Loos with views: The best from around the world
Nature’s call has never been so beautifully answered, as Lonely Planet's latest book shows
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Your support makes all the difference.As any experienced traveller knows, you can tell a whole lot about a place by its bathrooms. Whatever you prefer to call them, toilets are a (sometimes opaque, often wide-open) window into the secret soul of a destination.
Published today, Lonely Planet’s new book, Toilets: A Spotter’s Guide, is a homage to porcelain pews with fantastic views, as well as attention-seeking urban outhouses, and eco-thrones in all sorts of wild settings, from precipitous mountain peaks to dusty deserts.
The lavatory is a great leveller – everyone feels the call of nature, every day – but, like any common species, being ubiquitous doesn’t make it uniform. Around the planet, toilets have followed various evolutionary pathways to best suit their environment.
Among the entries you’ll find a remote toilet island in Belize, a waterfall washroom in Taiwan and a bird's-eye view bathroom from The Shard.
Toilets: A Spotter’s Guide is published by Lonely Planet (£7.99, shop.lonelyplanet.com)
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