Yes. We have porcelain holes in the ground that are called toilets. And yes, we don't use toilet paper. I know you don't want to really hear it, but yes. We wash our butts with water and a good old left hand.
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Ha! Does that look scary. You squat and do your business. Actually, usually a house has two toilets. One is this one and the other is called a "western toilet". It's your standard chair looking toilet.
Actually, my biggest fear isn't using the toilet. To be honest it's quite comfortable. It's that there might be something hiding, lurking in that dark hole in the toilet. I don't want to go the bathroom and have something attack my you-know-where. Good thing that's never happened.
Another difference with the bathrooms here are that there is no bathtub. You take a shower on the floor and the water goes down a drain in the floor.
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As you can see here, this is the full view of the bathroom. You catch the water in that bucket and use the small mug to pour the water over you. The water goes onto the floor and into the drain that you see on the left of the bucket. The floor of the bathroom is usually always wet, and so there's always the problem of pulling off any socks your wearing. Not that anyone usually wears sock in this heat.
So it takes some skill to brave a usual Indian bathroom, but really it's not unbearable. And you know doctors say that the squatting position is actually a healthier and more comfortable position.
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Ha! Does that look scary. You squat and do your business. Actually, usually a house has two toilets. One is this one and the other is called a "western toilet". It's your standard chair looking toilet.
Actually, my biggest fear isn't using the toilet. To be honest it's quite comfortable. It's that there might be something hiding, lurking in that dark hole in the toilet. I don't want to go the bathroom and have something attack my you-know-where. Good thing that's never happened.
Another difference with the bathrooms here are that there is no bathtub. You take a shower on the floor and the water goes down a drain in the floor.
.JPG)
As you can see here, this is the full view of the bathroom. You catch the water in that bucket and use the small mug to pour the water over you. The water goes onto the floor and into the drain that you see on the left of the bucket. The floor of the bathroom is usually always wet, and so there's always the problem of pulling off any socks your wearing. Not that anyone usually wears sock in this heat.
So it takes some skill to brave a usual Indian bathroom, but really it's not unbearable. And you know doctors say that the squatting position is actually a healthier and more comfortable position.
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