Having a sauna
It’s now a Week ago when we came back from Malawi. The temperature difference is about 30°C. Our bodies have adapted the centralafrican climate within the 10 weeks we stayed in Malawi. Sometimes it was hard to sleep because of the heat and Nathalie dreamed of flying over the Kongo with a small propeller plane because of the ventilator that stood next to our bed. Today I opened my personal sauna season. The first round of saunarium at 60°C felt like a hot day at the lake Malawi. Let me give a short explanation to my Malawian friends about what a sauna is: It’s a traditional finnish wooden cabine that is heated up dry to 90°C and one goes into it for about 15 minutes. Afterwards one cools down the body jumping into icecold water and short walk in the fresh winter air (below 0°C). That’s how the body is cooled down to activate the blood circulation to protect the body against cold and illness and activate the immune system. (You can find more information about sauna on the Wikipedia website.)
