Caldera Hot Springs — Attraction in Paja de Sombrero

A true adventure!!! Great for mountain bikes, off road motorcycles, ATV or hiking. We drive all terrain vehicles and it is a nice short pleasant adventure to drive from Caldera to the hot springs. Cars can't make it all the way down to the hot springs location so we park the truck on the open flat area some five hundred (500) meters before the hot springs spot. Going down to the hot springs, there's no signs to indicate you are on the right path, and you will rely on by passers and your Spanish language skills to ask local Panamaniam farmers: ¿Cómo llego a los pozos termales? You may find other tourists going to or returning from the hot springs. The beginning of the path to make it to the hot springs is on the right side of the road when your are coming from the Caldera Police Post. There's one point nine (1.9) kilometers from the Caldera Police Post to the starting point, the gravel path that leads down to the hot springs. Assuming that you are coming from Boquete and if you are walking, because of public transpirtation availability from Boquete to Caldera, the morning hours is the best time (1000 am - 1100am) to arrive at the starting point and begin your trek down to the hot springs, allowing you enough time to hike back to the main Caldera road to take the bus back to Boquete. The last bus from Caldera to Boquete departs Caldera by 0500pm. The bus from Boquete to Caldera departs from across the Boquete park, on the west side of the park. There's a USD$2.00 per person fee collected by...

If you can walk you can get here cheaply from Boquete by bus. It stops outside the market but just ask where. It costs maybe 2 dollars each. It drops you at the end of a rough track. If you are not happy to walk for maybe 25-35 minutes then I'd not recommend this and just get a tour for 30 ish dollars. About halfway you cross a metal bridge across a river strewn with boulders. Just after the bridge you turn left for the hot springs and right you can go down and swim in the river under the bridge. It's really lovely and I'd thoroughly recommend it.

As you head towards the springs you get to a little shack/house where they charge 2 dollars each to use the springs. There are 3. One is sooooo hot maybe 40 or more degrees but bearable. Another is a bit more comfortable and the last which is near the river is coolest but still hot. You can see gas bubbling up from underneath in all of them. They are all natural contrary to some other comments. Just some are fed by pipe as well, I guess to keep the water level up. At the one near the river you can duck through the barbed wire and go in the river very easily. Lovely to cool down afterwards and then Sun yourself on the huge boulders.

It can seem very basic but this is not charging you 10 dollars an hour for the supposed healing properties of these hot springs. It's just a local family charging a tiny amount for something naturally on their...

Lovely experience at the Caldera hot springs today. Don't expect luxury or anything like this, you are in the forest in the middle of nowhere with 3 hot springs pool and fresh water river to cool down. So peaceful, no cars no noises, just nature. It's $3 to pay at the owner when you get in and you can stay as long as you want ( we stayed 1h30min) . We had the 35 C pool all to ourselves and kept going in and out and taking a dip in the river nearby to cool down. We got changed behind a rock cause none was there but I would recommend wearing your swimsuit underneath before you arrive. Tricky to find, it is where goggle map says but the road It told us to follow was closed to the public, so take the first non paved road on the right you see with the signs Pozos termales. It's a 15 min slow drive on rough road but doable even with a non 4WD car. We saw a taxi and lower cars too but I wouldn't do it in those, we had a Kia Suv and it was fine. You have to cross 2 bridges and there is a guy by the 1st bridge that tells you where to go. We parked in a small car park at the bottom when road got too rough and walked 10 min to the end of the road (you can drive if you have a 4wd) and then from there everyone has to walk another 10 min and you arrive easily. Highly recommended. River is not as cold as the waterfalls in Boquete so its nice to swim there too. Wild...