Indian water lilies
Open on the surface in summer.
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Yes: complete renewal every three days makes it among the cleanest open water, and the greenish colour is minerals, not pollution.
Ten minutes by bus or car from Keszthely; about an hour from the northern shore. Pairs with the Festetics Palace in Keszthely in one day.
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The world's largest thermal lake you can swim in: Hévíz lies six kilometres from Balaton's western end, four and a half hectares of mineral water renewed completely every three days by a cave spring thirty-eight metres down pumping forty thousand cubic metres a day. The heat is the marvel: 33-36 degrees in summer and never below 23 in deep winter, so swimming amid steam and snow is the famous Hévíz sight. You swim in a real lake with a mud floor and Indian water lilies open on the surface, not a pool — and the sulphurous mud from the bottom is smeared on joints, the reason people have come since 1795. The round timber bathhouse on the water with its walkways and cabins dates from the nineteenth century, with the spa town and its gardens around. No more than thirty unbroken minutes in the water is advised — the medical rule posted on every door.
Open on the surface in summer.
From the bottom, smeared on joints for two centuries.
Round nineteenth-century timber on the water.
Dr. Schulhof Vilmos sétány 1, Hévíz