Okay ... so I just had to share this one. DaLeiLei and I went out dancing today and on our way back to our room, we stopped for dinner. After dinner we decided to have a foot massage, as one does when one is in Thailand.
We came across this place called "Fish Spa". Now, there are a lot of weirdly named places in Chiang Mai offering massage so we just figured it was an odd name ... then we looked in and found out that they offered to have these fish eat your feet for 30 minutes before giving you foot massage.
We had just seen an episode of "Ugly Betty" in which the main villainess does the same thing to help rid her feet of callouses so she can more readily seduce a man so we thought ... I've gotta try this!
It was weird. You sit for 30 minutes with your feet submerged in a tank with 1000 of these little fish called "Doctor Fish" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_fish ] as they swarm over to your legs, feet and toes and proceed to "nibble" off bits of your old, dead flesh. It was creepy, it tickled, and by the end of the 30 minutes it seemed like the most natural way to remove skin that could be imagined. We've already decided to try it again ... and the two women, Ann and Ead were great therapists for our feet.
Here's a video of the fish in action! [ http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1925518/garra_rufa_fish_in_action_giving_a_natural_pedicure/ ]
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