Finnish baths in Lahti

The first step of a Finnish bath is to take a shower and then enter the steam room naked (except for private saunas, all saunas in Finland are also arranged for men and women to use separately, and towels are only used for sitting). When enjoying the hot steam bath, bathers pat their bodies with soaked birch branches and leaves to speed up blood circulation, open the pores of the skin as much as possible, and allow sweat to flow out of the body more smoothly. After sweating for a period of time, the bather should take a shower to clean and cool down the body (for example, if the sauna is located by a lake or during the cold winter, people simply jump directly into the lake or an ice pool dug out of the snow), and then return to the steam after the heat dissipates. The room beat and sweated, and then went back into the water to cool down. Go back and forth several times like this, the dirt in the body will be discharged, and the person will be fully relaxed. Finally, a thorough cleaning completes the Finnish bath. Be sure to eat some high-salt foods after bathing to replenish the salt lost by the body. There are millions of saunas of different sizes across Finland. It is not difficult for tourists to find this local specialty no matter where they are in any town or city. First of all, each hotel has a sauna room for guests to use. In addition to these, there are more scaled and traditional options below.