Tibetan Toilet habits

Warning - contains scatological material, if you think that's disgusting then don't read on...

Quick one tonight, but thought I'd do a bit on the general awfulness that is the Tibetan toilet. Bar a couple of places, it's all holes in the ground and squat loos which in itself wouldn't be too bad but for the fact that they never seem to be cleaned and only occasionally have partitions between them, and if they do, the partitions usually have poo smeared all over them. So, in general people avoid using these by pissing in the street whenever the fancy takes them. I'm talking about men here, us girls have to try and be a bit more subtle and find a rock to pee behind, and on the long landrover journeys we have all become experts at weeing by the side of the road no matter how many people may be watching. Thankfully, as it's generally pretty remote when we do this, there are only a few yaks and the rest of the group. What's also weird is that Tibetan toddlers all have the gussets cut out of their trousers so they can have easy access so they can be positioned over a drain when nature calls. Eew.

Gotta go now as net cafe about to close, off into the more remote parts for the remainder of the trip but we re assured that there is internet access in some of the places later this week!

Actually just read this back and it sounds really disgusting, sorry! But that's the reality of life here and it wouldn't be a blog without mentioning it...