Public Bathing Culture in Central Java (Trailer)
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This episode moves between two bathing sites in Central Java. The first is a natural hot spring reached on foot through forest, its water near 40 degrees Celsius, where local visitors keep soaks to roughly ten to thirty minutes and return for the quiet rather than the more crowded pool nearby. The second is a site tied to a former royal kingdom, where a local elder recounts the discovery of separate bathing pools built for a king and queen, only one of which has been located. Visitors traveling in from other parts of Central Java describe coming specifically for healing, including one man whose family credits the water with restoring his ability to walk after two years, and the water itself is said to shift color from yellow to white to clear.
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