Turkish Bath Tour in Cappadocia
Steam baths (hamam) have been popular in Turkey for thousands of years, many of them surviving from Hellenic and Romans and then perfected by the Seljuk and Ottoman Turks and has continued even until today. You can try a Turkish bath with a private transfer in Goreme, Avanos or Urgup in Cappadocia. You can book it in advance with Walkabout’s Cappadocia Travel Packages listed below;
Upon entering the hamam, you will find yourself in a dressing room, which is surrounded by private cubicles where you dress. Your attendant will give you a cotton wrap, or pestemal, and a pair of slippers( terlik) along with a key to your cubicle.
Once you have removed all your clothing and wrapped the cotton cloth around you sarong style like a skirt, you are ready to go.
Your attendant will ask you if you need a soap, towel or shampoo. You'll be given the choice of bathing yourself or receiving a scrub, or massage.
Working Up A Sweat In a Turkish Bath
You're taken to a warm, humid room with a raised stone platform (gobektas) in the center, surrounded by bathing alcoves, in pretty coloured quartz tiles. The tiles remove static electricity from the air, and help to relax the mind and body. The light, diffused through glass in the ceiling is soft and relaxing.
You lay or sit on the platform, which is heated, and work up a sweat. The attendant then leads you to one of the basins, and you're scrubbed cleaner than you ever have been, and again. She uses a coarse mitt to remove layers of dead skin, then comes the soap. She uses a lacy cloth, like an icing bag, and blows through it to create bubbles so you're covered from head to toe with white frothy bubbles.
Then your attendant (tellak for men and natir for women) will pour hot water on you and then begin to scrub every square inch of your body. Basically, every millimeter of dead and dirty skin is scrubbed off, even the skin between your fingers and toes.
Next, you are doused in warm water again. This is to allow you to clean yourself.
For the massage you go back to the stone platform, After the massage you are handed towels and then taken to the cool room to cool down and drink tea.
After your rest, it is time to head back to the cubicle to get dressed. Although a scrub and massage generally takes an hour and a half, you can take as much time as you need.
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