Ma'in Hot Springs

Ma'in Hot Springs — Hammamat Ma'in — between Madaba and the Dead Sea in central Jordan are one of the Middle East's most spectacular and accessible thermal sites: a series of powerful hot mineral springs and waterfalls cascading down a dramatic basalt gorge, with the largest waterfall dropping 45 metres in a curtain of 63°C mineral water that creates a natural steam bath at its base. The chloride-sodium mineral waters, emerging from deep volcanic fissures in the Dead Sea transform zone, have been used therapeutically since the time of Herod the Great, who is recorded as having bathed here for his various ailments. The Evason Ma'in Six Senses Resort, built into the basalt gorge below the falls, channels these extraordinary thermal waters into one of the Middle East's finest spa facilities. The visual drama of the falls, steam clouds and black volcanic landscape against the Dead Sea basin panorama makes Ma'in one of the most viscerally impressive thermal sites in the entire region.