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TURKISH BATH - HAMMAM

Port Palace Complex - Sunny Day Resort - Varna

Turkish bath (hammam) - The modern hammam is a spacious room with soft light. The ceiling is in the shape of a dome with integrated lighting or glass opening. The floor and the walls of the hammam are warmed. The benches, too. Usually the rooms are finishes with stones, with marble, ceramic or glass mosaic. Hammam consists of some separate rooms: a hot room with temperature 45 ° C, with average room heated up toaround 40 ° C and cooling several rooms. The bath steaming shall be performed at a temperature of about 45 ° C with high humidity 70-100%. An excessivelly sweating starts. Then the body is prepared for the manual massage.

On hammam-bed body massage treatments are made, including pouring hot water from the built-in handle shower which opens pores and improves skin respiration. Massage is performed by professionally trained massagists, so called "telyatsi" on spacious warmth massage beds in two ways: at the beginning by hand, then by massage glove of horsehair - ie. "kese". After this powerful oriental peeling, a gentle soap and relaxing massage starts. To the ritual of the Turkish finishes with consecutive procedures of warming and cooling of the body and massage. After this peeling procedure, skin feels soft and smooth. After the exfoliation of dead skin cells, the bather can enjoy the hammam massage with lather, after that a water shower starts again.