It’s the one thing we all have in common around this globe…when you gotta go, you gotta go. You’ll find toilets in some of the strangest places around the globe. I personally find amusement and intrigue in the mundane – it’s one of my favorite things about travel. While looking through my photo albums recently, I realized that I had many, many photos of toilets. Yes toilets around the globe.
Apparently toilets catch my photographic eye. However it’s not necessarily that they make great photography, I capture them because I’m intrigued by the differences throughout the world – squatty potties, drop toilet, high tech toilets, western toilets. And I’m even more intrigued on how my definition of a ‘good’ toilet evolves and changes as I travel.
Here are a few of my favorite places to ‘go’.
Want more toilets? Then check out Lisa Lubin’s post about Foreign Bathroom Plumbing Oddities
By Barbara Weibel October 19, 2012 - 10:55 am
The sign in the airport toilet has them all beat!
By Lisa | LLworldtour October 19, 2012 - 11:16 am
Something we all do! Well, not me of course. 😉 Thanks for the linkage!
By Kieu ~ GQ trippin October 19, 2012 - 11:37 am
HAHAHA.. is the “shit box” for real? That’s ummm.. a load of crap. Hilarious. I too take photos of toilets too. It’s been quite the trip this past year traveling the world. I love the mechanical heated ones from Japan. 🙂
By Emilia October 19, 2012 - 12:34 pm
Fun post…We took lots of pics of the toilets we run into in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, from where we just arrived. Sometimes the good old bush is the best place 🙂
By Cat of Sunshine and Siestas October 19, 2012 - 12:57 pm
toilets in spain!?!?!? my husband uses the street, just like that little boy!
By Vacation Wanderer October 19, 2012 - 1:26 pm
Some of the outhouses and toilet sharing I endured in Iraq was…disgusting… wish I could post a pic I took of one that was the most disgusting of all… LOL I don’t know how many toilet seats they broke standing on them or the MOUNDS of nesting toilet paper on the seat to stand on that they pushed in and tried to flush on top of ‘their business’. We were expected to be culturally sensitive and I understand that until I have to go and have to wade through toilet water and left behind water bottles. Do you know how many stinky hands I had to hold for pictures too?! LOL I can laugh now and luckily I never got sick. 🙂
By Ashley October 19, 2012 - 6:12 pm
We saw a toilet sign in Japan like that but with a paper sign and arrow to one button that said “Stop whatever is going on.” I guess they’d had some tourists get pretty splashed!
By Caroline @ Traveling 9 to 5 October 20, 2012 - 12:27 pm
Love This! When we travel we never know what we are going to walk into when bathrooms are involved. They are a full contact sport sometimes!
By Mark H October 20, 2012 - 4:58 pm
Wonderful. The Mongolian one is the winner for me – it hardly seems a requirement in such sparse lands.
By crazy sexy fun traveler October 28, 2012 - 7:25 am
Superfunny post 😀
By Raymond waruhari October 29, 2012 - 6:56 am
ha ha! u crack me up! what about that shit box? he he! its hilarious!
By Raymond Waruhari October 31, 2012 - 1:19 am
Building Toilets in Nepal is a mixture of innovation and sophistication.
By Zarek November 2, 2012 - 9:58 am
I just wonder how all these people get by without something to clean up with?! Great post!
By Greg November 13, 2012 - 10:01 am
You need an advanced university degree to operate that toilet from Japan!!
By Jo (The Blond) November 21, 2012 - 1:21 pm
ha ha so funny! and these are the toilets I found in Germany. Apparently they have them in Sweden, too 🙂
https://youtube.com/watch?v=o5ul7prwoiM
By Majida March 31, 2013 - 2:48 pm
East meets west? Hallo?! The older generation in Germany and in Switzerland also taught us, not to sit on the toilet seat for concern of hygiene! In the meantime, I thought we have well equipped, hygienic and disinfected toilets around the 2 countries, however just recently heard grandmother (Swiss) telling her grandchild: never sit on a loos, always get on it and squat, except at home! Aha!
As to hygienic: My experience: Dubai (Malls, metro stations, hotels) > Singapore >> Switzerland and Germany>> US
By Sherry April 4, 2013 - 2:37 am
Wow – I had no idea that was taught in Europe!
By Barry October 23, 2017 - 3:01 pm
Your great article gave me a desire to travel those places and see it by myself. Thanks.
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