{"id":287,"date":"2010-03-07T22:29:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T21:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parksandlandscapes.org\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2016-05-20T15:27:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T14:27:36","slug":"banya-chelyabinsk-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parksandlandscapes.org\/blog\/banya-chelyabinsk-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian sauna (&#8216;banya&#8217;), Chelyabinsk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chelyabinsk<\/strong> is surrounded by several lakes. One of them &#8211; <strong>Smolino<\/strong> lake &#8211; is a favorite vacation spot of\u00a0townpeople at any time of year.<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of the lake\u00a0 there is a floating sauna which is used from early spring to late autumn. You can go out of the sauna and immediately start swimming in the lake.<\/p>\n<p>In winter time sauna is pulled closer to the beach and next to it the big ice-holes are cut. In the Russian sauna (\u2018<strong>banya<\/strong>\u2019) it is normal first to use birch twigs and then jump into the cold water. When the pictures were took, the temperature was -28C, so instead of jumping into the ice-hole we prefered to take cold bucket shower. Wonderful! ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Chelyabinsk is surrounded by several lakes. One of them &#8211; Smolino lake &#8211; is a favorite vacation spot of\u00a0townpeople at any time of year. In <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/parksandlandscapes.org\/blog\/banya-chelyabinsk-region\/\" title=\"Russian sauna (&#8216;banya&#8217;), Chelyabinsk\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[164],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leisure","category-river-lake-marine","tag-chelyabinsk-region"],"psp_head":"<title>Russian sauna (&#039;banya&#039;), Chelyabinsk \u2013 Parks and Landscapes<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chelyabinsk is surrounded by several lakes. One of them - Smolino lake - is a favorite vacation spot of\u00a0townpeople at any time of year. In the middle of the lake\u00a0 there is a floating sauna which is used from early spring to late autumn.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index,follow\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/parksandlandscapes.org\/blog\/banya-chelyabinsk-region\/\" \/>\r\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parksandlandscapes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parksandlandscapes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parksandlandscapes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parksandlandscapes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parksandlandscapes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/parksandlandscapes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parksandlandscapes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parksandlandscapes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parksandlandscapes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}