One of the more interesting things we did while we were in Singapore is this fish spa thing. I heard about it before, about how these little fishes love to eat dead human skin and how one's feet (or any other body part one cares to feed to the fishes) becomes baby soft after some "exposure" to the fishes. It was incredibly ticklish at first. A weird experience to see and feel the sometimes hundreds of fishes all over my legs. But I - and Dennis too - got used to it and we were very pleased with the result.
Incidentally, the fishes are Garra rufa or Cyprinion macrostomus, but commonly called "Doctor Fish." Garra rufa is a freshwater fish that can be found in the river basins of the Northern and Central Middle East, mainly in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. It has been used for the treatment of skin diseases in Turkey.
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