Hot and cold in Morteza Ali Thermal Spring

It seems hard to even imagine walking in a hot and cold stream of water.

While cool water hits your right foot and warm water hits your left foot, you can enjoy visiting the rocky walls along Morteza Ali Hot (thermal) Spring.

Located in Tabas County, South Khorasan Province, the spring is a rare miraculous phenomenon in the heart of the strangest desert in Iran.

Probably, Tabas is more famous for its desert regions, but there are many interesting attractions in this wide city that relates to water and freshness.

Morteza Ali Hot Spring is one of such regions, located in one of the prettiest surrounding villages of Tabas.

The most important feature of Morteza Ali Hot Spring is that simultaneously hot and cold water is flowing in the stream; so that hot water is flowing in one side of the valley and cold water in the other side.

The density-difference between hot and cold water streams, because of the concentration of warm water and its structural difference with the running water at the river’s bed, causes them to be flowing in parallel in a long route without getting mixed.

The valley through which the water stream is flowing is called Kal-e Sardar.

There are many holes in the route of Kal-e Sardar and on the rocks of the valley. Some believe that the holes were used as settlements and there were some underground tunnels that interconnect them.

The wonders of the valley are infinite. Another interesting feature is Band-e Abbasi, a thin dam built in Safavid era by the order of Shah Abbas.

There are the traces of carvings in some parts of its walls that depict the symbol of the protective angels of water.

The best time to visit Tabas and its surrounding regions is autumn. The water level in the streams is usually high in the spring and the weather is extremely warm during the summer.

Morteza Ali Hot Spring and Shah Abbasi Dam are located on the route from Tabas to Kharv Village; about thirty kilometers away from Tabas.

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