European Sauna Marathon Festival in Estonia

Otepaa - Ahead of the spring, a lot of unique festivals in Europe. Recently held European Sauna Marathon Festival in Estonia where participants wear underwear and a marathon to the sauna.

City of Otepaa in Estonia recently held a marathon festival eccentric. Reporting from the site Visit Estonia, about thousands of participants join the marathon around a sauna in a state of semi-naked in the cold. Edan!

Every winter in Europe, regularly held European Sauna Marathon Festival. For this year, the city also gets Otepaa in Estonia as a celebration of the festival organizers who arguably eccentric and a bit different.

Carrying the concept marathon combined with sauna, each participant is required to undress and perform a marathon around a sauna. The challenge, they must do so in the cold snow. Brr ..

Marathon semi nude while looking for a sauna (European Sauna Marathon in Otepaa / Facebook)

But the participants were not completely naked, but must wear a swimsuit or underwear only. While it is certainly cool, but there are tourists who are interested to follow. According to the Daily Mail media there were approximately 1,000 people who attended the festival over one day.

Participants were required to compete to get into the sauna as much as possible within the time duration of 6 hours. The participants were divided into groups, where the winner is determined from the number of group members most soaking in the

sauna.

In the event that has been held for the 7th time, the participants were also given a map to plan a sauna scattered throughout the city. Participants are also required to soak d one place sauna at least three minutes before it may move to the next location sauna.

There are at least 217 groups, including 12 groups consisting of a group of tourists. According to Estonian media World, the participants of the tourists came from Greece, Russia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania and all the staff of the British Embassy in Talinn, led by its ambassador, Chris Holtby.

Should not be afraid of the cold (European Sauna Marathon in Otepaa / Facebook)

As for the prize, which won the group 1 winner will be awarded a hot sauna facilities. Second and third prizes in the form of spa packages and hotel accommodations. Remarkably, the first winner only takes about 2 hours 55 minutes to soak in all the saunas. Extraordinary!

For the participants who did not win were also given prizes, which include beer baths a crowd. Unable to steam and hot water, but they can of beer. Better than nothing.

Indeed Otepaa in Estonia is one of the popular ski resort with a population of about 2,000 people. Each year managed to attract thousands traveler Otepaa snow sports lovers. One of them through the European Sauna Marathon Festival.