Dei Dei Hot Springs PNG

Dei Dei Hot Springs is located near Mendi in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, a remote highland area in the interior of the world's second-largest island, where calcic and bicarbonate thermal springs emerge from geological formations shaped by the complex tectonic collision between the Australian and Pacific plates that created Papua New Guinea's dramatic mountain ranges. The calcium-bicarbonate mineral composition of these springs carries properties valued for musculoskeletal wellness and the warming thermal immersion particularly appreciated in the cool highland climate of the Southern Highlands, where altitude brings cold temperatures to this equatorial mountain landscape. Papua New Guinea's Southern Highlands—home to Huli Wigmen, one of the world's most visually striking Indigenous cultures, and to the remarkable biodiversity of one of Earth's largest remaining tropical forest systems—frames Dei Dei Hot Springs within a natural and cultural landscape of extraordinary complexity and richness.