Khaung Daing Natural Hot Spring

Khaung Daing Natural Hot Spring is a natural chloride-mineral thermal spring on the western shore of Inle Lake in Shan State, Myanmar, used by the Intha lake-dwelling community and visitors to this UNESCO-aspirant lake landscape for therapeutic bathing in the geothermally active volcanic zone beneath one of Southeast Asia's highest highland lakes. The Khaung Daing springs emerge near the village of the same name, which also serves as the departure point for boat trips to the Inle Lake market circuit, integrating natural thermal bathing into the broader cultural experience of one of Myanmar's most visited and scenically spectacular destinations. Inle Lake's unique floating village culture, leg-rowing fishermen, floating gardens, and the endemic Intha people — whose civilisation has developed entirely around life on and above a lake — give the hot spring experience here a uniquely Burmese cultural setting of remarkable depth and visual beauty.