Malanage Hot Spring
- Location
- Nusa Tenggara Tim., Indonesia
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 35 °C
- pH
- 7
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
Malanage Hot Spring on Flores Island in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, is a chloride-rich thermal spring in the volcanic landscape of one of Indonesia's most culturally diverse and scenically dramatic islands — home to the Kelimutu tri-coloured volcanic crater lakes, the Komodo dragons of Komodo National Park, and a rich mosaic of Catholic, animist, and Muslim communities across 30+ local languages. Flores's volcanic geology produces numerous hot springs along its backbone of active and dormant volcanoes, and Malanage's springs represent this geothermal heritage in a corner of eastern Indonesia that receives comparatively few international visitors despite its extraordinary natural and cultural richness. The chloride mineral character of the waters reflects the marine-influenced volcanic geology of the Banda Arc in eastern Indonesia, where oceanic subduction beneath the volcanic islands produces a distinctly saline geothermal chemistry.