Not mentioned very often (or ever) in articles about the Far East are the toilets in the ladies rooms in Japan, Vietman, Cambodia and in China. What you often find in the hand washing areas are either quite common sinks and paper towel dispensers or extraordinarily beautiful areas to clean your hands and adjust make-up. Marble is frequently used to build the counters and as you can see in the photo above this facility has a lovely sink and beautiful vase. Very nice, indeed.
While most of the toilts were clean enough, a few were unpleasant and only used by either the most needy or the heartiest of traveler. And there is a definite difference between the facilities used in the USA and those of the Far East because most ladies rooms that we encountered while in the Far East had what they called ‘squat toilets’. And to use them, ah, the name tells it all. There were a few ‘western style’ facilities and they were quite welcomed when we came across one of those.
Learning how other people of the world manage daily life issues if part of the fun of traveling, but when I found a little comfort from home it made me realize just how much I take for granted.
