The Hot Springs in Uganda
Hot Springs in Uganda are natural attractions that travellers come to the country to visit and experience the boiling waters that come from the ground/earth. Uganda is sometimes known as the motherland of Africa that’s why it is called the pearl of Africa and this is because it is gifted with a wide range of physical features that you should not miss whenever you are in Uganda. Above all, Uganda is blessed with a variety of unique wildlife and a rewardable scenic landscape. The natural wonder hot spring form to be one of the most stunning and amazing attractions in Uganda.
How are hot springs were formed?
Hot springs are formed when water meets the headed rock and produce an emergence of geothermal–heated groundwater from the earth’s crust. In this regard, the deep percolation of water into the crust causes it to be heated by the hot rocks. Then heat can be forced to back up under pressure to bubble like a hot spring.
However, Uganda is blessed with 7 rewardable hot springs and they are positioned in different regions of the country, more especially in western Uganda. Some of these unique hot springs are traditionally believed by the local people to have divine power and perform miracles. Hence, in the communities around the hot springs, people visit some of these hot springs to worship their power to seek for wealth, children, healing, and also to be blessed. People continue to believe that gods reside in the hot springs.
Scientifically, it is known that water from the hot springs contain large amounts of minerals and chemicals that are known to have medicinal values in them and they can cure some of the human diseases like stomach, malaria, headache, and many more. It is known that there are people who usually visit some of these hot springs every week to bathe in order to be healed. When bathing in a hot spring, the steam just rises above the rippling water to bathe you in beads of moisture. This is quite similar to the one in the sauna, albeit fully clothed.
Some hot springs have a high water temperature which is capable of boiling eggs in 10 minutes. The water in the spring can warm up to 120 degrees Celsius.
Uganda boasts of 7 major hot springs that attract a lot of tourists to the Uganda safaris and these include; Kitagata Hot springs, Sempaya Hot Spring, Rwagimba Hot Spring, Amoropii Hot springs, Burring Hot Springs, Ihamba Hot Springs and Kibiro Hot Springs.
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Credit: Uganda Budget Safaris
