The Turkish bath is the Middle Eastern variant of a steam bath, which can be categorized as a wet relative of the sauna. They have played an important role in cultures of the Middle-East, serving as places of social gathering, ritual cleansing, and as architectural structures, institutions, and (later) elements with special customs attached to them. Europeans learned about the Hammam via contacts with the Ottomans, hence the "Turkish" part of the name.

A person taking a Turkish bath first relaxes in a room (known as the warm room) that is heated by a continuous flow of hot, dry air allowing the bather to perspire freely. Bathers may then move to an even hotter room (known as the hot room) before splashing themselves with cold water. After performing a full body wash and receiving a massage, bathers finally retire to the cooling-room for a period of relaxation.

In Turkey, the advent of modern plumbing systems, showers, and bathtubs in homes caused the importance of hammams to fade in recent times.

This was my third trip to Turkey .This time while I was in the Cappadocia regent , in a small town of Urgub I ran into a lovely family owned Coed Bath ( an odd experience in a Muslim country). I have taken many similar baths ( korean and Russian ) but never a Turkish experience. I decided I could not leave Turkey without this experience. At around10pm , right after dinner I mentioned the two Canadian girls I met during my stay in Cap.that i'll be heading to a bath right after dinner and well , they decided to join. And I decided to photograph it . It was not an easy task because of the amount of wetness in the rooms , steam was all over so each shot was a challenge . Also I did not wanted to keep the camera for a long period of time in the WATER ! So I hope you enjoy this as much as I did!