TERMALES AGUATIBIA — Attraction in Cauca

termales are open as of July 4, 2018, but my moto taxi told me that the owner is currently in negotiation with the indigenous community this week and they may shut again. Highly Recommend that you call the day of your visit to confirm that they are open.

The thermal springs offer changing rooms and lockers to store your belongings. Bring your own lock for free or rent one for 3,000 COP. The entrance is 18,000 COP. There is food to purchase at the restaurant, but it shut at 4pm. There are signs that say that outside food is prohibited, but at least when we came during the week, there were plenty of people bringing outside foods in. Not whole meals or picnics, But definitely snacks, drinks, and beers.

At the very top is a more natural (and he coldest) spring with tiny fish that “bite” gently at your feet. Kind of like those crazy fish spas that people pay money to put their feet in haha. There is a mud pool that is a bit far From the rest of the polls as well as a concrete water slide. The slide is a little rough, and definitely varies with how fast the water is pumping out at the top. I did it once, but didn’t want it to ruin my bathing suit fabric and the drop off from the slide is quite shallow if you are going fast. On the other side of the slide are five or so more hot spring pools. The one st the very top is the hottest! That One definitely felt like a real hot Tub, While the others felt like varying ranges of bath water. As you move closer to the water Source in the last pool, the water approaches pretty hot temperatures.

Overall, it cost 5,000 COP each way to get there on bus from popayan, 4,000 COP for the moto ride there, and 18,000 for the entry. Not too expensive for a day of Soaking up the mountain air and lazing about in some hot springs.

The changing room and bathrooms were well kept. The place wasn’t busy during the week. We were not able to get a moto taxi back, however. We got the number of our moto but the cell service was bad by the hot springs. Fortunately, we hailed the bus back to popayan from the side of the road. You might want to check if the bus from popayan will drop you at the springs directly to avoid the 4,000 COP moto ride there. Our bus driver told us to get off, but it might have just been because he thought we were going to the other hot springs. Ask...

I don't recommend to stay here because the entrance fee is unusually high, for what they have to offer. There are others close by and only charge half the price. Besides, the man at the entrance lied to me and gave me one price, and hours later, they wanted to charge me 60 thousand COP for putting up my own tent. Are you freaking kidding me? They offer their own dirty tents but are 80K COP, seriously? I decided to leave the place and got a very nice hotel in Popayán for 35K. Man oh man! I usually don't complain about the places I visit but these guys don't really know how to work with tourists, a family from Cali got ripped off but they had already paid in advance and had to stay. All in all, very expensive for what they offer and bad service. I didn't even take any...

A place of great natural beauty that is sadly mismanaged. Entrance is 40k COP but you have to reserve a timeslot for every thermal pool there regardless of capacity of a particular pool (think theme park queue for a ride). Mask wearing rules are inconsistent - you have to wear it outside the pool but not at all times (transiting between neighbouring pools for example). Worst of all is the temperature of the pools. Only one is a really warm (and busiest) one the rest are at best body temperature or colder. You are also limited to 20 minuter per pool and a guy with a megaphone urges you to leave. Could be...