I knew there would be squat toilets in Asia, and I thought I had mentally prepared myself for them, but this one on the road from Chiang Rai to Chiang Khong in Thailand gave me a moment’s pause:
Use the bucket of water to splash water in the toilet as a kind of flushing
There are squat toilets in Japan, too, but also the elaborate seat toilets with at least four features–noise to cover up the fact that you’re voiding your bowels, bidet, light butt wash, and heavy-duty butt wash (haha):
Your toilet of the future
Elaborate instructions
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“Voiding your bowels”….I think uncle rog will enjoy that for a long time….
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I know two different people who’ve been to Japan in the last month, and both have come back *raving* about the “facilities”. Glad you were able to go from worst to first in your travels — the other direction would probably have been much harder to take!
True! I’m getting the order right on some things.