Monday, January 27, 2014

San Kamphaeng

The last weekend in January Fang and I went to San Kamphaeng, a royal hot springs site about 20km outside of Chiang Mai. The whole area around San Kamphaeng is full of little private hot spring spas, and San Kamphaeng is like a public park that uses them as well. People camp there and picnic and the like.
There are two little geysers that are constantly going, and apparently they're 105 degrees. Wasn't clear but I'm pretty sure they're using Celsius. What's really cool is that they pipe the water from the ground into little tubs where the locals have put hooks along the sides to cook eggs. They have a little stand that sells both regular and quail eggs (the latter of which are crazy popular and very tasty), and there's a sign right near that tells you both in Thai and English how long to cook your eggs. Then there's a little man-made stream that runs through this park that people sit along the edge in and dangle their feet. The farther away from the source, the more it cools off so it's like there are tiers of hotness to sit along. It's quite cozy to sit there and laze away an afternoon with your feet in spa-like warm mineral water. 
It wasn't a very long, or a very eventful day but it was really pleasant to just get away and soak my feet for a while.

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