My first reaction? Oh hail no! After a reasonable amount of time (a minute), why not? I'm sure it saves water and tress, and waste in general... so do you squat? If you don't... what about 'splashing' on your shoes?! I'm trying to wrap my head around it, really, I am... ;-)

Yeah. I'll stay living here.

i had first hand experience of those 'toilets' in hong kong - i ended up holding on a bit longer until i got back to the hotel!!!

Ugh, I can't imagine using those. lol, I'd pee my pants.

Uhhh...remind me never to go to the bathroom there...

oh my!!! that is a culture shock if i do say so myself!!! i remember Greece having holes in the ground for toilets too. thank goodness they have upgraded though! happy ww!!!

WOW....

I'd have a hard time adjusting to that one...Hmm.

Oh my gosh!!!!!

I'm so glad I'm not traveling there anytime soon!!! :)

I've heard that squatting is supposed to be better for you than sitting....

So you just carried paper with you? Did you squat and go? Weird.

I might just pull an "astronaut" and wear adult diapers. Yuck! Happy WW and take care.
-Kiki

Um, NO! I don't think I could ever do that! I'm good at hovering but I don't think I'm that good, LOL!

the no tap water gets me. ick....

come by thursday to find out what my new toy is. :)

who says girls cant pee standing up??? awkward, but sure. have a safe trip back!

This brings back bad memories of my bathroom experiences in South Korea.
The restrooms there (outside the main tourist areas) look exactly like this. I worked at a private English school and there was a bathroom in the building, but my director advised me not to go into it, but showed me that there was "an American toilet" a block away. I took his advice, as he didn't have a lot of issues with cleanliness so I imagined if he had a problem with it-I would REALLY have one. I learned not to drink much in the first half of my day and many days would make it my full six-hour shift without needing to run to the restroom---which was in the back of a restaurant and everyone always stopped and talked about me as I passed through to the facilities.
Not so fun.

DISGUSTING the last one is gross

What the???? How does that even work logistically?
Do you pull your pants down all the way? Standing in the middle of a room with other women and squat???

i'm speechless, not knowing what to say.

*** toilet?? :D

Don't they have mandatory restroom checks over there? Gross!

ummm...wow...nope...got nothing...that's just umm different...or gross..whatever your prespective is!! HA!

Guess since I stand most of the time I would be fine using those toilets. LOL

Oh, goodness!

Wow. I can't imagine that.

I've heard nasty rumors about that too...
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Definitely things I DON'T miss about being overseas....
~K

interesting I have been told they look like this but wow

Oh my! I think I would have to be really desperate to use those.

i bet your legs never looked better after squatting so much!

i bet your legs never looked better after squatting so much!

Squatting is a great way to exercise those legs.. The red tiles on one pic looks like my parents' wash area.

The last picture is very common of the facilities found in the former USSR when I lived there. I am pleased to know i was not the only one to photograph bathrooms in other countries. Mine are non-digital and need to be found. Happy WW!

adding that to the list of places I'd be terrified to go (pun intended rofl)

Really makes you appreciate what you have here at home... :)

I'm just trying to figure out how you get your clothes out of the way so you don't pee all over them.

My sister just came home from two weeks in Japan and I had to laugh at the pictures of signs on the walls showing people how to properly SIT on a toilet instead of squatting. CRAZY!!!

my grandparent's house an hour away from jakarta was like that. no plumbing...the bathroom was one of those you had to squat to go pee. i usually waited until we got back to the city. i think my first house from when i was wee little was like that too (except it was tiled :) )...i recall vaguely using it.

must be hard not have a changing table around (!)

How do u go on those? squat?

I did a double-take on the first few photos. I've never seen toilets like that. And no changing tables? The little things we take for granted, huh? This was really interesting!

Oh Lordy - I don't know if I could do that...but honestly my biggest issue - the lack of walls...:) I mean it looks better than a port-a-potty...but yeah...I need walls!!

Yikes! No thank you!

Oh yucky!!!! But if you have to go you have to go...ugh!

OMG I have never seen a bathroom like that. And weird question but if there is no toilet paper..what do you use? Your own?

Wow, I am still trying to imagine how to squat and hit the mark! Sure makes me appreciate what we have in reasturants here!

OH YUCK!

The little things we take for granted here in the USA.

Oh.
I've heard about this but never actually seen them. Um...I might have to hold it a reeeeeeally long time. Or, I don't know. Gosh.

Hope your having fun anyhow! Oh, and the marshmallow farm? I think they are actually hay bales wrapped in something white. :)

LOL..we saw bathrooms very similar to this in Italy. At first, I thought Oh, I dont think so and then my friend said, what are you going to do, hold it all day? Good point. haha.

Did you have to buy your toilet paper like in some public restrooms in Mexico?

Hmmm, makes the bathrooms at Wal*Mart look pristine. . . ;)

I guess this would be a little better than squatting in the woods. . . no bugs, right?