Anyone who has taken a bit of Spanish will know that "baños" means "bath" (or in some cases, "bathroom") in Spanish. So you would be correct to assume that there was some type of bathing activity available at this so-called, "Baños Morales". While most people will tell you that the baths at Baños Morales are "thermal" , I'd personally be hard-pressed to classify them as such. More like "luke-warm" bath. But the location, overlooking the purplish-colored mountains, coupled with a quaint South American small town vibe made it hard to be disappointed.
There were actually three different pools available for bathing in, each terraced alongside one another to allow for overflow into the lower pool. The pool closest to the springs was reserved for "taking the thermal waters", and had a bright orange color, apparently due to the high iron content. It was walled off by concrete and about 4 feet deep with pebbles on the bottom. The next pool down was designated as the "kids pool", and the lowest pool was the "sports pool". As was the general trend with our mid-week visit to the mountains, we were the only visitors in the pools during our visit (although we did see other visitors coming and going just before and after us). And given the fact that the pool closest to the spring was still a bit cool, we had no interest in checking out either of the "kids" or "sports" pools.
We swam around in the pools for about 10 minutes before deciding that it was actually freezing and totally not worth swimming in. As hard as we tried to convince ourselves otherwise, the 50 F air temps coupled with the not-so-warm water temps were not as inviting as we hoped.
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