Waychey Tshachu
- Location
- Gasa, Gasa, Bhutan
- Water type
- sulfurous
- Temperature
- 40 °C
- pH
- 6.5
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Rich in active gases or metals — a strong mineral character.
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Waychey Tshachu is a natural hot spring in Punakha district of Bhutan, one of the warmer and most spiritually significant valleys in the country, where mildly sulphurous oligomineral water emerges from the geological structures of the Himalayan range and is used for therapeutic bathing by local Bhutanese communities in accordance with the traditional Sowa Rigpa medical system. Punakha, the former royal capital of Bhutan, is home to the magnificent Punakha Dzong — one of the most beautiful Buddhist monasteries in the Himalayas — and the fertile Mo Chhu and Pho Chhu river valleys where bhutanese jacaranda trees bloom in spectacular purple annually. The juxtaposition of natural thermal water, sacred Buddhist architecture, and the extraordinary mountain-valley scenery of the Punakha district creates a quintessentially Bhutanese wellness setting.