Ai-Ais Hot Springs Resort
- Location
- Ai-Ais, Namibia
- Water type
- thermal, bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 40 °C
- pH
- 7.3
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Ai-Ais Hot Springs Resort, whose name means 'scalding hot' in the Nama language, is one of Africa's most dramatically sited thermal retreats — a lush oasis at the southern end of the Fish River Canyon, the second largest canyon on Earth, in the arid Namib landscape of southern Namibia. The fluoride-bicarbonate springs emerge at 60°C from deep granite fissures and are cooled to comfortable bathing temperatures before flowing into the resort's pools, creating a surreal contrast of warm water in the heart of extreme desert. The resort is the endpoint of the famous Fish River Canyon hiking trail, one of Africa's great multi-day treks, making Ai-Ais the ultimate reward for exhausted hikers. The combination of canyon scenery, desert solitude and therapeutic waters is truly extraordinary.