Top 10 Amazing Hot Springs Around the World
These hot springs you are about to see are often water springs produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater that rises up and out of the Earth’s crust. Some you can bath in, some you can walk in and others are so hot and toxic that you can only stand back and admire their awe-inspiring beauty…
Top 10 Amazing Hot Springs Around the World
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Fairmont Hot Springs
10 – Canada
It’s not often you get a waterfall and a hot spring all in one place, but this one located in Canada offers just that as well as wellness bathing!
Termas Geometricas
9 – Chile
With stunning walks and scenery that is straight from a sci-fi movie is the Termas Geometricas consists of 17 slate-lined thermal pools built into a ravine.
Mataranka Hot Springs
8 – Australia
Australia is a hot country anyway, but located at the Northern Territory is a town with a stunning natural hot spring!
The Blue Lagoon
7 – Icelandic
Bláa lónið (translated as The Blue Lagoon) is probably one of the world’s most famious geothermal spas. It’s been estimated that as many as 100,000+ people visit it each yeah with many saying bathing within the Lagoon cures various illnesses and health problems.
Mammoth Hot Springs
6 – United States
This is the first of two hot springs located within the Yellowstone National Park. I don’t know how it even started to grow, but that tree was never going to survive in this toxic soup of minerals.
Jigokudani Monkey Park
5 – Japan
It’s not so much the hot spring that is amazing, more the monkeys that bath in them during the winter months to keep warm.
Blood Pond Hot Spring
4 –Japan
These geothermal lakes look more orange than blood red, but if you examine them a little more closely you will soon discover the water really is red thanks to the variety of minerals in the springs outflows.
Dallol Hot Springs
3 – Africa
Coloured by Sulfur and algae this hot spring located in East Africa have a very vivid crust of salts and minerals that seem to form delicate bridges across the spring.
The Grand Prismatic Spring
2 – United States
Located in the Yellowstone National Park is the largest hot spring in USA called “The Grand Prismatic.” Its colours are because pigmented bacteria grow in microbial mats located around the edges of the spring. Strangely what time of year you see it depends on what colours are on show!
Pamukkale Thermal Pools
1 – Turkish
Located in southwestern Turkey is the Pamukkale hot spring pools that translate as “cotton castle” in Turkish. This is not a hot spring for bathing in because it contains slightly radioactive minerals!
