Mae Fang Hot Springs

While we where up in the Chiang Mai area, we stop at one of the hot springs in Mae Fang National Park. As warm as the weather is in Thailand you would not really think of hot springs. Thailand has hot springs through out the country, and most of the hottest ones being up north in the Chiang Mai region. You can contact the park by:  Mae Phang National Park, p.o. box 9, Phang district, Cjiang Mai province 50110. Not only can you see the springs here, you can go to the hot spring pools and soak in the mineral water. They also have Thai massage if you really want to relax.

Steam coming out of the ground

Here are some of the vents blowing steam and hot water. In the small creeks that connected the springs together, there was green algae growing. The water was still very warm, hard to believe that it still could grow.

Algae growing in the hot water cooking some eggs.

Here you can see the algae growing in the bottom of this hot pool of water.

Hot water coming out of the ground.

Here is an close up of the water coming out of the ground. This will cook you if you get into it.

Here are some of our family cooking their eggs.

It just would not be a good trip to the hot springs with out boiling some eggs. You can see the hot water boiling out of the ground in the middle. As you can see by these pictures, everyone was wearing saddles, so they were very careful not to step in the water.

Steamed Family

As the pressure built up the steam would come out with more force. When the mail vent did blow all of the little ones would die down to just a trickle. You had to pay attention or you would get sprayed when the large one stoped and the little ones took off again.

This is the largest spring blowing off where we were at.

When this went off, it would go about 35 meters high. It also had a very loud hiss. Also when this went off all of the little springs died down to a trickle.

Click PLAY to view a short video of our time spent at Mae Fang Hot Springs.