Last two days in Karlovy Vary

Well considering we came to this town to see the hot springs we never saw any until the last day. The second to last day we decided after hiking again to go to the baths and be young again.

These are the centuries old baths and spas we decided to visit. They have all sorts of packages from plastic surgery to liposuction. They look after your cardio system and your digestive system. What did we decide to do? Take a package that included a swim in the pool, use the spa, sauna and the steam room. We could go together into the pool and spas, but the others were not unisex. We had fun as we entered the pool first. It was freezing 30 c apparently. So we hit the warm spa. The pressure of the water jets was so high that it hurt. There were different levels to massage different parts of the body..excruciating at times. Good fun. Our 90 minutes were up very quickly. This is one of the back massages we were able to endure. Very efficient. We both felt like we had had a workout with a Swedish masseuse if you know what I mean. I came out looking great..look at the photo at least 20 years younger. The next day my knees and ankles felt wonderful.

 

 

 

 

We took a bus and stopped at the bus top that said Panorama. It was indeed a panorama. We wound our way down through the massive spa hotels and very wealthy and very huge properties. Parks and gardens and glimpses of churches. So nice.

 

 

 

We even spied our little deer..with my zoom on fully.

As we made our way down to street level we started to walk through the posh area where all the people shop that live in those big properties and low and behold if we didn't stumble across the origin of the hot springs.

Inside these colonnades were taps where water sprang from, to taste from the little jugs. We refrained even though they say they all taste different from each other.

Here they are. It was a cool day so there was quite a lot of steam escaping and bubbling water in the creek.





Again because it was cool we felt the warm air escaping from these vents all over the place .

 

The architecture in this town is striking..it's like this all through the town..little gems like this.

 

Sadness all around to leave here..it was comfortable. Not only were we leaving this place but were heading out of the Czech Republic. Amazing country and we really only scratched the surface. Our only regret is that we didn't manage to couch surf anywhere.

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