Many people believe that the salted mud from the Kuyalnik Estuary, some kilometers outside Odessa, has healing powers.
As a result, dozens of people spent Friday afternoon rubbing their body with the healing dirt. In fact, the mud is also being collected in plastic bottles and brought home as a souvenir or, perhaps as a medicine.
With the old boat on the pictures dirt is being dredged and transported to the local sanatorium “sanatorium Kuyalnik”. On this site the sanatorium claims to have treatments for a wide range of diseases.
The sanatorium was founded in 1834 and is one of the oldest mud sanatoriums of Ukraine according to Wikipedia.
For a look inside the sanatorium see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwBK3lV-S9w
and you can view the muddy (and now healthy) Ukrainians below…
Alex
ow, you’ve been in Odessa )
did you try mud as well? ) or don’t believe in this ‘medicine’?
jeromrozendaal
I don’t believe in it to be honest, but I did take some mud home. I left it outside of my apartment in the corridor and unfortunately the cleaner took it away. Otherwise I might have tried….
Alex
Believe or not, if that would be not Ukraine but another country, there would be already tonns of cosmetics made on base of that mud (as Dead Sea salt) + there would be perfect infrastructure and millions made generally on clients.
jeromrozendaal
Well you could be right, but the non-commercial outlook made this place unique for me. Many of the natural resources of Ukraine have unfortunately been capitalized. It is difficult to catch a fish in the Kiev area without paying for it: many lakes are surrounded by a fence and owned by somebody.
Alex
ow, you’ve been in Odessa )
did you try mud as well? ) or don’t believe in this ‘medicine’?
jeromrozendaal
I don’t believe in it to be honest, but I did take some mud home. I left it outside of my apartment in the corridor and unfortunately the cleaner took it away. Otherwise I might have tried….
Alex
Believe or not, if that would be not Ukraine but another country, there would be already tonns of cosmetics made on base of that mud (as Dead Sea salt) + there would be perfect infrastructure and millions made generally on clients.
jeromrozendaal
Well you could be right, but the non-commercial outlook made this place unique for me. Many of the natural resources of Ukraine have unfortunately been capitalized. It is difficult to catch a fish in the Kiev area without paying for it: many lakes are surrounded by a fence and owned by somebody.
Alex
well.. probably you will agree that there are lots of things to improve even for non-commercial use. there is no shower, there are no roads, there is no TOILET! no drinking water…
but of course I understand what you mean.. as with Kiev and fishing. over-commerce is also bad.
Ian Bearder
You lost your special mud!
haha
Only in Ukraine :))
Alex
well.. probably you will agree that there are lots of things to improve even for non-commercial use. there is no shower, there are no roads, there is no TOILET! no drinking water…
but of course I understand what you mean.. as with Kiev and fishing. over-commerce is also bad.
Ian Bearder
You lost your special mud!
haha
Only in Ukraine :))