Mývatn Nature Baths - 2015
Engineers in Iceland have used the geothermal 36-40°C hot water to create a 3.5 million litres man-made lagoon.
There was only the very slightest trace of a sulphur smell.
The baths opened in 2004, but people had been taking baths and steam baths in the area for centuries.
Another geothermal nature bath, The Blue Lagoon, is one of Iceland's biggest tourist attractions.
It is much closer to Reykjavik, but is not much visited by regular Icelanders.
They find the Mývatn Nature Baths more intimate and not as touristic.
A photo at the site.
Engineers in Iceland have used the geothermal 36-40°C hot water to create a 3.5 million litres man-made lagoon.
There was only the very slightest trace of a sulphur smell.
The baths opened in 2004, but people had been taking baths and steam baths in the area for centuries.
Another geothermal nature bath, The Blue Lagoon, is one of Iceland's biggest tourist attractions.
It is much closer to Reykjavik, but is not much visited by regular Icelanders.
They find the Mývatn Nature Baths more intimate and not as touristic.
A photo at the site.
