Bath time #hotspring #maichau #vietnam
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A soaking tour through Southeast Asia. By recent photo's.
Chipolaté
#hotsprings #thailand #shambhala #japanese #doesthisclothcovermychipolaté?
Hot tubs powered by natural hot springs in the mountains 
#hotsprings #Pai #Thailand
The Timor Leste hot spring of Marobo is getting more and more attention ...
Marobo hot springs 
#Timor #hotsprings
타이머 맞춰놓고 애쓰기
다시 #여행 가구프당..
Indonesia
#hotspring#varmakällor#tropiskt#bali#tidigmorgon#natt
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Similar (?) hot springs at the Lake Toba on Indonesia's Sumatra:
#hotsprings#laketoba#indonesia#sumatra#travelling#backpackers#littleticino #paradise#mothernature#stormyweather# life is amazing
Hot natural springs in Indonesia 
#hotspring#indonesia#laketoba#vulcanoe#naturalspa#spa#spatime#mothernature
And then another Rinjani (Lombok island) photo ...:
Hot springs! #ringani #lombok #hotspring #indonesia
Air Panas Cimanggu, Jawa Barat.
Berlokasi 1,5 jam (47 km) dari Bandung ini hanya berjarak beberapa ratus
meter dari wisata kawah putih. Waktu itu aku kesini bareng dengan mbak
Roro sekeluarga, setelah mengunjungi kawah putih, situ patenggang, dan
kebun teh.
Berada di kaki Gunung Patuha Bandung Selatan dengan ketinggian + 1.100 m
dpl. Jadi nikmat banget berendam saat sore karena hawa sekitar yang
dingin dan hangat nya air , membuat kami betah berlama-lama.
Di kolam ini fasilitas yang sediakan juga meliputi: Kolam renang air
panas alam (3 kolam terbuka umum), Kamar Bilas, WC Umum, Mushola, Tempat
Parkir, Gazebo untuk tempat istirahat yang disewain.
Aku rasa, lebih nyaman berendam disini ketimbang di Ciater, karena air
panas di Ciater suhunya lumayan tinggi, membuatku hampir pingsan. Kalo
disini suhunya pas. Untuk tiket masuk air panas Cimanggu ini, per orang
Rp 15.000.
Jadi, kalo ke Bandung Selatan, nikmati tripmu dengan berendam disini
ya... #mytripmyadventure #visitv3 #jawabarat #bandungselatan #ciwedey #hotspring #cimanggu
Not really much news to share, like said it's all eye candy nowadays ...
Bucks
Do Asian 'values' change? From the South China Morning Post (Mar. 24):
'Couples, covered in body paint and dressed in underwear, celebrate
'naked weddings' in Zhejiang province to protest against modern China's
values, which focus more on money than love'.
Though possibly not in the same league, but I think that not only China's but a large part of Asia's love for money trumps natural soaking and soaking in nature.
Traditions / values changing, part II. Rocketnews24 (Mar 31) notes that sento's (these are public baths) in Japan are disappearing:
'But nowadays houses are all built with private baths, so the sento culture is dying out.
...
Local sento are few and far between these days but you can
still catch a part of this Japanese bathing history if you search the
oldest neighborhoods of any city. Look for a chimney that looks more
like a smoke stack coming out of the top of the building (remember Spirited Away?) or a noren curtain out the front with the ゆ mark on it, the symbol of a sento' .
On Benjamin's mess (Apr. 10) there's more to lament concerning Japan's penchant for bathing and changing values:
'Japan is a
nation whose fondness for sexual repression rivals only the Puritan US
of A. Yet, for centuries, the tediously formal, pathologically uptight
and insufferably stuffy Japanese have been shamelessly indulging
themselves by lounging about, drinking saké and wearing washcloths on their heads, in steaming basins of volcanic water, boys and girls together buck naked.
Alas again, this tradition is fading. In the high-end onsen where we spent the night, the management segregates men and women in two common-bath rotenburo.
Hotlips and I, who like to bathe together, deplore this arrangement
...
True onsen —no walls between genders — are a threatened refuge. They’ve retreated into what we call the deep inaka,
whose chaste and neighborly denizens still understand that the measure
of modesty is how you behave when you ain’t got a stitch'.
A very nice blog entry.
To follow or not to follow tradition in Japan, source:
'Sodium - hydrogen carbonate / chloride spring. It naturally gushes out
from cracks on both banks. There is an outdoor hot spring and also a
footbath across the Uba-ga-taki Waterfall. You can see fountains gushing
out hot water along the river'.
Rolling business
More from the hot spring travel front, Hot Spring Adventures has opened for business:
About Us
Hot Spring Adventures started as a Meetup.com group in
June of 2013 and then taken off Meetup as a private group. This website
serves as a place for existing members to join trips and for potential
members to learn about the places we visit.
In September 2014, the group was taken off Meetup.com and about 50
members joined the offline version.
