This hot spring only a 10-minute walk from the monastery (Brahma Vihara Asrama), if you take the shortcut. Or drive six km east of Lovina on Jalan Seririt, take a left and travel two-km to the Banjar Tegal market, then a further two-km uphill. Motorcycle 'ojek' drivers or 'dokar' wait at this turnoff to Banjar to give you a lift.

Fifty meters on the left after the market look for the Air Panas 1-km and follow the forested road to the end. After cycling up the hill, the hot water will be a great relief. You can swim all day.

Surrounded by jungle and luxurious gardens, this is the perfect setting for a day's loafing. There are three pools of varying temperatures. Lay back in one big lovingly warm pool or another smaller pool of soft, green-yellow sulfur water, both filled by water pouring out of 'naga'-shaped pipes from the hill and pool above.

Wash and soap in the lowest. If it gets too hot, take a dip in the river. Neat and clean toilets, showers, and changing rooms available.

Open from 0800 to 1600, the complex is tidy and well maintained. No nude bathing, shampoo and soap permissible in a third pool off to the side. The pools could be peaceful, or crowded with a busload of tourists or screaming school kids. One hundred meters upstream is another, smaller 'air panas'.