Bains Jaunes de la Soufrière

Bains Jaunes de la Soufrière in Saint-Claude, Guadeloupe, are carbonated and sulfurous volcanic spring pools on the slopes of La Grande Soufrière—the most active volcano in the Lesser Antilles and the highest peak in the French Caribbean, whose ongoing volcanic activity produces the yellow sulfurous springs that give the Bains Jaunes their vivid name and dramatic geological character within the tropical rainforest of Guadeloupe's National Park. Bathing in naturally carbonated yellow volcanic spring water on an active Caribbean volcano, surrounded by tropical forest and with views extending to the emerald Caribbean sea, creates a thermal experience unmatched in the French overseas territories—a genuinely volcanic open-air bath of the kind that normally exists only in Iceland, Japan, or the volcanic fields of East Africa and New Zealand. The Grande Soufrière's ongoing volcanic activity, the yellow carbonated spring character, and the extraordinary Caribbean tropical forest setting make the Bains Jaunes the most geologically dramatic and uniquely Caribbean thermal experience within all French territory.