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last update:Jun112021October 16, 2013June 11, 2021Go tocommentsby Santiago H

World’s top 5 strangest and weirdest saunas

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The sauna is a place for relaxation in Finland and abroad. And it is one of everybody’s favorite parts of traveling to Finland (myself included). Saunas really are something that stretches outside of the country, as evidenced by the fact that sauna is the only Finnish word that has been widely adopted by other languages. Not long ago we saw the 3 types of Finnish…

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last update:Oct092023September 25, 2013October 9, 20231Commentby Santiago H

Types of Sauna in Finland

Posted in Finnish traditions, Interesting facts

Even though I’m not in Finland these days, I do continue to have (and enjoy!) my weekly sauna. The saunas outside Finland are strange: people wear towels around their waists, you can’t throw water on the heated stones (there’s an electric system that does it automatically) and a lot of the time the temperature is lower than it should be. But is this a sauna?…

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