Italy - Saturnia and the hot springs

23 October 2020

Great Journey 🏍🏍 Day 50

One thing first: it's good that you can't convey smells on Instagram. It smells like rotten eggs here and reminds me of chemistry lessons when we experimented with butyric acid.

The thermal springs of Saturnia are a highlight, especially as there are few visitors here at the moment. The car park is huge, which is evidence that it can be packed otherwise. The sulphurous (rotten eggs!) water comes out of the ground at about 37° C (there must be an underground immersion heater!) and ripples on down pretty steps into a river.

If you want to get healthy (I still have to find out which diseases), you have to stay in longer and then perform some kind of ritual (sulphur-water dance?). For us, it was enough for a short break and wet clothes. But we already feel much "different".

But we have to admit one thing: it does look pretty...

 

 

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