If you're looking for something outdoorsy to do while in Santiago Chile,
about two hours outside the city or about 140 kilometers are these awesome
hot springs! If you're traveling with a group of people you can just hire a
driver and pay about $50 and they'll drive you out here. There are some
amazing views on the drive here and then once you get here obviously you have
these beautiful hot springs. Alright so they're like multiple pools here and
they range in temperature from like 25 degrees Celsius all the way up to 60
degrees Celsius. So what I've been told is the lower the pool the lower the
temperature. So we're gonna start in the lowest pool so that should be about 25
degrees Celsius, which I believe is somewhere around 80 to 83 degrees.
Here's a little travel hack, so this place is really busy during the weekend, but
if you come during a weekday like we are, we're out here on a Friday, there's only
like 40 people here maybe. We have this pool all to ourselves.
So this is the bottom pool and it's not warm enough for us so we're gonna switch
to another one so this one is much hotter and the views are amazing so this
water is naturally heated they drill holes into the ground to tap into the
thermal heating system of the San Jose volcano this is just a great place
outside of the city to relax by yourself with a group of friends and we
definitely did a little bit of both over the next few hours
that is until Phil convinced me to do a mud facial this is my buddy Phil also on
for a boat year he's went ahead and took some of the clay and smeared it on his
face and has convinced me of the medicinal
and beautification properties of the mud so I'm gonna go ahead and put that stuff
on my face like him it'll make you look ten years younger all right so it's kind
of deep in here you kind of got a big
here we go
I'm not gonna lie I'm not gonna lie this stuff kind of stinks it's a very soap
free we're near the San Jose volcano so I probably has something to do with it
there's probably a lot of sulfur in this ash but bill says that it's gonna work
wonders for my skin all right so Phil's gonna do an ancient
Chilean shower
absolutely fifty years ago all right so go ahead and take the ancient tool and
shout well this is kind of hot
the water is supersoft t-this is Dara she's nice enough to go ahead and film
me getting into the hottest pool which is around 60 degrees Celsius so around
150 253 degrees Fahrenheit which is the hottest pool here as you see there's
nobody in it nobody really likes that one and they usually can't get in past
their like ankles so I'm gonna try to get in neck deep in that thing probably
probably five yeah that's hot hot wanna see my body will get used to it
that being said it's like pretty surreal
after another hour or so of relaxing we decided to head back to Santiago but I
wanted to show you one detour we made and it's kind of a must do on your way
back so anyway out from the hot springs there's this little shack or it looks
like a shack but it's actually a little restaurant where you can stop and get
some food and get some water and get a cerveza if you want
after you've enjoyed the day in the hot springs
I didn't introduce him in the water beautiful Sarah and beautiful Dara fly
with me today both on remote you're with me Sarah actually has a blog that she's
writing it's kind of related to a remote year and an odd kind of related to some
of the things she does for a living so if you want to check it out it's
Sarah Abbie rom-com that's it if you want something to drink you got to go
back in this little area and figure it out for those that don't know my name is
Kevin and I was in the military for 20 years I became a corporate lawyer and I
kind of got fed up with the nine-to-five so I quit my job to travel full-time so
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