On getting a fish pedicure
So I’ll warn you now… if you don’t want to see pictures of our feet, go ahead and click away. But I promise, our feet are clean and everything… it’s just that they were also dinner for a few hundred small fish who specialise in giving pedicures. True story.
Fish pedicures aren’t really all that hard to come by now – there are several places in London where you can get one if you fancy, but they are all over the place in Bangkok and we decided to give it a whirl at a night market. Essentially, you wash your feet then stick them in a tank filled with lots of tiny fish you nibble at the dead skin. It doesn’t hurt, but it tickles more than I could have imagined, and it took about ten of our fifteen minutes for me to calm down and not constantly shake the fish from my toes. So that sign that says one of the benefits is ‘the rest’ and how it will ‘cause relaxation’? That bit is far, far from what we experienced!
We did however giggle a great deal and get many laughs from passersby who had no intention of sticking their feet in the tank. Definitely a conversation starter.
By the way, if you ever get a fish pedicure, go for a tank that has smaller fish. We passed various places offering fish of different sizes and our tank had mostly small but a couple large fish. The large fish bite harder and they are too big to get to the little spots anyway, so I was very glad we didn’t opt for the all-big-fish tank. Seriously, there is a certain I can’t believe I am writing this message going through my mind as I type about fish instead of scrapbooking!
Admittedly, my feet were very soft after a fish pedicure and if I had the nerve to keep my feet in that tank for thirty minutes instead of fifteen, I think my toes could have won awards for their amazing condition. But I’m just not sure I could manage… we’ll see what the verdict is on that after several more weeks of miles of walking every day!
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