The special geological construction provides hotsprings in iceland, and at least 800 of them are natural, with the temperature above 75℃. The water used by every family in Iceland is from the hot spring and they can have a hot spring shower once they turn on the faucet. The Icelanders love swimming in the open air, of course in the hotspring. Most Icelanders was taken to the hot springs by their parents to learn swimming when they were born just a few months.

In this case, the open air swimming pools are the hottest social gathering places where you can come aross statesmen, entrepreneurs and artists. There exists no occupation and identification differences when people take off suits only on swimwear. With that, it’s easy to talk business or chat because people are back to initial status and in a relaxed mood. In Iceland, the hotsprings in the open air are also the best choices for young lovers. Being there, lovers can not only be honest to each other, but can also be intimate because of the hot water.

An Iceland friend of writer, Frank says, [Hot spring spa is an essential program for travelers in winter”. He also introduced that, hotspring spa in Iceland is quite different from it in Finland-to steep into freezing water as soon as saunaing to burnt, which is irratative and enormously dangerous. Conversely, hotspring spa is a three-step gradual heating progress, which is of protective benefit to one’s skin and angiocarpy.

It is a practice that if Icelanders invite friends to home in winter, they will certainly take them to the public hot spring bathhouse for a bath. But it would be an exquisitely courteous reception to be offered a homely hotspring spa. For firsly, home-made hotspring pools are less and less; secondly, Icelanders would not take people to bathe in the homely pools and dine there unless it were the elder and the old friends. I was once honored to have been invited to the personal hot spring cabin of Gluck. The longer we were exposed to the hotspring water, the more lively we were.

It is just as my friends said, the hotspring spa is Icelanders’ secret of longevity.