Karlovy Vary

" More languages are heard here than at the Tower of Babylon: Polish Jews, Russian aristocracy, Chinese mandarins, Turkish Pashas, Norwegians, looking as if they had just descended from the pages of Ibsen, Frenchwomen from the boulevards of Paris, Spanish grandees, English countesses, Montenegrins, millionaires from Chicago. Here you can get all the luxuries of modern civilization, with the exception of pepper: pepper is considered to be poison for local patients."

In Karlovy Vary there are more than 60 hot springs, some of which rise from a depth of 1 kilometer or more. The water temperature reaches 73 degrees. 12 sources are used for medicinal purposes. Healing by its chemical composition, bicarbonate sulfur - sodium chloride thermal waters are useful for people chronically suffering from diseases of the digestive tract (in remission), and musculoskeletal system.

The list of indications for treatment in Karlovy Vary is very extensive:

- gastric dyspepsia and intestinal irritation,

- gastric and duodenal ulcers,

- post-surgery condition after stomach and intestines surgery,

- diseases of the gall bladder and biliary tract,

- chronic disease of liver and pancreas.

People go for water treatment of diabetes and its complications, high cholesterol level, gout and obesity.

As contraindication for sanatorium treatment in Karlovy Vary there are various stenosis, obstruction or infection of biliary tract, liver failure and acute stages of chronic diseases.

Mineral water, unlike beer, is consumed not only inside but also in the form of baths and showers. You may be prescribed pearl and galvanic baths, whirlpool, water and mud and paraffin treatments. Injections of gases are done, too.

Besides, the resort is also therapeutic exercise, swimming and walking. The outdoor swimming pool of the "Thermal" sanatorium is at customers’ service, as well as a golf club, tennis courts, a shooting range. Those who want to distract themselves from thoughts about the treatment can go to a theater or a concert, and if health permits, to go on an excursion to Prague, Plzen or castles in Central Bohemia.

Hotels at Karlovy Vary