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Sauna on a roll...
Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 4/7/08 | Reuters

Posted on 04/07/2008 5:43:04 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

BARNAUL, Russia (Reuters) - Cannot afford to install a sauna in your home? A Russian inventor might have the answer -- the mobile sauna.

Converted from a military truck, Igor Chupin offers clients a session in the back of his GAZ-66 truck for 1000 roubles ($42.37) per hour.

"What Russian guy doesn't love his banya! One day I had the idea to put a bathhouse on wheels and to drive wherever I want!" said Chupin, a self-taught inventor from the Altai region of southern Siberia.

Russians adore saunas, or banyas, spending hours in the steam rooms with friends, swapping stories over tea or vodka. Many hit themselves or others with dried birch leaves to improve the circulation.

Chupin said it took him months to build the traveling banya offers the real Russian experience. It has a 400-litre (88-gallon) water tank on top to provide the steam. It is heated with a wood-fired stove.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: roll; sauna

Men sit in a mobile sauna that is mounted on a four-wheel drive truck in a forest in Barnaul in the Altai region April 5, 2008. A local craftsman installed the Russian sauna, or banya, in the cabin of a four wheel-drive personnel carrier and said the rugged army vehicle can master almost any terrain. (Andrei Kasprishin/Reuters)


1 posted on 04/07/2008 5:43:04 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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I haven’t tried the dried birch leaves before,, cool.


2 posted on 04/07/2008 5:44:19 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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To: NormsRevenge

Dude.


3 posted on 04/07/2008 5:46:21 PM PDT by jdm (Sign you've got a crappy job: your boss asks if you're on MySpace and if you'll add him as a friend.)
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To: NormsRevenge
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Aaaaahhh! That's just wrong!

And fellow freeper siberian-psycho --- PING --- to you!

4 posted on 04/07/2008 5:55:59 PM PDT by swampdweller (Live Free or Die Hard)
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To: jdm

I wished I had done that to my old chevy van,, nothing like a good sauna to bake in..


5 posted on 04/07/2008 5:56:05 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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To: NormsRevenge
Is it just me, or did this make anyone else think of the old Nazi gas vans?


6 posted on 04/07/2008 6:05:11 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (I'm not voting FOR John McCain -- I'm voting AGAINST Hillary/Obama)
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To: NormsRevenge

Looks kind of gay.


7 posted on 04/07/2008 6:22:28 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 21 days away from outliving Steve Rubell)
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To: NormsRevenge

Use black birch for the wintergreen scent. As for me, I’ll use da cedar boughs, eh? My uncle said it made a big hit wit’ the Parisian ladies back in ‘44!


8 posted on 04/08/2008 9:16:42 AM PDT by magslinger (cranky right-winger)
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To: NormsRevenge

Who knew that bathhouses went mobile? Would be a big hit in San Francisco.


9 posted on 04/08/2008 9:30:53 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (The Presidential election is a race to the bottom. Which Party will out stupid the other to lose ?)
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