Deulajhari Hot Spring Odisha

Deulajhari Hot Spring, in the Angul district of Odisha (Orissa) in eastern India, draws on bicarbonate thermal waters in the forested interior of a state whose tribal and classical heritage — including the magnificent temple complexes of Bhubaneswar, the Sun Temple of Konark, and the Jagannath Temple of Puri (three of the most sacred Hindu pilgrimage sites in eastern India) — forms one of the richest cultural landscapes on the Indian subcontinent. The naturally warm bicarbonate waters, emerging from the geothermal activity in the ancient Precambrian geology of the Eastern Ghats highland zone, are traditionally associated with well-being within a long thermal tradition. The surrounding Odisha landscape of sal forests, tribal villages of the Juang, Kondh, and Santhal peoples, and the Satkosia Tiger Reserve gorge on the Mahanadi river — one of India's most dramatic river wildlife sanctuaries — gives Deulajhari Hot Spring a setting of extraordinary natural and cultural depth in one of India's most geologically ancient and culturally layered states.