北投 ＢｅｉＴｏｕ

北投　ＢｅｉＴｏｕ, originally uploaded by Jerry Tok.

My first hot spring experience. Fuyuan was with me. It was his first experiences as well.

We went to the public one. It cost 2 sing dollars. Other private ones are from 10 sing onwards. Though public is slightly crowded, you can meet more locals. In fact, most of them are locals. As usual, most of them are ah peks and aunties. I think they are frequent user.

Anyway, I try soaking in the hot pool. 10mins into it, Fuyuan and I decided to get out. Cannot tahan ah... I was sweating profusely and my heartbeat went up. It was as though I am jogging in zone 4 ( using the heartrate monitor). We look around and realise there was a cold pool and it was freezing man. Honestly, I am not sure of the temperature of the pools. My estimation is that the hot pool is 70 degree C. The cold pool is approximately 18 degree c.

You should try hopping from the hot pool to the cold pool. And don't procreastinate, just dive!! Once inside the cold pool, you actually feel ok...for the first 3 mins I mean. You'll feel instantly that the cold water has chilled your lungs. you feel like there is mint in the air. 5 mins later, I felt giddy. Like a spinning effect. Actually the feeling is quite shiok, abit like high on drugs.... Can anyone explains this strange reaction? Jt? Do you have any useless facts to explain this???