Some experienced travelers like to save money by purchasing cheap airplane tickets and discount hotel rooms or cheap vacation packages so that they have money left over to experience extreme spa treatments.
Not all spas are about aroma therapeutic oils and soft music. Snake massages, man eating fish, below freezing cryogenic chambers and bird poop facials are just a few of the treats in store for the adventurous. Innovative spas purportedly offering a variety of amazing health benefits have created original treatments based on local culture and customs.
The following are examples of extreme spa treatments from around the world:
Spas in countries like Finland and Slovakia offer an Arctic inspired treatment called cryotherapy. Guests enter a cryogenic chamber where the temperature is usually set at negative 184 degrees Fahrenheit. Guests are only able to spend a couple of minutes inside the chamber since longer would cause hypothermia and death. Advocates of cryotherapy claim that it removes toxins and strengthens the immune system.
In Sivas, Turkey patrons in need of a pedicure stick their feet in doctor fish infested water, and sit back and relax as hundreds of tiny mouths consume the dead skin off their feet.
Manhattans Shizuka New York Day Spa offers a bird poop facial. It claims that nightingale droppings brighten, heal and re-texturize skin due to their natural enzymes and guanine.
At a Czech beer spa guests soak their bones in a warm, foamy beery bath, eventually exiting somewhat sticky but fully relaxed. This treatment is supposed to have curative effects on the complexion and hair and relieve muscle tension, warm up joints and support the immune system.
Ada Baraks Carnivorous Plant Farm and Spa in Northern Israel offers a slithering, slinking massage performed by snakes. Clients claim that the snakes help ease migraines and soothe sore muscles.
Massages by fire can be had in Beijing, China. Fire cupping is a traditional Chinese method of acupressure and is supposed to alleviate scores of ills from muscle pains to respiratory afflictions like the common cold.
The Chocolate Spa at Hotel Hershey offers a unique selection of cocoa themed treatments where visitors can luxuriate in chocolate without dealing with all the unwanted calories.
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