Remember That Time in Turkey?...

While in Cappadocia last weekend I and the rest of my group visited something called a Hamam a Turkish bath. These bathes are descendants of Roman bathes and visiting one was one of the highlights of my trip so far. The basic premise of the Bath is that you disrobe and then cover yourself with a specific kind of towel (which has a name in Turkish but i cannot recall it) and then enter a very hot room and lay down on very hot marble floors, puring cold water on yourself when you get too hot, there is also a sauna adjacent to said room the wall of which is so hot I'm fairly sure it hissed when i pressed my back against it. After you have sweated enough in this room and your skin has sufficiently softened you sit and wait for one of the attendants to call you on, he slaps you quite hard on the back (I do not know why but he did it to everyone) then washes you quite thoroughly ( I was amazed at the amount of filth he removed, though working in feilds for six hours a day every day may have had something to do with that) and then massages you before throwing startlingly cold water at you and sending you off to change and luxuriate in the sensation of being utterly absolutely clean. After a short tea service we were done, and I must say it is one of the highlights of my trip so far.