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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2009 7:39:49 GMT
This appears to be becoming increasingly popular in Bangkok -- I saw several places proposing it. Before now, I had only heard of it being done in Hungary. I had a German colleague who went there with a medical prescription since he had a psorisis type skin disease, and it apparently did him a world of good. |
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Post by hwinpp on Sept 17, 2009 7:45:25 GMT
I thought we had this already...
In Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan the fish can be found in the wild, in streams and lakes, it's free ;D
In Cambodia you pay about 8USD for just half an hour!
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Post by happytraveller on Sept 17, 2009 10:14:36 GMT
Hmmm... I might have to try that ! I might drown though.  |
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Post by spindrift on Sept 21, 2009 19:50:35 GMT
Hmmmmm....the fish do that anyway when swimming inside the reef on the Mombasa coast. I didn't realise they were after my dead skin...I just thought they were hungry  Actually it's not a nice feeling. |
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Post by komsomol on Sept 22, 2009 5:03:07 GMT
Freaky. Do they do other body parts too? Hmmm?
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Post by hwinpp on Sept 23, 2009 9:53:36 GMT
In places where the fish are attractions it's usually just the feet that you submerge.
If you're swimming in a river they nibble at any uncovered dead piece of skin.
I don't mind the sensation.
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Post by cristina on Sept 24, 2009 0:16:30 GMT
There are places in the US that offer this too. I know of one place near my Mom's house that does this. I'm not sure I could do it.  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2009 2:45:45 GMT
I don't know if I would like but then my cat Sadie licks my feet when I get out of the bath and it creeps people out (cats have that sandpapery tongue).I rather like it.I would have to know what's nibbling,the unknown part, in water, would bother me.
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Post by spindrift on Sept 28, 2009 11:38:39 GMT
I don't like the sensation. When snorkelling on a reef the fish usually mind their own business. It's only when you visit their special 'feeding grounds' where they've become accustomed to being fed to amuse tourists that they nibble (and they nibble all over). Not knowing this I took my small children into the water with me (with masks on). They didn't like being nibbled either.
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Post by komsomol on Sept 28, 2009 14:51:11 GMT
I wonder if the fish ever refuse a foot.
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Post by gertie on Aug 29, 2010 23:02:39 GMT
We just got one of these fish things in my small Texas town. They don't bill it as massage, they bill it as a fish pedicure. Supposedly it is more accurate as they will always eat all the dead skin around the cuticle and only the dead skin.
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Post by hwinpp on Sept 2, 2010 11:09:21 GMT
That's how it works, Gertie. I've now found out that the fish used here in Cambodia are not the originals. They're just normal young fish from the Mekong that are starved a bit... |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2010 13:56:14 GMT
That would imply that they have to change the fish often, once they have a stomach full of putrid diseased skin. Promptly delivered to the restaurant next door?
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Post by hwinpp on Sept 6, 2010 10:13:10 GMT
Ugh... sounds bad doesn't it?  But I think in the wild they'll probably also be feeding off drowned carion. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2010 10:57:44 GMT
Yes, just as we have seen what crabs eat and yet we still eat crabs (and pigs for that matter).
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