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Hot Springs & Wat Hat Som Paen
 About 1km east of Jansom Ranong Mineral Hot Springs at Wat Tapotaram. Water temperature hovers around 65 íC,hot enough to boil eggs. You can bathe in rustic rooms (10B per person) where you scoop water from separate hot and cool water tanks and sluice the mixed water over your body Thai style. 
Don't get inside the tanks and spoil the water. The Jansom Thara Ranong Hotel also pipes water from the springs into the hotel, where you can take a 42 íC mineral bath in its large public spa for 100B.
    This mine hot spring has been occurred out of nature. Its temperature is been occurred of nature. Its temperature is 65 íC. There are tree mine hot spings - the father spring, mother spring and daughter. 
There is the garden along these springs. The atmossphere is calm and cool. One can bathe and bathe and drink the water from there spring.
 
   If you continue on the road past the hot springs for about 7km, you'll come to Hat Som Paen, a former tin-mining community.At Wat Hat Som Paen, vissitors feed fruit to the huge black carp ( plaa phluang ) in the temple stream. The faithful believe these carp are thewada, a type of angel, and it's forbidden to catch and eat them. Legend has it that those who do contract leprosy.

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