"Sublime" is the only word to describe the pleasure of sinking back into a natural hot spring. Kamchatka's volcanic birthright bestows on the peninsula hundreds of wild hot springs, some of which have been "tamed" and developed to wonderful hot swimming pools. Whatever your pleasure, from truly wild to a spa experience, Kamchatka's healing hot water is one of the most unique experiences on the peninsula.

     On the wild side of hot.

     The most accessible wild hot springs are found in Nalychevo Nature Park. Hiking, skiing, snow machining, or flying by helicopter into the park is a great reward for your effort by offering several hot springs. The park has left the hot springs in their pristine state and built alongside several charming wooden changing rooms and outhouses. Besides Nalychevo Park, all over the peninsula are hot springs that have been visited by locals for hundreds of years.

     Timonovskie Hot Springs is renowned for its fabled healing of one Father Timon who had been left at the spring to die, only to recover his health due to the hot springs and a nearby mineral water spring. A favorite of skiers, Rodnikovskie Hot Springs near Mutnovsky Volcano are located near the recreational cabins of a local ski club. The Valley of Geysers, renowned for erupting steam geysers and boiling mud pots also has some lovely hot springs.

     Tamed hot springs for everyone.

     Paratunka Valley just 30 minutes' drive from the airport and 45 minutes' drive from Petropavlovsk is a wonder of geothermal activity.  In this area are nearly 30 hot swimming pools fed by wells drilled to bring up the naturally hot and mineralized waters. 

     In the center of Esso village is a huge Olympic sized swimming pool filled with hot water. This community center is open year round, free of charge.