The turkish bath in the video (the first one) is the one we visited in Antalya. Its 700 years old, all marble inside. Like I said before the turkish bath was a very interesting experience, with emphasis on interesting. Men massage men and women massage women, anything else is considered inappropriate.
Turkish bath consists of well obviously the bath part, peeling, soap massage and finished off with an oil massage.
We arrive there and the man shows us into the womens part of the hamam, there a little lady greets us and puts us into a small dressing room and tells us with gestures (she didnt speak a lot of english) to take off our clothes. I did gestures as well asking if she meant everything and pulled the string of my underwear and yes she meant EVERYTHING. We take off our clothes and she comes back with what looked like a tablecloth and wrapped it round us, gave us a pair of slippers and gestures for us to follow her. We do so and walk through a door (from the time people were only 150 cm tall) minding our head into the bath part of the hamam.
There another little bigger turkish lady takes our hand and pulls us into a steamy room with marble benches and sinks, takes the tablecloths off us and orders us to SIT next to a sink, and starts pouring hot water over us with a bowl and gestures for us to continue, which we do. About 30-40 minutes later she comes, takes my hand and gestures for me to follow her into the next room. There she tells my to lie down on my stomach on this marble table and the peeling starts. She rubbed my body with a peeling glove to get rid of all dead skin (and believe me there was plenty), some of us was quite afraid of getting fingerd and well if i tell you she wasnt shy, i hope you understand what i mean, and if you dont i can tell you she was very close to my private parts quite a few times. Turn around she orders when she was finished with my backside and starts rubbing the front side of my body. Sit she then orders and she rubbed my arms, and asked if i wanted peeling for my face, ok i said and well imagine how happy i was when i realise that the glove she is using for my face is the same one she just used to rub my ass!! Come she says and takes my to a sink, SIT and when im sitting down, she pored warm water over me to get rid of all the dead skin she has peeled off.
Come and i follow and lie down on the marble table again and she brings this huge soap bubble and starts the soap massage wich was quite nice. Turnaround she orders and well imagine a soapy body and a marble table, i thought i would fly off the table (she made sure i didnt) after the soap massage it was back to the sink trying not to slip on the marble and she rinsed my off. Offered shampooing (i did that the second time i was there and well it wasnt like when you go to get your haircut but actually quite nice) and when finished pulled me with her wrapped a towel round me and called for the little lady who came and picked my up and took my to the massage room and gave my a full body oilmassage.
The second time i was there i also had a facial, starting with a mudmask and followed by a facemassage so nice.
Everything is then finished off with a cup of applethe.
I have never been so clean and had a smoother skin in my entire life so i can definetly recommend it. But like i said the experience was intersting.
