China - Happy feet, happy everything
Where hot showers are still a luxury in China, a hot foot bath in the evening brings relief after a hard day of work. In the villages, we've taken foot baths and felt the wonders. Somehow your body feels clean and relaxed, and you forget that you are actually still quite sweaty and dirty from the day's hike.
“Soaking my feet makes my whole body feel good,” tells us Mr Zhen who introduced us to a local hot spring just outside of Yuanjiang – an Eldorado of Chinese notions of wellness: soak your feet while eating snacks that have been cooked in the hot spring. The water temperature is just under the boiling point. Multiple seating areas have been molded out of concrete allowing the water to be mixed to the right temperature. While sitting on chairs with foods piled on the table, you can soak your feet up to mid-calf high. When the water temperature gets too cool, you can just drag over a pipe that adds water right from the source.
In a couple of months this place will have turned into a construction site. Plans are to develop a resort.
