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The Soak List

Photo credits

The photos on our category and guide pages come from Wikimedia Commons, used under the licence shown for each one. They show saunas and bathhouses around the world, not the Sydney venues we list. Photos on a venue's own page are supplied by that venue.

  • A tiled stone bench in an old bathhouse, Alhambra, Granada, Spain. Photo by Jebulon, licensed under CC0.
  • A vaulted stone bathhouse hall with plunge pools on either side, Ali Gholi Agha hammam, Isfahan, Iran. Photo by Amirpashaei, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and cropped to fit the page.
  • A log sauna with snow on the roof, Finland. Photo by Timo Newton-Syms, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Resized and cropped to fit the page.
  • A quiet treatment room with a massage table beside a curtained window, Bali, Indonesia. Photo by Paradisus Bali, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and cropped to fit the page.
  • A lit sauna cabin in the snow at dusk, Korpilahti, Finland. Photo by Matias Arje, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized and cropped to fit the page.
  • A warm-lit wooden sauna with two tiers of benches, Luang Prabang, Laos. Photo by Basile Morin, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and cropped to fit the page.
  • A bather holding a leafy whisk in backlit sauna steam, Finland. Photo by Ville Kurki, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and cropped to fit the page.
  • Tiered wooden sauna benches under violet light, Munich, Germany. Photo by Jorge Royan, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized and cropped to fit the page.
  • A stone sauna stove with firewood stacked beside it, Utsjoki, Finland. Photo by MattiPaavola, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized and cropped to fit the page.
  • Wooden smoke saunas letting out smoke among pine trees, Kuusijärvi, Vantaa, Finland. Photo by Ximonic (Simo Räsänen), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and cropped to fit the page.
  • Glowing embers under a wood-fired sauna stove, Kuusijärvi, Vantaa, Finland. Photo by Ximonic (Simo Räsänen), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and cropped to fit the page.