How to shit in Asia

Two notes about toilets in this part of the world:

1. Squat toilets are great, once your muscles adjust. Since there's no seat to contact your bum, even the ickiest toilet is hygenic. Gladly, most of the outhouses and toilets we've used have been clean and low-stink. As a bonus, it seems that the squatting posture makes for a straighter bowel path, thus easing the excretory exercise.


2. When you do have a flush toilet (squat or throne), the local plumbing almost never accepts toilet paper. Instead, there's a trash bin in the room in which you deposit your stained paper. You'd think this would lead to a smelly bathroom, but for some reason it doesn't. I guess it just dries up and doesn't smell, so the situation is actually perfectly fine.