Private Wood Fired Sauna Experience from Rovaniemi
Rovaniemi, Finland
Trip Type: Day Spas
Duration: 3 hours
Enjoy this traditionally Finnish wood fired sauna experience from Rovaniemi. Enjoying a sauna is a personal thing, you should always listen to your body and do as you feel best. There is no one right way to enjoy the sauna: For the first time you could stay in for just a few minutes, depending on the temperature. After cooling down for a few minutes, go into the sauna again and stay a bit longer. When you come out of the sauna, you can just sit down and admire the beauty of nature around you. You can also can also take a dip in the lake or in wintertime roll in the snow. The wood fired sauna has the capacity for up to 6 persons.
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Enjoy this traditionally Finnish wood fired sauna experience from Rovaniemi. Enjoying a sauna is a personal thing, you should always listen to your body and do as you feel best. There is no one right way to enjoy the sauna: For the first time you could stay in for just a few minutes, depending on the temperature. After cooling down for a few minutes, go into the sauna again and stay a bit longer. When you come out of the sauna, you can just sit down and admire the beauty of nature around you. You can also can also take a dip in the lake or in wintertime roll in the snow. The wood fired sauna has the capacity for up to 6 persons.Enjoy this traditionally Finnish wood fired sauna experience from Rovaniemi. Start with a pickup from your hotel in Rovaniemi and you will be driven out to the sauna location.
The wooden stove sauna is the most common type of sauna outside of the city areas in Finland, where the electric sauna is more common. The metal stove with stones on top (kiuas) is heated with birch wood fire, and this heats the sauna room to the required temperature. If birch wood is not available any other wood will do, but well dried birch wood is preferred because of its good quality and smell, and long lasting burn. The important thing is to have a good löyly, that is when the stones are hot enough to evaporate the water thrown on them into steam that rises to the bathers.
The bather in every type of sauna sits on a high bench near the ceiling where the hot steam reaches them quickly
The wooden stove sauna is the most common type of sauna outside of the city areas in Finland, where the electric sauna is more common. The metal stove with stones on top (kiuas) is heated with birch wood fire, and this heats the sauna room to the required temperature. If birch wood is not available any other wood will do, but well dried birch wood is preferred because of its good quality and smell, and long lasting burn. The important thing is to have a good löyly, that is when the stones are hot enough to evaporate the water thrown on them into steam that rises to the bathers.
The bather in every type of sauna sits on a high bench near the ceiling where the hot steam reaches them quickly
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