The Finnish sauna

The Finnish sauna is a substantial part of Finnish culture. There are five million inhabitants and over two million saunas in Finland - an average of one per household. For Finnish people the sauna is a place to relax in with friends and family, and a place for physical and mental relaxation as well.

 Taking a sauna begins by washing oneself up and then going to sit in the hot room, typically warmed to 80-110 degrees Celsius.
When the heat begins to feel uncomfortable it is customary to jump into a lake, sea, or a river in this case . In the winter is tipycal rolling in the snow or even swimming in a hole cut in the ice