Hot stuff: New Zealand's best natural hot springs
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Plunge into soothing and healing natural hot pools and springs, writes Ewan McDonald
New Zealand's blown hot and cold over the millennia, so we have more than 100 thermal hot pools and springs – from the free to the luxurious. They'll help soothe your skin and muscles and maybe add years to your life.
Thorpe Talbot is not a name that resounds in Aotearoa's literary history, so full credit: in 1882 she published our first tourist guidebook,
The new guide to the lakes and hot springs, and A month in hot water. Unfortunately, many of her not-to-be-missed attractions were blown up four years later in the Tarawera eruption. Not to worry, there are still plenty to soak in today.