My first "Sauna and lake" experience

The best place to experience a Sauna is Finland because Finland is the country that invented it. Foreign people may believe that Sauna is a luxury activity or they have never done it before. However, for finns people is a daily experience and they used to feel relax everyday. For those who do not know what is a sauna. A sauna is a small place or room usually made by wood in which, there is steam and very high temperatures are reached, so the skin starts to sweat and all waste substances in the body are purified. After this you usually take a cold shower. Normally the Finns have the saunas in front of the lakes or in their own houses and they bathe naked there. When noticing the contrast of temperature the organism enters a state of maximum relaxation and with a great well-being. 

 When I tried for the first time here in Finland I felt really overwhelmed with the heat and steam because of that I only be there 5 minutes, but after that I could swin in the lake and I have to say that It was an amazing experience to feel the contrast in the body and be able to see nature getting relax. It is shock to me because every Finnish has their own sauna inside their houses! It has to be really expensive to build a sauna, however whe the temperature outside is below zero the contrast is incredibly comfortable!

 If you come to Finland, wherever you are, you are obliged to prove it. There are thousands of them and even you can choose the environment, whether natural in front of a beach, a lake or a country house. Or you can enjoy the experience in the core of a city.

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