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myLot reputation of 97/100. bubblyapple (1411)   ranked 347 out of 7,522 in enjoy life 4 years ago

I love going to SPAs. It is so relaxing and rejuvenating. Although I do not go as often as I like, mainly because of financial reasons, I still cherish the times when I was able to go. Because of my love for SPAs, this TIME magazine (10/6/08) article about A SPA THAT SLITHERS caught my attention. Instinctively, I read through the article and it got me fascinated. I mean, you've heard about SPAs that use chocolate, mud, seasalt, hot rocks and all those other common things. But have you heard of a SPA that uses SNAKES? Yep, you read it right snakes. Here is an excerpt from that article that I want to share with you so that you'll read on your own what I am talking about.

(written by: Tim McGirk and Talmei Elazar)
Most SPAs have names that conjure up an atmosphere of bliss and tranquility. So I am a little taken aback by the sign outside the SPA in the orange groves of northern Israel. It reads, ADA BARAK'S CARNIVOROUS PLANT FARM. Barak makes most of her income by showing off her plants, which eat everything from insects to reptiles to small mammals and schnitzel. She started grabbing one of the little snakes slithering in and out of the hungry plants' jaw and passing it around to visitors at the end of her act. And that is how she hit on the snakes' therapeutic value.
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And the article continued to describe how it felt to be "slithered" onto by the snakes. But I don't think I'll be able to enjoy it. I am terribly afraid of snakes!

Would you try this one?

 

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1. myLot reputation of 99/100. lilaclady (22746)   ranked 131 out of 7,522 in enjoy life   4 years ago

I have never been to a spa, I think I will try one one day, I have a couple of friends, they are married and they go away a bit to spas to relax a bit, but the snake thingy no I hate snakes too...


myLot reputation of 97/100. bubblyapple (1411)   ranked 347 out of 7,522 in enjoy life  4 years ago

scary, right?! LOL

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2. myLot reputation of 98/100. maximax8 (17670)   ranked 17 out of 7,522 in enjoy life   4 years ago

I love to swim in an indoor swimming pool, relax in a jacuzzi, have a hot stone massage, some reiki or some reflexology. I am keen on aromatheraphy because I like the different fragrances. Most spas conjure up images of relaxation and complete bliss where a person returns home feeling refreshed. I think that the ladies plants sound horrible because they swallow insects, animals and reptiles. I touched a snake when I was a child when an animal keeper visited my school. The snake felt soft and dry not at all slimy. I wouldn't want to touch a snake now I am grown up. I would be likely to scream with treasure if I was laying down at the spa and a snake slithered over me. Oh, my, that would be scary and I would feel terrified. I have snorkeled with small sharks and sting rays, looked a crocodiles from the safety of a boat and held a huge spider. However I am afraid of snakes. Walking on an island in Australia we saw a snake and that scared us a great deal. Some snakes in Australia are deadly and I wouldn't go near one of them.


myLot reputation of 97/100. bubblyapple (1411)   ranked 347 out of 7,522 in enjoy life  4 years ago

yeah, I know some snake are deadly...and even if the lady there tell me that the snakes in her spa are not, i wouldn't still have the guts to try it!

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3. myLot reputation of 95/100. chingbeem (409)   ranked 179 out of 7,522 in enjoy life   4 years ago

I go to a spa regularly. Body spa.Hair spa. I just had foot spa 3 hours ago. a lady comes to the house for my foot spa. I have complete apparatus for footspa. I go to The Spa for body spa,Davids Salon for hair spa. But never in my wildest dream will I evergo to a spa that slithers.LOL, I would faint when I see anything that is slimy and slithers.Oh no!LOL,thanks for sharing,now I have a new topic for my moms group.


myLot reputation of 97/100. bubblyapple (1411)   ranked 347 out of 7,522 in enjoy life  4 years ago

you're welcome. you could try asking them if they'll try it. see who's the most adventurous of all. LOL

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4. myLot reputation of 36/100. raxerdis (129)   ranked 2,753 out of 7,522 in enjoy life   4 years ago

my friends like to visiting spas but im not that kind human who likes spas i know they realx you and make your feel better but i can live without SPAs :D


myLot reputation of 97/100. bubblyapple (1411)   ranked 347 out of 7,522 in enjoy life  4 years ago

well, good for you then. you don't have to worry whether you'll give it a try or not! LOL

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