Huffington Post (Mar. 12) has a feature on the various spa treatments which one might never have heard of. These include thermal pools (never heard of?), fish pedicure, mud baths, a Mayan sweat lodge, Reiki, Zareeba Treatment, Snow and Watsu treatments.
Singapore's Straits Times (Feb. 22) has a 10 beautiful spa's around the world highlight. Not very natural, but it includes Malaysia's Banjaran Hot Spring Retreat. Note that these are all very expensive places ...
The Organic Spa magazine has an entry (Mar. 4) on hot springs around the globe: of the 8 high end featured soaks, none are from Southeast Asia ...
Morning dip. 
️ #summer #hotspring #Camiguin #musttry #vsco #vscocam #vscopinas #vscoph
Not worth a mention, one of Southeast Asia's more popular hot springs, source
A hot spring foot bath on the .... train! Tohokukanko (Mar. 1):
'‘Treiyu’ comes from ‘Train’ and
‘Soleil’, sun in French. It is the first resort Shinkansen that operates
between Fukushima and Shinjo.
Inside the train, there are ‘Ozashiki
Reserved Seats’ made of Tatami, ‘Bar Counter’ that serves local sake,
wine and juice of Yamagata, and ‘Footbath’ where you can relax while
looking out the window. Experience the new way of enjoying trip on
Shinkansen and travel around as if you are in a hot spring village'.
Finally, some disturbing yet curious news from Japan:
'At least three Japanese workers have died while working at a popular hot spring in the northeastern part of the country.
The men died on Wednesday after they were found suffering cardiac
arrest near a source of Nyuto Hot Spring in Semboku, Akita Prefecture.
Local officials say the incident happened as at least four workers
were working to adjust the temperature and amount of hot water in the
hot spring resort'.
Possibly poisonous gases involved ...
Dividing Line
Than let's look into the region:
At the end of our trek, our group was rewarded by hot springs. (I had
the whole right side to myself as genders are separated by the dividing
wall. 
) #Myanmar #Burma #Hsipaw #hotsprings #longyi
#guci#tegal#swimming#hotriver#hotspringwater#slametmountain
Jakarta Post (Feb 24) has a list of five hot springs near Jakarta.
There is a list with Indonesia's best natural thermal baths. Surprisingly 6 of the seven are from Java ...
'Last year it [Indonesia] amended a law to stop defining
geothermal development as "mining" and thus allow work in protected
forests, where many resources are located. The revision also shifts
project approval from local to federal officials.
...
Some projects have stalled for other reasons.
Local officials stopped a proposed one on Bali, because residents were
concerned about the impact of drilling in the Bedugul forests.
Opposition may be softening, and the project may be reactivated, however, as increasing tourism on the island has caused frequent power shortages'.
Elsewhere (Mar. 11), authorities with investor interest in mind on Bali hope to continue ...
A natural sulfur hot spring in Dolok Tinggi Raja. #tinggiraja #kawahputih #dolok #simalungun #hotspring #visitsumut #visitindonesia
Deep in the forest and sandwiched by a gorge somewhere in the foothills
of Mt. Kanlaon is an uncharted territory with a hidden hot spring and
waterfalls. It's off-the-beaten and getting there means trekking on all
fours most of the time. #secretPlaces #negros #Philippines #backpacking #tambayTravel #adventure #itsmorefuninthephilippines #travel #hotSpring #waterfalls #sharePH #choosephilippines @natgeo @natgeotravel
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For something lightly different, a radio reportage on Mindoro's geothermal projects, brought to my attention by the very complete Thinkgeoenergy. The Deutsche Welle piece (Mar. 19) notes not only the potential benefit for the locals but also their distrust of mining companies in general, as well as outside intervention. Very balanced.
#hotspring #pool in the #mountains behind #dumaguete #greatroad on the way up there! Such a #scenery !
Forthcoming a forum on Thai hot springs at the World Spa and Well-being Convention 2015 this September. At 11:30 the forum discusses
'The Rape and Pillage of our Natural Resources'.
Now that could be interesting.
Found on Facebook, the Thai Hot Spring Club. Oddly it seems more about suited men at meetings looking important. Yawn.
Natural
hot springs in Pai! Who knew hot springs in the heat would be so
amazing??
#paistateofmind#pai#nature#hotsprings#latepost#water#thailand#natural#hot#mineral#bath
#travel
The Lookeast magazine (Feb.) has a feature:
'With 112 natural hotsprings in Thailand, the kingdom is a veritable
“land of hotsprings.” Not surprisingly, the country’s spa and well-being
entrepreneurs are now trying to find more ways to harness the full
potential of these hotsprings, business-wise and otherwise. Indeed, why
not?
