Ok, this week's set of photos from my time in India are themed, and not for the faint hearted (seriously, just skip this if you are easy offended). Here are the toilets of India:
Actually, this one was in Abu Dhabi Airport, but it was my first sight of a non-western toilet in real life. This one was quite fancy, with an auto-flush facility.
I was very pleased when we went to a particular cafe to find they had toilet paper. It isn't used everywhere. It's funny how the "small" things in life become such big deals when they aren't available to you!
I found this fella hanging around in the toilet (bathroom for you Americans), in the house we were staying at first. Our hosts had some very foot related ways of getting rid of them.
A classic Indian toilet. Thinking about it, I guess the squatting position does make quite a bit of sense. Magazine publishers might not like it if we moved to that in the west though.
This great urinal was found in Arignar Anna Zoological Park. Not sure what the difference between using this and just peeing on the wall would have been, given the lack of tube on the bottom.
Outside of the toilet block shown above, was this pool, which I avoided falling in to.
Another classic. Again, the comfort level of us westerners is just ridiculous sometimes.
This was the toilet in the house we stayed in the longest. Given some of the others I'd seen, I knew we were very privileged to have paper, a western unit, and running water for a flush!
This is from one of the train trips: you could actually see down to the tracks through the hole!
Once we got up north, we staying in hotels, which provided a few comforts.
On one road trip, we were presented with these outside cubicles.
Some toilets combined the western style, with wings the Indian's could use to squat on, if they wanted to. Genius.
Don't you just want to go use that toilet someone that cool uses?
In a coffee shop in Delhi: the light was off, so I had to use the flash on the camera to see the toilet. I'm glad I did before I actually tried to use the thing!
I'd not seen this before: in a restaurant, the urinals had ice in them. I'm guessing it was something to do with stopping the smell.
One of the last toilets I used in India: very modern looking.
On the way home, we had these plain toilets to "enjoy".
I can't really complain about the oddness of some Indian toilets - not when the UK airport we came back to has one of these. Whoever heard of a "Family Toilet" before?!
That should be the last of these. In future weeks, I'll be highlighting some of the really hard hitting parts of India, so please stay subscribed for what's next!
