Heviz, Hungary Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

HÉVÍZ , 8km northeast of Keszthely, boasts the second-largest thermal lake ( Gyógy-tó ) in the world after Lake Tarawera in New Zealand. The temperature rarely drops below 30°C even during winter, when steam billows from the lake and its thermal stream, and Indian waterlilies flourish on its surface. The lake is replenished by up to eighty million litres of warm water a day gushing up from springs 1km underground, and is completely flushed out every couple of days. Exploited since medieval times for curative purposes as well as for tanning leather, the lake was salubriously … more »