129 lectures given by Pope John Paul II during his Wednesday audiences in St. Peter's Square and Paul VI Audience Hall between September 5, 1979 and November 28, 1984. It was the first major teaching of his pontificate. The complete addresses were later compiled and expanded upon in many of John Paul's encyclicals, letters, and exhortations.