The Toilet Post

So I've gotten to Guilin and rested up last night and I finally feel like I'm past any type of jet lag and exhaustion. Not too much of importance has happened that is bloggable about so I'll just talk about the toilets in China.

When I first got in to China I landed in the Hong Kong airport. The bathrooms there were Western and just like any restroom you would find in the west, just cleaner.

I then got to my hostel. The bathroom still had a Western toilet, but was in a 4 foot by 2 1/2 foot space and you also took your showers in there. There was just a tiny low flow shower faucet you could move around and a drain. Quite economical.

The first train I got on was a bit different because it had a bidet. Luckily I didn't have to sit down to use the restroom because it would've been quite frustrating as the train was very bumpy. To clean up, you had to leave the water closet and get a bucket from the hand washing station, fill it up with water, and then pour it around the hole.

At the large train station in Guangzhou, which was as large as an airport, the bathrooms were also bidets and there was a large area with troughs you wash your hands in. Right near these troughs, though, is what appears to be private hand washers. So as I walk up to wash my hands, I notice someone else barely beat me to it and start filling up his bowl of ramen noodles with the boiling hot water coming from the faucet. Close call.

And on the train to Guilin there were more train bidets and Shuai's home has a bathroom like at the hostel.

And those are the toilets I've come across so far.