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Get bare – in an excellent smooth a laughing way
The banya is a fundamental Russian experience – the Slavic version of a sauna. The travelerfriendly Sandunovskie baths have staggering interiors, however, for extra down-to-earth experiencestrive the Rzhevskie baths. The steam room is roasting warm and very humid; settle down by plunging into ice water; repeat. women and men have separate sections. Banya etiquette is to buy bunches of birch twigs and whip every other’s our bodies. Afterward, people lose up with tea, beer, and snacks within the changing place. It’s in particular invigorating on a chilly winter’s day, or with a hangover. not anything quite matches the buzzy publish-banyawarm temperature and you will have by no means felt so easy. You’ll have to be relaxed with general nudity.

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