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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.