As soon as we got up from our nap we were headed to the hot springs. We left our robes at the dressing rooms, were given towels and headed to the water.
There were clocks everywhere. They suggest that you stay no longer than 15 minutes in every pool, specially the hot ones. Here's Frankie in one of the first ones.
The therapist sent us off to the first pool. This was the only pool that was tiled up- the rest were made of rocks or granite they extract from the mountain.
"Pediluvio de Sensaciones", is what they call their pebble foot massage. They have small pebbles on one side of the rail and larger ones in the other. The side closer to the deck has hot spring water and the other side is cold river water.
It's hard to see in the picture but all around the interior edges of the 4 foot pools they have water spraying against your ankles.
The rock block in the middle has the mud in it. In the winter, people spread it on themselves and sit in front of the hot air. There are rocks arranged to form a semicircular bench so you can sit right in front of the hot air blower to dry it all off.
Once that's dry its time to wash it off with the bio-thermal showers. They have hand showers and a super thermal water pressured one for quickly getting rid of all that mud as well as a water pressure massage.
Here's a video inside one of the cooler pools. You can see Frankie laying on one of the floaters they have.
The hottest pools were also encased in a class hot house. This is done to protect visitors in the winter from the strong winds- it's the base of the Andes, so it can get pretty cold.. We were days away from summer and it still got cool at night, so we didn't do any swimming at night. Also they fed us a 3 course dinner every night and Frankie and me NEVER eat that much. All we wanted to do after dinner was sleep. zzz.
The hot springs are open from about 9:30 am to 6:30 pm. I was told by one of the therapists that the last bus left at 7:00pm back to town so it was important that they leave on time. They had a rock steam house that was carved into volcanic rock. It was nice but I couldn't take the camera inside but there's a picture of it on the website. Frankie did most of his shaving in the cave.
There were clocks everywhere. They suggest that you stay no longer than 15 minutes in every pool, specially the hot ones. Here's Frankie in one of the first ones.
The therapist sent us off to the first pool. This was the only pool that was tiled up- the rest were made of rocks or granite they extract from the mountain.
let me explain all the scribbling
"Pediluvio de Sensaciones", is what they call their pebble foot massage. They have small pebbles on one side of the rail and larger ones in the other. The side closer to the deck has hot spring water and the other side is cold river water.
It's hard to see in the picture but all around the interior edges of the 4 foot pools they have water spraying against your ankles.
The rock block in the middle has the mud in it. In the winter, people spread it on themselves and sit in front of the hot air. There are rocks arranged to form a semicircular bench so you can sit right in front of the hot air blower to dry it all off.
Once that's dry its time to wash it off with the bio-thermal showers. They have hand showers and a super thermal water pressured one for quickly getting rid of all that mud as well as a water pressure massage.
Here's a video inside one of the cooler pools. You can see Frankie laying on one of the floaters they have.
The hottest pools were also encased in a class hot house. This is done to protect visitors in the winter from the strong winds- it's the base of the Andes, so it can get pretty cold.. We were days away from summer and it still got cool at night, so we didn't do any swimming at night. Also they fed us a 3 course dinner every night and Frankie and me NEVER eat that much. All we wanted to do after dinner was sleep. zzz.
The hot springs are open from about 9:30 am to 6:30 pm. I was told by one of the therapists that the last bus left at 7:00pm back to town so it was important that they leave on time. They had a rock steam house that was carved into volcanic rock. It was nice but I couldn't take the camera inside but there's a picture of it on the website. Frankie did most of his shaving in the cave.
me in the pool
We pretty much just chilled out for the rest of the afternoon, going from pool to pool. The hottest pool was encased in a glass structure and fed the other pools. They were all distributed in a way that they would all keep a stable temperature range, there were 5 - 6 pools in all. There was a shallow pool that you could lay in- it was great.
your view from the pools
They told us the temperature but I wasn't paying attention- I was more concerned with spreading mud all over ourselves.
He blends right into the background. I only did the hole body thing once. You have to make sure you wash all the mud off before you go into the pools. I was more interested in the springs
We were probably in the pools that first day for around 1 - 2 hours. it seems like a lot but you spend lot of the time outside of them too. We went back to our room and got ready for the aperitif. For overnight guests only, they have wine and empanadas- THE BEST EMPANADAS I've tasted so far, home made :).
Unfortunately, they only take out 3 - 4 bottles of red wine. We guessed that one was for Frankie, another one for me and the rest for the guests. The head waiter comes in at about 8:00pm and an ounces dinner is ready.
dinner- course 1
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