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Sauna Dory in Teuva, Finland

(Teuva, FINLAND)This one of very few sauna boats that makes it to the Teuva Festival. It’s a lapstrake vessel with a small sauna built on top, and there’s stabilizing pontoons to either side. If you look past the lavender pink sauna dory and the matching bikini, you’ll see in the background of the photo there’s a sauna traffic jam on the street outside the Mobile Sauna Festival. That’s why they built their sauna on a boat, they were tired of the commute.

From Andrea Vascellari’s photostream

VW sauna & trailer at Teuva

Andrea Vascellari’s photostream

Sauna Combine

The Teuva Mobile Sauna Festival is the ultimate festival Finnish mobile sauna enthusiasts. If you go you will see everything you can (or can’t) imagine turned into a sauna. This is a farm combine. It’s not clear to me if this combine still works for harvest time, but the weather looks about right to put this to good use.

Andrea Vascellari’s photostream

The kid in the photo is scratching his head because he’s boggled at the selection of saunas to choose from at this event, not because this one is in a piece of farm machinery.

phone booth sauna

(Teuva, FINLAND) I think this is mobile because you could throw it in the back of a truck. I don’t know about those all glass walls, but I would be willing to try it out with a few friends. This is but one example from the legendary Mobile Sauna Festival in Teuva, FINLAND. Another similar sauna at Teuva joined 4 phone booths into one sauna.

bike sauna

from JohntheFinn's flikr photostream.

A Classic Banyatruck

Barnaul, Altai Region, Russia

This is a very famous mobile sauna, after Reuters ran the story and it got picked up all over the internet. Igor Chupin converted an old military GAZ-66 military vehicle and is charging people 1000 roubles (about $42.37) for ever hour.

Found a new truck for the world mobile sauna roster today out of Siberia. These crazy Russians built one in a military truck. It has an 88 gallon water tank on the roof!

BARNAUL, Russia (Reuters) – Cannot afford to install a sauna in your home? A Russian inventor might have the answer — the mobile sauna.

Converted from a military truck, Igor Chupin offers clients a session in the back of his GAZ-66 truck for 1000 roubles ($42.37) per hour.

“What Russian guy doesn’t love his banya! One day I had the idea to put a bathhouse on wheels and to drive wherever I want!” said Chupin, a self-taught inventor from the Altai region of southern Siberia.

Russians adore saunas, or banyas, spending hours in the steam rooms with friends, swapping stories over tea or vodka. Many hit themselves or others with dried birch leaves to improve the circulation.

Chupin said it took him months to build the traveling banya offers the real Russian experience. It has a 400-litre (88-gallon) water tank on top to provide the steam. It is heated with a wood-fired stove.

(Reporting by Natalya Sokhareva; Writing by Conor Sweeney; Editing by Elizabeth Piper)