Monday, August 13, 2007

A bathroom


The bathroom in our room in Krui deserves a description. Maybe with a quick introduction to Indonesian bathrooms. They have no sink, no shower or bathtub, and the toilet is Turkish-style (hole on the ground). There is a large, concrete, open, water container, from which you take water and throw it on yourself, with a small plastic pan. I will refrain from optimization considerations, lest I should be accused of narrow-mindedness.

In this case, the bathroom is green, several shades of it. It has a high step to get in, and a smaller one to keep the water from overflowing out. The toilet is on an even higher step, unusual. You barely have room to close the (green) door when you are inside. Coming out is dangerous. And the water tank is huge, on a side, 1.5m deep, alimented by an intermittent flow of water from a tiny old tap. It has a strong personality.

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