Amy and Graham
Loos worthy of note
The Outdoor Toilet...
An apparent selling point for the emerald gecko resort, the outdoor toilet allowed you to be at one with nature whilst you showered, cleaned your teeth and well you know. This is estate agent chat for cold shower, walls and floor teaming with all manner of creepy crawlies, and a real and constant danger of being knocked out by a falling coconut whilst dancing around avoiding the cold water. Also after a truck came by to show off a giant cobra that had been passing, any night time jaunts to the loo were pretty speedy affairs. On the plus side it was clean and had toilet paper.
Long Train Running . . .
As you have probably gathered by now, travelling around India requires quite a lot of time spent on the train. The trains run up and down the length of the country and by the time you get on board a train may well have been running for 40hrs or so. This means that the toilets can often be described as less than fresh and require a pretty tough constitution. A complete lack of the senses of smell and taste also helps and at times your not far from grabbing the moth balls out of the sink and sticking them straight up your nose as they're a darn sight more pleasant than the general aroma. Unfortunately those whizzes behind the internet haven't worked out to send smells yet so you'll just have to make do with a picture, which believe me is only half the experience.
p.s I think people stand on the rim. Quite what they do when they get up there is something I can barely comprehend.
Don't mind if I poo ...
After a few Pink Gins in the luxurious surroundings of the Elgin Hotel (a delightful remnant of Darjeelings colonial past) one felt the need to spend a penny. Now in India it is not always guaranteed that a shiny front of house will be matched when it comes to the sanitation facilities, however, on this occasion the experience was one to savour. Fresh flowers, a choice of soaps and several methods for drying your hands were served up in the finest black marble surroundings. In fact the room was so spacious it was difficlut to capture much on camera. Thank you Elgin. You are currently the leader in the India's finest toilet awards and using you was a real pleasure. Our only disappointiment is we didn't meet when our tummies were a little runnier.
Jorethang Bus station, take a bow.
Currently holding the number 1 ranking in our series of worst toilets in India. Many of you may have read that the jeep journey from Darjeeling into Sikkim was a little bit scary. Unfortunately I think these poor toilets bear the brunt of peoples relief about making it in to Sikkim alive. I think when they relax they probably relax a little bit too much. What is more frightening is that these are the ones you have to pay to use, the ones with an on hand cleaner. Having a look at the free to use ones was probably a bit beyond the strength of our constitutions. I'm guessing that all the stuff round the urinal is betel nut spit, but not ruling out that it might be poo. In the squat toilet it is all poo. Nice.
The Black House, Chiang Rai
The Loo log has been a little bit inactive for a while. This perhaps reflects the fact that our visits to the toilet have been a lot less regular since we left India, and certainly not as interesting. However, this toilet at the Black House in Chiang Rai certainly merits a mention, largely because it seems as if it might have been designed by Conan the Barbarian.
Key features include the shell mirror, the water-buffalo horn toilet roll holder, and last but not least, the slightly bizarre carved penis wall decorations. All in all a contender for the most atmospheric toilet in SE Asia.
Nong Khiaw, Laos
This isn't a toilet for those that are a little bit shy or have any kind of performance anxieties. It's right next to the path to Nong Khiaw's one and only visitor attraction and therefore you're pretty much guaranteed an audience. However, it might be extremely well placed given that to get to said attraction you have to be dragged across a raging torrent by a skinny drunk man. All this being said the view isn't bad
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