Health is the most important theme of this year's international tourism exhibition ADVENTUR 2020. For the first time, the exhibition will feature a space dedicated to health, relaxation, and well-being. The most famous Lithuanian wellness centers, sanatoriums, hotels and spa. "We are creating a place of emotions, smells, colors and a good feeling," says Lilijana Dirsienė, the project manager of the exhibition.
For many travelers today, it is no longer enough to just lie down by the pool in a beautiful hotel and spend their vacation week like that. Everyday fatigue and stress are more often relieved in other ways: on extreme trips, hiking through deserts, climbing mountains, or trying to regain strength in unusual places and unique SPA centers.
Lithuania's nature is grateful for its health benefits, and tourism organizers are taking advantage of this. They are creating wellness parks, walking trails, water courses, and nature-inspired SPA treatments.
Amber SPA
For millions of years, amber has been accumulating energy from nature. Today, it gives that energy and health-promoting succinic acid to people. An amber-encrusted infrared sauna, a massage with amber dust and amber oil on an amber-encrusted table, amber water – unexpected, interesting, soothing, reduces inflammation, improves blood circulation and strengthens the body's immune system. Amber SPA procedures can be found not only in SPA centers located by the sea, but also in the sanatorium "Eglė" and Panevėžys "Etno SPA".
Milk, beer, apple and forest berry baths
A warm beer bath under the open sky in Northern Lithuania, in the Lėven Landscape Reserve, can be a real adventure. If you don’t feel like beer, the hosts can fill the bath with milk or herbal decoction. Traveling around Lithuania, you will find baths with mineral water, forest berries, apples, healing mud, goat’s milk. It is said that this recipe of Queen Cleopatra preserves youth, relieves fatigue and moisturizes the skin.
Oak, buckwheat, cranberry, poppy, cannabis massages
It seems that Lithuanians have mastered using whatever is closest to hand for spa treatments. You can easily find a spa where they will scrub your body with oak bark, ground chestnuts, seaside sand, poppy, hemp or cranberry puree, wrap you with burdock, dandelion, sea buckthorn, and prepare a face mask from rowan, plantain, apple, or nettle.
One of the participants of this year's tourism exhibition "Adventur", a traveler, a tour operator "Travel Planet", the head of Gabrielė Štaitė told us what strange, interesting and unexpected wellness procedures can be found in the world.
Oil baths
Many things are made from oil, but have you ever imagined that oil would be used for beauty treatments? In Azerbaijan, this is not surprising. Even the legendary traveler Mark Paul noticed the special properties of the oil extracted in this country. At the Naftalan Oil Wellness and Beauty Resort, you will be convinced that oil has healing properties and has a positive effect on the skin, bones, and muscles, and will offer to try warm oil baths.
Salt Hotel
We know that salt has a positive effect on the respiratory tract, salt rooms can be found in any of our resorts. However, in Bolivia, in the salt desert of Uyuni, you can find not only a room, but also an entire hotel built of salt. Its walls, floors, even beds with tables and chairs are made of salt. Sleeping in such an unusual hotel, you can relax all night.
Hot mud bed
New Zealand has a unique place that is so strange that it is worth trying it out on your own skin. There is a beautiful white beach on the Coromandel Peninsula. Don't be surprised if you are offered to rent a shovel in the parking lot. No, you won't build sandcastles there. With shovels, vacationers dig bathtub-sized loungers right next to the water and, lying down, enjoy the streams of hot, mineral-rich water from the depths of the earth. After these procedures, the skin becomes elastic and soft, and the body seems to be filled with strength. Just remember - the deep currents need to be constantly mixed with sea water, because they are so hot that you can scald yourself.
Fish pedicure
Did you know that tiny fish can do the best pedicure? This way of taking care of your feet is not surprising in Southeast Asia. In Cambodia, on the main pedestrian street of Siem Reap, many Cambodians offer this procedure to visitors. All you have to do is sit down, dip your feet in the water with tiny fish, and wait until the fish do their job – eat away the dead tissue. Get ready for a fun tickle.
Sand therapy
The Sahara Desert in Morocco is also popular for health reasons, with locals offering sand bath therapy. In the morning, before the sun is dangerously hot, they dig a man-sized hole several dozen centimeters deep. After half an hour, when the hole has absorbed the heat, they bury their bodies up to their necks in sand. The procedure takes about 30 minutes, and Moroccans claim that it is effective in treating joint diseases. This type of health treatment is not new in the Sahara region, as Berbers have been performing the procedure for several hundred years.
Stone baths
Bhutanese people make healing baths from… stones. They heat the water in a wooden bath by placing hot stones taken from a fire or stove. As they cool in the water, the stones release minerals, and bath attendants always add hibiscus leaves to the water and offer to drink herbal tea. When traveling, you can experience this procedure both in a luxury spa hotel and with local residents.
Tourism exhibition ADVENTURE 2020 will be held on January 24-26 at the Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress CenterLitexpo". Together with Litexpo, it is organized by the Tourism Policy Department of the Ministry of Economy and Innovation of Lithuania, VŠĮ "Travel in Lithuania", Lithuanian Tourism Association, Lithuanian Chamber of Tourism. On January 24, exhibitors and guests are invited to the ADVENTUR forum "Health Tourism: Luxury or Necessity".
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