What are hot springs?

Hot springs are like nature’s warm bath that you can walk into outside.

Imagine you have a water bottle full of cold water, and you put it near a fire, after a while, the water gets warm. That's what happens with hot springs, but instead of a fire, there's something deep inside the Earth called heat.

Deep under the ground, there is hot rock, and sometimes even molten rock (like lava that’s still moving). Water from lakes or underground finds its way down to this hot area, gets warm, or even super hot, and then flows back up through cracks in the ground. That's how we get hot water coming out of the Earth, which we can use for swimming or just relaxing.

Think about a geyser, it’s like a hot spring that sometimes bursts into the air with steam and water. But not all hot springs are like that; some just sit there, giving off warm water quietly, ready for you to enjoy.