Set amidst a lush green jungle, enclosed by a well kept garden, the soothing and healing waters of the hot springs pour out into three pools to become one of the greatest attractions to natives and tourists in this part of Bali. These ‘Air Pannas’ or hot water springs are located in Banjar country side on the northern side of Bali, over the Lovina beach with just a 30 minute drive away from it and 1.5 km away from Banjar as well.
These historic waters of the hot well springs have been built by the Japanese and are claimed to be from volcanic origins. This sulphuric tinged water is at an ideal 37 Celsius degrees as to be so comfortingly warm and cozy with no harsh smell of sulphuric as to be intolerable or offensive and more importantly is claimed to possess healing powers especially for people with rheumatic diseases.
The waters gush out to the pool from the mouths of eight nagas or rather dragon shaped creatures into the oblong shaped pool from where it brims and spills over through five more naga statues into the largest square shaped second pool. The third pool although the smallest still gives you rejuvenating warm massages as the water cascades down from 4 meter high sprouts into that particular pool. These three pools together manage to give you an invigorating bath in these warm waters that have the ability to cure you and energize you like no other. In addition to the pools, there is a small temple as well as a nice restaurant to fulfil your raging hunger after a warm bath with a delicious lunch for a great prize. There are adequate facilities to change with cabin rooms and showers by the side of the pools and this place is worth a visit for even the tourists while the locals consider these waters to be holy and likewise possessing the ability to heal many ailments.
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Jayani Senanayake is a writer who dabbles in travel and all things exotic. Under the pseudonym of Calliope Sage, she writes of the allures that must simply be discovered. Google+
