I had this thing about the toilets - I loathed them! Some people can get on OK with
'squats', but I found them the natural alternative to Immodium. Ah well, at
least, they are very well sign-posted in English... I cannot believe I was just sporting a tee-shirt here. The temperature was only just above freezing. It must have been the squat that put my mind off the cold! |
Showers (if you were lucky enough to have this luxury facility at your B&B) were
little more than a warm dribble via a bucket. Wendy (smiling face above door) demonstrates this luxury. The young Nepalese assistant is kept busy topping her up with hot water boiled on the open fire, which is fuelled with dried yak dung.. And all for Mrs B's unashamed ablutions! Despite the apparent sunny day, the outside temperature here was between 1 and 3 degrees Celcius. |
Here she is again - out of the shower (in record quick time!) drying the towels and
trousers out on the wall after washing in the freezing cold mountain water.
The pats on the wall? The Yak dung has to dried out somewhere, before it's burnt on the fire as fuel. The Nepalese farmers are quite energy conscious, and understand that burning lots of wood (a rare commodity in this area) ruins the eco-system. |