Lonely Planet Releases a Toilet Guide Book

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Outhouse, Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal. © David Ruiz Luna / 500px

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Little "toilet island," Belize. © Tomas Mahring / 500px

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Two toilets made of palm tree leaves, Brazil. © Thomas Heinze / 500px

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An outhouse with a view, which flushes twice a day. Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia, Canada. © Chris Kolaczan / 500px

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Toilet waterfall in Foshan, China. © Al Sol / 500px

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Men's restroom at the Sony Center in Berlin, Germany. © Werner Monatsspruch / 500px

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Toilet in Reykjavik, Iceland. © Gisli Hjalmar Svendsen/ 500px

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Panorama toilet in in Thiksey Monastery in Ladakh, India. © Bernhard S. / 500px

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Lavatory with a special view. Kongsberg, Norway. © Olaf Menz / 500px

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A washroom which taps it's water from the nearby waterfall in Baiyang Trail in Taroko National Park, Taiwan. © Jan Philipp Kohrs / 500px

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Time spent in the toilet is often time spent distracting oneself from the graffitied and mold-ridden walls of your cubicle, but with these bathrooms, you might forget what you went there for in the first place. Located everywhere from the frigid Himalayan plateau and on a picturesque desert island in the Caribbean Sea, to a waterfall washroom in a Taiwanese national park, they are part of a selection of 100 of the world’s most scenic and unique bathrooms compiled by Lonely Planet in a new guidebook titled Toilets: A Spotter’s Guide. “As any experienced traveler knows, you can tell a whole lot about a place by its bathrooms,” says Lonely Planet in the book’s introduction. “Toilets are a window into the secret soul of a destination.”

A must-read for the W.C. aficionado, Toilets: A Spotter’s Guide will become available at bookstores internationally for $12 USD from April 12 onwards.

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