Need room and sauna in Finland Sun sauna bath the Finnish

Sauna in Finnand
Sauna in Finland
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The sauna belongs to Finland, such as water to the sea. Darfur talks, the very fact that over two million saunas in Finland, but only 5.2 million inhabitants. Heavenly states for sauna lovers.

"In Finland the sauna belongs just to the family," said Matti Kivinen by the International Sauna Society in Helsinki. An invitation to sauna bathing is honor and confidence between businessmen and the normal procedure. The sauna in Finland belongs to the simple "way of life.

Even babies will constantly be put strength into the sauna. Kivinen: "The children learn so from childhood: This must be a good place, because I always go there with mother, father and close relatives." This behavior establishes itself in the heads of the children. The result: The sauna accompanies almost every Finn for a lifetime.

The sauna is ubiquitous in Finland. Even without multi-family houses in need of a little on the sauna bathing. "There is often a community sauna, which is shared by the tenant after a sauna plan, wei? Matti Kivinen. In free-standing home is sometimes a sauna in the basement, in older houses in a separate building. Who wants to build his house traditionally begins, is still at the sauna.

Earlier generations brought in Finnish sauna room even their children. Because the sauna was the only room in which it hot? There was water. ? Au addition there was nice and warm - what was with the freezing temperatures that prevail in the far north often not be neglected.

In traditional terms, the sauna is a small wooden house that is separated from the dwelling. Ideally, it can contain Mowgli grows close to a lake or river, so you dive for each sauna session in the water.
Finnish smoke sauna - the tradition is making a comeback

The traditional Finnish smoke sauna
The traditional Finnish smoke sauna
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The traditional sauna, the smoke sauna (Savusauna) is. However, nobody has to sit there in the smoke and smoking is allowed either. The smoke sauna is always heated with wood and has no chimney. The smoke permeates the stones of the open furnace passes on the inside of the sauna along and then let out by special wall and roof holes. The inner walls of the sauna are so stained by the smoke, dark black. The heating takes several hours, it might open the door to the sauna, because more time must be wood refills. The swimming begins when the fire extinguished and the smoke is drawn.

Currently experiencing the smoke sauna in Finland a comeback. "Many people built on the banks of the lakes as a second new smoke saunas sauna. The number of smoke saunas grows constantly, wei? Rolf-A. Pieper, managing director of the German Sauna Association in Bielefeld.
Aufgu? and birch branch whips

Finnish Sauna whip made of birch twigs
Finnish Sauna whip made of birch twigs
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The infusion necessarily belongs to: the "Loyly" usually makes the person who sits next to the Bucket. It is unublich in Finland, Duftole admit to pouring water.

Gang Hilfiger is the takeaway from birch twigs. The slight "whips" of the skin with birch twigs (Vihtas) massageahnlichen has a stimulating effect. Au? Addition is spread by the released essential oils is a pleasant birch aroma in the room.

Finn will not understand, incidentally, why you - should adhere to certain recommendations of the sauna bath - as usual in Germany, for good reasons. "There is no fixed time for the length of a sauna or the breaks. Each handles the here in Finland to his feeling, "said Matti Kivinen. Top priority: The main thing is feels good.

(German Sauna Association e.V.)...