Comments on: Taking the Plunge in a Turkish Bath http://www.accentinns.com/blog/2012/plunge-turkish-bath/ Life, travel, community, and Accent Inns Sat, 01 Jun 2013 01:53:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: trey88 http://www.accentinns.com/blog/2012/plunge-turkish-bath/comment-page-1/#comment-6657 trey88 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:11:36 +0000 http://www.accentinns.com/blog/?p=3034#comment-6657 If you have never had Turkish Bath, you really have no idea what you are missing. Just to experience the feeling of relaxation is comparable to none. After the session you feel like you could float from being so relaxed or fly from feeling so invigorated. An experience beyond your imagination Al Yakhor Turkish bath is located in Quiet Street where next to Petra Palace hotel. Just 200m far from main gate of Petra. Freshen up with a centuries-old spa treatment! A scrub in a Turkish bath is not just part of a bathing ritual, it also helps with detox and enhancing our immune system. Indulge in a hammam and get clean on the inside as well as out! The Turkish bath, also known as a hammam, is the Middle Eastern variant of a steam bath. During the Ottoman Empire, Turkish baths served as places of social gathering and ritual bathing. Today people use the hammam as a pampering form of cleansing and relaxation. How the hammam works The Turkish bath is modeled on the Roman system of bathing with a warm room, hot room and cool room. The bather enters the warm room where their body warms up, then enters the hot room, or steam room, which has water basins along the walls and a large heated stone platform in the center. The bather can rest on the stone to increase body temperature and promote sweating, then rinse off at the water basins. One of the main specialties of the Turkish bath is the foam and scrub massage where a masseuse or masseur lathers up the bather with a special cloth sack full of foam and scrubs off dirt and dead skin with a loofah. The bather can then continue to relax in the hot room and enjoy the therapeutic benefits of the steam and heat. Address : Al Yakhor Hammam Jordan - Petra - Next To Petra Palace Hotel E-Mail : alyakhor@gmail.com Tel : 962 775 766 861 - 962 779831414 - 962 03 2154944 the offer free Transportation from your hotel and back to . If you have never had Turkish Bath, you really have no idea what you are missing. Just to experience the feeling of relaxation is comparable to none. After the session you feel like you could float from being so relaxed or fly from feeling so invigorated.

An experience beyond your imagination

Al Yakhor Turkish bath is located in Quiet Street where next to Petra Palace hotel. Just 200m far from main gate of Petra. Freshen up with a centuries-old spa treatment! A scrub in a Turkish bath is not just part of a bathing ritual, it also helps with detox and enhancing our immune system. Indulge in a hammam and get clean on the inside as well as out!
The Turkish bath, also known as a hammam, is the Middle Eastern variant of a steam bath. During the Ottoman Empire, Turkish baths served as places of social gathering and ritual bathing. Today people use the hammam as a pampering form of cleansing and relaxation.

How the hammam works

The Turkish bath is modeled on the Roman system of bathing with a warm room, hot room and cool room. The bather enters the warm room where their body warms up, then enters the hot room, or steam room, which has water basins along the walls and a large heated stone platform in the center. The bather can rest on the stone to increase body temperature and promote sweating, then rinse off at the water basins. One of the main specialties of the Turkish bath is the foam and scrub massage where a masseuse or masseur lathers up the bather with a special cloth sack full of foam and scrubs off dirt and dead skin with a loofah. The bather can then continue to relax in the hot room and enjoy the therapeutic benefits of the steam and heat.

Address : Al Yakhor Hammam
Jordan – Petra – Next To Petra Palace Hotel
E-Mail : alyakhor@gmail.com
Tel : 962 775 766 861 – 962 779831414 – 962 03 2154944

the offer free Transportation from your hotel and back to .

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