Sentences with phrase «squat toilets»

Also, until after WWII, the Japanese used squat toilets, which are a lot smellier.

Although more and more Western - style toilets with seats and flushing mechanisms are turning up in tourist areas around Asia, you'll still find squat toilets in open - air markets, local restaurants, temples, and a few modern shopping malls.

Bathrooms are cold - water, bak mandi style with squat toilet, which shouldn't be a big... Read our full review of Pondok Wisata Rajawali.

And that this is true of all McDonalds around the world, even if you're in a region where squat toilets are the norm.

Dr Jane Wilson - Howarth, author of «How to Shit Around the World» (Travelers Tales), has made offerings in more Indian squat toilets than she cares to count

Budget hotels outside the capital often have communal rooms, grubby squat toilets and no running water.

That said, rooms come in a massive variety with the ones having shared hot water, squat toilet bathrooms being most... Read our full review of Bagus Bay Homestay.

Open - air bamboo cubicles conceal cold - water showers and bucket flush squat toilets while you contemplate the clouds or the stars.

If the budget hotel is noisy, doesn't live up to the photos you saw online, or only has a horrific squat toilet, you're probably stuck there if you have already paid for the duration of your stay.

The simple squat toilet was like a Minimalist sculpture.

But nobody (not even Asians who are used to them) buys squat toilets.

Even Kira didn't think that Americans would accept squat toilets, no matter how much healthier they were.

While there, I used squat toilets.

Keeping to the edge of civilisation theme, accommodation is generally of the shack variety — many with squat toilets and cold water bucket showers — and somewhat overpriced.

However, her conference speaking has allowed her to ride a camel, watch kangaroos on a golf course, eat a dish called «drunken chicken», and use a squat toilet successfully.

Hoffmann and his team created prototypes of three different toilets: a Western - style one, a water - free urinal and a squat toilet, commonly used in South and Southeast Asia.

So it's literally like using on a squatting toilet - as your rear is low and there is then no thigh support.

For the lowest price you'll get to sleep on a bed in the courtyard and share basic washing facilities and squat toilets.

Basic budget accommodation will probably have a squat toilet and a bucket instead of a shower.

Inside you find a couple of beds and out the back is a hot water shower and squat toilet.

By and large homestays are an excellent budget option and you'll be putting cash directly into the pockets of the local community, but you should expect the basics only: usually a fan - cooled room, share cold - water mandi and squat toilet — often with little or no English spoken.

If you don't know how to use a squat toilet in Thailand they're not going to roll out the red carpet for you and bring you a flusher.

I knew coming here that squat toilets were the norm, but I guess I didn't think I would actually ever use one.

I have had many cockroaches lurking in my budget hotel bathroom, been squished on a bus between a chicken and a Nepali lady for 8 hours and have failed at using a squatter toilet more times than I can count.

The bungalows were so «rustic» that there were little holes in the huts (because they were made from wood), the door didn't shut properly and the bathroom was a squat toilet and shower.....

Pei - Hsuan Wang Oriental Obsession - 1: How to Use Chopsticks Properly & Oriental Obsession -2-1-1: How to Use a Squatting Toilet, 2011, diner mug and decals, 4.5 x 4 x 3.5 ″

A squat toilet by Iranian artist Behdad Lahooti is an obvious homage to Duchamp's urinal, except Lahooti has charged his with political meaning by covering it with conjugations of the verb «to be free» in Farsi.

Anyone who has used a German shelf - style toilet or a squat toilet will know what I mean.

Alexander Kira figured out how to design a squat toilet for westerners in the sixties, and he kept it low and kept the user's feet on the ground.

It is wonderful that the Saint Martins students are trying to update a squat toilet so that westerners will use it, but we are not quite there yet.

It is a squat toilet, which has been long been known to be a lot more healthy than the sitting toilets that we use in the west.

Then he got used to it, just as he got used to the squat toilets and mosquito nets: «Relatively quickly, something that was fairly exotic and different from an American perspective — to have six bike repair shops on a small campus — just became, «Oh, of course.

We won't go into the particulars here, but see this resource for the details: How to use a squat toilet from Flying Coach

In some areas, you'll find a style of toilet that's foreign to most of Americans — a squat toilet.

Squat toilets are common in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, South America and even parts of Europe.

While camping, skiing, scuba diving and anything involving heights or squat toilets are on the dodgy list, there are many things I'm prepared to give a whirl.