Things You Don't know About Ikogosi Warm Springs

The Ikogosi Warm Springs is a tourist attraction located at Ikogosi, a town in Ekiti State, southwestern Nigeria. Flowing abreast the warm spring is another cold spring which meets the warm spring at a confluence, each maintaining its thermal properties.

Ikogosi Warm Springs is yet another magnificent creation within the African giant country. It is a natural wonder where warm and cold spring flows side by side. The two springs flow with each maintaining its thermal properties.

No doubt it a place to visit as it gives a perfect scenery of romance. It has a modern and African recreational facility like swimming pool, chalets, herbal farms, souvenir shops, and so on. Research recorded it as one of the eight warm springs in the world with a temperature of 70oC at the source and 37oC at the confluence.

The spring is surrounded beautifully with natural and rich vegetation.

Flowing alongside the warm spring is a cold spring, converging and maintaining their thermal properties.The springs sprout out and flow with a constant temperature and volume all-year round.

A myth surrounding the origin and discovery of the Warm and Cold.

Spring is that the warm and cold springs were the two wives of a great hunter. One of his wives was said to be temperamental while the other was a quiet woman. One day, the two wives had a fight and after being rebuked by their husband, the temperamental wife changed to the warm spring while the quiet one turned to the cold spring.

Ikogosi Spring is known for its unique curative power. It is widely-believed to have some kind of therapeutic effect which relieves body aches and all sorts of ailments.

It is definitely a tourist attraction and lots of tourists visiting the place take advantage of the large warm water swimming pool provided for this purpose and other recreational needs.

MORE AT NANAHUB.COM