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Guests are being offered the chance to escape the wet weather with one of the oldest and most effective body treatments, the Hammam, which is now being offered at Ayada Maldives. AySpa at the resort, ...

high angle view of woman relaxing in foam. Ask anyone who has been to a hammam, or bathhouse in Turkey and they will tell you that they have never felt so clean as after a traditional Turkish bath.

For centuries, pleasure combined with practicality in the hammams, or bathhouses, of Istanbul, where everyone from the humblest worker to the sultan himself regularly kept clean by indulging in the ...