Just one of many thermal water fueled camping grounds along the border between Hungary and Romania.
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Ștrand Livada de Bihor, Oradea, Romania
Category: hotspring
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Toplata voda, Svishtov, Bulgaria
Last year we found a free thermal bath on the Danube near Hârșova in Romania. This seems to be the Bulgarian counterpart albeit a few hundred kilometers upstream.
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Estestven izvor, Hisarya, Bulgaria
A mesothermal spring in a lush green valley outside the major roman spa town just below the Balkan mountain range.
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Topiltsata, Velingrad, Bulgaria
Топилцата or “the Smelter” is the peoples answer to the city of spa hotels.
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Bedenski Bani, Smolyan, Bulgaria
Cool off in snowmelt river water after extra hot mineral bath.
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Therma Beach, Kos, Greece
Everybody on the island knows the rocky beach with an abandoned spa building. But do you dare bath in the winter?
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Thermes, Xanti, Greece
EU Money well spend: gentle outdoor pools in the Rhodope Mountains.
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Toplata voda, Varna, Bulgaria
The cities beach promenade with hot pool by the Black Sea!
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Puturoasa, Hârșova, Romania
Right at the bank of the Danube river: “The stinky baths”!
Two more 35ºC soaks just a splash away from Thermopilae!
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Loutra Thermopilon, Thermopylae, Greece
A soak just as legendary as the ‘300’ Spartans having fought here 2500 years ago.
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Kouniavitis, Kamena Vourla, Greece
Bunch of warm pools next to the highway.
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Kallyntika, Kamena Vourla, Greece
Swimming with turtles!
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Gialtron baths, Evia, Greece
The low key alternative 20km from Loutra Edipsou!
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Loutra Edipsou, Evia, Greece
This hotspring town has freeloaders covered with outdoor pools at the shore.
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Mustafa-Litza, Ikaria, Greece
Radioactivity is in the water for you and me!
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Loumakia, Ikaria, Greece
Time for some ancient hydrotherapy!
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Cave Spring, Ikaria, Greece
Just one of 5 hot springs in the bay of Therma: This is the free open air coastal cave!
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Lefkada, Ikaria, Greece
Hefty amounts of hot water rushing into the Aegean sea between round boulders!
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Agia Kyriaki, Ikaria, Greece
Why not spend your time in a hotspring as you wait for your flight!
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Krifti, Lesbos, Greece
A chapel on the cliff gives the name to this long forgotten seaside hotspring!
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Polichnitos, Lesbos, Greece
Maybe not the often touted “hottest spring in Europe” but Polichintos has plenty of water and hot it is indeed!
As tradition wants it, we went on our winter thermal spring heist. Which would lead us this time to a place in Hungary, four spots in Romania, six in Bulgaria and many more in Greece: located in the northern mainland (Thrace), Lamia and the islands of Evia, Samothraki, Lesbos, Ikaria and Kos. There is a recap of each place and some thermal photography to go along with it. Here are all of them in order by my personal dip rating.
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Agios Giannis, Lisvori, Lesbos, Greece
Abundant hot water in the shepherds wasteland left neglected!
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Therma Spa, Gera Bay, Lesbos, Greece
Fancy outdoor thermal pools with Turkish baths!
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Megala Therma, Lesbos, Greece
Scalding water between pebbles on the beach!
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Thermis, Lesbos, Greece
Ottoman hotel in shambles, spa is vacated but the hotspring still flowing as ever!
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Efthalou, Lesbos, Greece
Aging Turkish spa under clandestine reactivation!
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Therma, Samothraki, Greece
Free hotsprings under wings of the headless nike!
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Loutra Potamias, Thrace, Greece
The random roadside hotspring!
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Loutra Eleftheron, Thrace, Greece
Literary the fountain of freedom!
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Rupite, Bulgaria
Hotsprings and home of a modern day prophetess!
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Băile Herculane, Romania
Brutalist spa town with open air hotsprings!
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Geoagiu-Băi, Romania
Spa town with roman roots and hotsprings!
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Kiskőrös, Hungary
A campground with hotspring pools!
Recommended: Spend half a year quarantined on the island so you can explore the entire island and know all the best hot springs, hikes and beaches! If you have less time this list will help you to pick some natural highlights.