Some like it hot: saunas around the world – in pictures

Wyld, the UK’s first public floating sauna, at Liverpool’s Princes Dock.

Photograph: Alexander Barlow/Wyld

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Members of the Finnish Sauna Society sitting outdoors as part of the traditional sauna bath in Helsinki, Finland.

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Small sauna cabin in the shore of a lake in eastern Finland.

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Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian

Photograph: Bill Measom

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Photograph: Jason Charles Hill/Tourism Tasmania

Photograph: Declan Blackall

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