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Do you know anything about a Russian banya? And what about mineral baths? There is something interesting for you and your body! Discover Russian way for staying healthy!

Select regions for your private tours with our experienced local guides:

Moscow or Saint Petersburg

Moscow and Saint Petersburg offer you traditional Russian steam bath - banya which is a small room or building designed as a place to experience dry or wet heat sessions, or an establishment with one or more of these facilities. The steam and high heat make the bathers perspire. In a "black banya" (or, more precisely, "black-way"), the smoke escapes through a hole in the ceiling, while in "white banyas" ("white-way") there are exhaust pipes to vent the smoke. In the former, the escaping smoke darkens the banya's interior wood. Both styles are characterized by boulder stones, clay balls and large cauldrons for the hot water as well as stone stoves with a tank to heat the water. The firewood is usually birch. A black banya is more rudimentary than a white banya. Banya temperatures often will exceed 93 C  (199 F) and special felt hats are typically worn to protect the head from this intense heat. In the winter, people may roll in the snow with no clothes on or dip in lakes where holes have been cut into the ice.

Caucasian Mineral Waters

Kislovodsk it's a spa city in the North Caucasus region of Russia. Founded in 1803 as a spa based on abundant local mineral springs, Kislovodsk has become one of the largest health resorts in Russia, with seven springs and more than 40 sanitoriums and rest homes. Its carbonaceous mineral water, Narzan, is bottled and distributed throughout the country. Another spa city next to Kislovodsk is Essentuki. Of all mineral springs of Yessentuki, about twenty are of medical value. Sodium carbonic hydrocarbonate-chloride (i.e. salt-alkaline) water of springs #4 and #17, which have made the health resort popular, are the most famous and therapeutically valuable. The hot springs (35.5°–46 °C) similar to the waters of springs #4 and #17 in their structure have been led to the surface in the vicinities of the village of Novoblagodarnoye (8 kilometers (5.0 mi) north of Yessentuki).

 

 

The Ural

Ural has not only beatiful nature, but also known as one of the best resort region and it's a right place for trying the salt therapy (halotherapy), which is becoming a fast moving trend to treat a variety of ailments including allergies, psoriasis, and respiratory problems. If you have any of these you should definetly think about Wellness Tour to Ural and even without health problems it's still a great chance to get a full rest.

 

The Siberia

Tyumen is one the largest cities in Siberia, located on the Tura River 2,500 kilometers (1,600 mi) east of Moscow. Today Tyumen is an important business center and the home of many companies active in Russia's oil and gas industry. The winters are cold in the city, like in all the outlying region, but they have one attraction that helps to cope those winter. Those are natural hot springs under the open sky. Siberian winter, when the air temperature is about -40 degrees (F/C) and then the hot spring bathing with the water naturally warmed up to 131 F degrees.

 

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