I have to confess, I've not done a good job in my travels of taking pictures of the toilet. I almost always snap a couple shots of the room I'm sleeping in (for memory-jogging purposes later, or if it's got a great view or something), and I've been known to collect little squares of toilet paper (if it's interesting to me, that is - like the TP from the toilet at the top of the Eiffel Tower), but I don't take pictures of the loo itself.

And really, this picture taken in a bathroom on Mt. Kilimanjaro isn't of the bathroom itself, but rather of the view outside the bathroom, but still...

The bottom line is that I know some of you out there who have taken pictures of the bathrooms you've used around the world. So, dig them up and post them here. A World Tour of Toilets, if you will.

The loo aboard the train from Hanoi to Lao Cai.

Man, we've sunk to a new picture low with this idea. There's only one more step down, Jessie. Don't take it.

Nothing at all unsual about the requests being made in this sign...



...I've just always loved it for the raw eartnestness of the script and, especially, illustrations.

La Penita, Mexico

Chuck has a great one taken from Kili, as well... *shudder*

Damnit. I was going to take a picture of a toilet in a dodgy bar in Ethiopia but opted against it.

We described it as "Worst than the worst toilet in Scotland."

How about these that I saw in Amsterdam? Space-efficient, convenient...

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Originally posted by Joey:
Damnit. I was going to take a picture of a toilet in a dodgy bar in Ethiopia but opted against it.

That'll teach you.

I thought about taking a picture similar to Static's train photo while on a train in India. It would have looked similar except the hole is wider and it offers a full view of the tracks whizzing by (pardon the pun) below.

I never thought it might come in handy, but I'll know better next time.

I wish I would have taken photos of the bathroom at the Jurassic in Taipei. It's themed with part dinosaur, part native american stuff. (used to be called The Indian). The urinals are like big totem poles that you pee into, and the sinks are an open t-rex mouth and the water flows down the lower jaw and into a basin.

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Originally posted by Pete Teoh:
How about these that I saw in Amsterdam? Space-efficient, convenient...

Where do the girls go?

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Originally posted by Keppie:
Where do the girls go?

At the tree beside the men's.

Sign hanging in the men's outhouse at a pub in Middleton, Queensland (maybe NT??), Australia. Incidentally, the pub, and the 6 people living in it, make up the entire town.

(And, before you smart mouths pipe up, the door was being held open by our male tour guide so we could look at a spider when I noticed the sign. I don't often hang out in the men's room! )

Here's a toilet I came across in Italy. It's a classic, so I had to snap a picture!

Static, was that the first class train from Hanoi? Because the loo on the 2nd class train from Hanoi to Hue looked a lot more like the open pit with track below as rawjer described in India. Instead of a picture to remember this by, I just have a pebble stuck in my a**.