A health spa in Lithuania has become the first in the world to open a sauna made almost entirely out of amber. Three tonnes of Baltic amber were used to build the 15-person relaxation room.
The world probably already has enough bizarre saunas, many of them in Finland, where sauna fans can sweat it out in a phone booth, a hut made of ice or even an underwater hot room, among other memorable offerings.
But now a sauna covered in amber can be added to that list.
A recreation and health complex in Lithuania has lined the walls, floors and beds of it 15-person sauna with a massive 3 tonnes of Baltic amber.
Construction at the large Atostogu Parkas health spa near the coast of western Lithuania took nearly a year, according to the spa’s director Ricardas Jovaisa.
The first of its kind in the rather quirky landscape of saunas, the room measures 22 square metres – roughly half the size of the world-famous Amber Room in Saint Petersburg. – dpa
