Jakrem Hot Spring Meghalaya

Jakrem Hot Spring in Meghalaya is one of northeastern India's best-developed geothermal spa facilities, located 64 km from Shillong in the West Khasi Hills where bicarbonate-rich thermal waters emerge from granite bedrock in the land of the Khasi indigenous people. The warm springs at around 40°C feed a government-managed bathing complex used for skin and musculoskeletal therapy, drawing visitors from Shillong and Guwahati seeking an alternative to the region's better-known living root bridges and wettest places on Earth. Meghalaya's extraordinary biodiversity — subtropical broadleaf forests harboring clouded leopards and Hoolock gibbons — surrounds the spring in a natural setting of rainforest richness found nowhere else in South Asia.