Such is the tourism potential of the hotspring sctor that even the
government and other private sectors are joining the fray to develop
them. In fact, The National Economic and Social Development Bureau, Thai
Hot Spring Club, and other agencies are joining hands to not only tap
but also maximize their potential further by building prototypes of “spa
towns” in Krabi, Ranong, Kanchanaburi, Lampang, Chiang Mai, Chiangrai,
and Lampang' .
Not the type of club I would want to be associated with ...
#Marobo #HotSprings #Mountains #TimorLeste
A list of 6 famous hot spring in north Vietnam: Moong (Son La), Quang Hanh - Quang Ninh, Tien Lang - Hai Phong, Kim Boi - Hoa Binh, Thanh Thuy - Phu Tho and My Lam - Tuyen Quang. From eturbonews (Feb. 14).
Khanh Hoa province wants to develop Truong Xuan hot spring. What's stopping them? This is an example of how Southeast Asia is losing it's natural hot springs. Khanh Hoa News (Mar. 6):
'Pham Van Nghe, director of Thanh Cong Joint Stock Company – Khanh Hoa
Branch said that the company hasn’t made investment in Truong Xuan Hot
Spring because of worries about taking back capital. The company has
carried out three surveys for a plan to build this spot with guest
house, restaurant, swimming pool, mud bath area, camping area,
entertainment area, etc; but, the construction needs too big investment' .
I know some people some big is beautiful, but not in the context of developing hot spring sites ....
A few years ago I visited here (see blog entry). Certainly it was not touristy, but very refreshing and down to earth. What's wrong with that?
олодный душ и горячие источники, что может быть лучше!?
🚿 #Vietnam #vietrip #Vacation #Yangbay #sun #swim #summer #seawaynotbad #natural #nature #NhaTrang
Lcimag (March 2015) has feature on mud bathing in Vietnam:
'Mud from these three spa resorts I introduced has abundant necessary
minerals, which help to prevent and cure diseases, restore energy and
boost immune system as well as maintain the young beauty. So, what are
you waiting for? Let’s travel and relax with the mud bathing services in
Vietnam' .
Something I didn't know, Mui Ne has it's own hot spring. I doubt it's natural but still it may be worth a visit. It gets 4 stars from tripadvisor, all very recent, so it looks like it was only recently opened. I've also found what I suppose to be the original website, not much info here but there are also mud baths available.
Cheaphotel.vn (Feb. 20) has an extensive posting on what they call Mui Ne Hot Mineral Mud Centre. It seems the same place:
'The
centre takes advantage of natural mud resource in Tuy Phong District
(Binh Thuan Province) and hot mineral water, around 800m from the
centre. Here, visitors can choose many healthful services such as hot
mineral mud soaking, warm mineral water soaking, water massage, yoga…
The mud
here is not as thick as the mud in Nha Trang, but Mui Ne Hot Mineral
Mud Centre has the advantage of green and well-aired spaces. All the mud
tubs are placed apart by bananas. It’s enough privacy for visitors to
enjoy bathing'.
Namaste
#hibokhibok #mambajao #camiguin #Philippines #lonesometraveler #hotspring #spring #meditation #yoga #waterfalls #nature #river #water #namaste #ardenthotspring #mount
A whirlwind tour by pictures through the region, how many countries featured?
#FotoRus #ESPA #hotspring #tabanan #holiday 
The Balinese baths of ..., source.
#Amazing#holiday ... I love the #sun and the #goodweather ... Ich liebe die #Sonne und das gute Wetter ... #outdoor#hotspring#enjoy#travel#relax
Banjaran, Perak, Malaysia; source
Flashing
That's three, back to the Philippines:
Di ra gyud mo masakpan mangihi sa kaiinit sa tubig diri. #vsco #nature #hotspring #travelph #adventure #vscobeau #mountain #trek #cebu
T minus 2 days until #bikini all day errday 
#flashback #nhatrang #vietnam #thermalpool #vacay #2014 #theblackfloatythingismeanttobeThere
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Then another from Vietnam at the Yangbay waterfall, likewise near Nha Trang. I once visited this place but couldn't find the hot spring. Since though development has resulted in the construction of this pool:
#горячиеисточники #термальныеисточники #родоновыеванны #мояжизнь
#длятелаидуши #экопарк #ЯнгБей #моревпечатлений #Природа #Вьетнам #thermalbaths #mylife #ecopark #YangBay #nature #Vietnam #travel #traveler #travelphoto
But first to the baths of Burma:
Hot spring
To be more precise South Burma, flickr member Jumbokedama
Vi prøvede varme kilder i dag! #hotsprings #norththai #thaibali2015
Not often pictured hot spring, at Pha Daeng National Park, Chiang Dao, Chiang Mai province, .... Thailand. source
Hot #me #talailandia #rain #amazing #place #naturalhotwater #nature #holiday #thai #thaistyle #pai
Don't go chasing waterfalls just stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to @laratyssel #hotsprings #rinjani
Hot spring on Rinjani volcano, Lombok island, Indonesia. source
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