Ganigobis Hot Springs
- Location
- Ganigobis, Karas, Namibia
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 38 °C
- pH
- 7.3
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.
Ganigobis Hot Springs is a natural thermal site in the Karas Region of southern Namibia, in the vicinity of the Ai-Ais/Richtersveld Transfrontier Park, where chloride-rich geothermal waters emerge in the deeply incised canyon landscape of the Fish River — home to one of Africa's most spectacular hiking routes, the five-day Fish River Canyon Trail through the southern hemisphere's largest canyon. The springs are part of the geothermal activity associated with the ancient granite rocks of the Namaqua Metamorphic Complex, which have been faulted and heated by deep crustal activity to produce the warm mineral waters that emerge in this dramatic semi-desert landscape. The vast silence, extreme heat, and star-filled skies of the southern Namibian desert, framed by the billion-year-old canyon walls of the Fish River, create an elemental backdrop for thermal bathing that is among the most geologically ancient in the world.