I spent 12 days in Russia, where I rode on the world’s longest train line and spent a night in an $18,000 hotel suite — but the most memorable part of my trip was a visit to a bathhouse

• Earlier this year, I spent 12 days traveling through Russia for Business Insider.
• I went inside the Kremlin in Moscow, visited a diamond mine in Siberia, and spent two days riding the legendary Trans-Siberian Railway.
• But the most memorable part of my trip was a visit to a 200-year-old traditional Russian bathhouse, or “banya.”
• I paid $85 to be whacked with branches and doused in ice-cold water — and it was such a strange experience that I’ll never forget it.
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