Car Hire Kos - Hot Springs at Thermes
The perfect day out in your Kos hire car
Agios Fokas, a recently developed tourist resort, lies just 8 kilometres from Kos Town on the island’s southern coast. In this town, the bubbling of the world-renowned thermal sulphur springs known as ‘the Thermes’ draw massive flocks of holiday-makers every year. Agios Fokas proves to be more than worthy of a stop on your car hire excursion around Kos.
The beach of Agios Fokas, although it doesn’t flow with golden sand, proves to be extremely popular as a swimming destination. The new tourist developments in the area are geared towards exciting activities for family members of all ages, so parents should be prepared for the onslaught of pleading children.
Holiday-makers can choose from a massive list of activities that includes jet-skiing, canoeing, wakeboarding and banana-boating. The distance between this beach and the Thermes springs is less than a mile and a half, and with the coastline route littered with restaurants and traditional taverns it shouldn’t prove too arduous. If you are going in the mid day with small children we suggest taking a your hire car or booking a taxi.
These natural spa pools are undoubtedly one of Kos’ major attractions, a stop for most on the kos car hire circui – and with a scientifically-acclaimed healing effect these springs really must be used in order to determine the quality of its effects. Scientists have confirmed that the spring water is extremely beneficial for skin ailments. The layout of these pools, situated at the end of a pebbled beach and surrounded by rock pools – generate a daunting yet exciting notion that really makes you feel as if you are in the presence of a great and powerful aura.
The temperature of these springs can reach 50ºC which may be alarmingly hot for some first-time visitors. Locals recommend that you enter the springs nearer the back first in order to acclimatise your body to the unnatural heat – before progressing into hotter waters when you are more comfortable. Remember to take time to acclimatize after the baths before driving your off in you car hire around Kos again
For those tourists in desperate need of healing, there is a fissured rock from which the main sulphur blast escapes – ensuring that the water immediately surrounding the rock is hotter than anywhere else in the springs. This area is marked out with red symbols on the side of the rock pools, both to inform and to warn.
Tourists must also ensure that they do not wear any precious jewellery when immersing themselves as the sulphur content will foul and degrade precious metals. Kos is a very safe place and you can generally leave valuables in your hire car but we do not recommend it.
