Chiang Mai - Egg Hot Springs
While visiting the San Kamphaeng Hotsprings, the most well known hotspring in the Northern province, we discovered that boiling eggs in hot springs is somewhat of local obsession.
In addition to visiting the egg boiling pot and mineral foot soak, you can also see two geysers that shoot 105C (very hot) hot sulfuric water about 32 yards into the air.
After filling up on soft-boiled, half-boiled, or well-done eggs you can relax while soaking your feet in the very sulphuric mineral waters (which we also did not do but it supposedly helps to improve blood circulation and is a miracle cure-all for diseases) via a man-made concrete stream which channels the hotspring water throughout the park.
The second that you enter the hotsprings, there are eggs everywhere. Eggs in shops. Eggs in fountains. Eggs in baskets. Eggs in hot springs. Eggs on tables. Eggs being eaten. Egg shells on the ground. Duck eggs. Chicken eggs. Quail eggs. Eggs EGGS!
We were tempted to...but passed on purchasing eggs for cooking, complete with a bamboo basket with which to lower them into the water.
We were tempted to...but passed on purchasing eggs for cooking, complete with a bamboo basket with which to lower them into the water.
Hot Spring Egg boiling instructions
Eggs for sale!
On a mission to boil their baskets of eggs.
Eggs in the hot spring boiling process.
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Cool! (Or should I rather say... hot!)
Sorry, that was awfully corny but I'm not the best at witty comments.