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AbkhaziaWhat to Expect and Is It Worth Visiting
The hydrogen sulfide spring and therapeutic mud are located in the Balneological clinic of Gagra (now the sanatorium "Sana"), and are available not only to guests. For a fee, any tourist from the street can come here and take bathrooms with hot hydrogen sulfide water, or hold a mud treatment session. To obtain a valid Therapeutic Effect, it is necessary to undergo a course of 10-12 sessions under the supervision of specialists, for which it is better to stay in this Sanatorium and enroll in a course of recovery. In other cases, tourists should consider it more as a kind of pleasant relaxing procedures, rather than treatment.
Water for thermal baths comes from a deep well, and is rich in sulfide, nitrogen and magnesium-calcium compounds. The content of hydrogen sulfide in it is 44.2 mg/l. The uniqueness of this source is the low mineralization (2.5 g/l). Radon is also present in the water in moderation. When visiting independently, do not forget that there are contraindications for taking hot baths: oncology, tuberculosis, blood diseases, peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum 12, renal pathologies.
It is worth warning that the type of Sanatorium and living conditions in it at first glance can scare away. Indeed, both the building itself and the area around it look frightening, are in complete decline and require major repairs, which, apparently, have not been carried out since the Soviet period. Only the most persistent and unassuming tourists can live here with pleasure. However, as for the baths and mud procedures themselves, everything is more or less in a normal state, so it is quite possible to visit the procedures from the street.
🕐 Working hours
09:00-15:00, seven days a week.
💵 Entrance fee / ticket price
the cost of taking a hydrogen sulfide bath – 250 rubles, therapeutic mud-200 rubles.
🚶 How to get there
sources are located in the sanatorium "Sana" in Novaya Gagra on Demerdzhipa STR., 49 (Hot Springs on the map). It is somewhat away from the center and the embankment, but it will not be difficult to get there on foot. You can also get here by minibus for 25 rubles, including from Staraya Gagra district, go to the former Shopping Center "continent".
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