While at Gudauri, we stayed at the Marco Polo hotel. The hotel has a spa, with a small sauna, pool, and a jacuzzi. The sauna is small but fiery. It was also fun to meet Russians who wanted to talk about the infamous (and sadly, deadly) Finnish-Russian sauna world championships...
It was also interesting to see so many guests out in the snow, laying around and rubbing snow on themselves. I guess the Georgian & Russian cultures have very similar approach to sauna as we do in Finland :-)
More swimming and sauna stories can be found from the planetswimmer.com and saunablogger.cool websites. Photos and text (c) 2019 by Jari Arkko. All rights reserved. All pool and sauna photos have been taken with permission, when the facilities have been closed, or when no other guests have been present.
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