We picked our way past men, women and children bathing and frolicking in the irrigation canals, the heart of the Balinese irrigation system known as subak, so unique that UNESCO has designated it a World Heritage site.
The trend towards the modern pattern of frequent bathing and laundering in the USA and UK dates from 1890 to 1915.
In 1982, Japan launched a national program to encourage forest bathing, and in 2004, a formal study of the link between forests and human health began in Iiyama, Japan a place particularly known for its lush, green forests.
It is another world: roads crowded with cars, lashings of food, cricket and tennis and bathing in the sun.
This was done for all bathing areas and in both the swimmers' and the nonswimmers' zones.
The painting depicts working-class men lounging on the riverbank and bathing in the Seine, on an ethereally – and yet emptily – bright day.
"Rohith and four other scholars were sleeping and bathing in the open, like outcasts," said Kolagani Ashok Kumar, Vemula's roommate.
Faced with an almost overwhelming demand for safe water and sanitation, UNICEF and its partners are supplying drinking water and rapidly constructing latrines and bathing facilities in the camps.
Nguyen and Hung Vuong Pham, 14 and 15 respectively, await their daily routine of eating and bathing in the Kim Dong district of Hai Phong, Vietnam.
Fay's days are spent playing house underneath shady trees, eating fresh almonds and bathing in the river.
