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Caribbean Toilets (Trinidad)
This is the shared toilet at Pearl's Guest House,
a great place to stay in
Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago.
Pearl's
3-4 Victoria Square East
Port of Spain
+1-868-625-2158
The bathtub looks really funky because it has been lined
with small ceramic tiles!
The shower head has an in-line electric water heater.
There is no large reservoir tank of hot water — the
water is immediately heated as it passes through this
combination heater and sprinkler head.
This is another shot from
the shared bathroom at Pearl's Guest House,
Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago.
A lot of the
bars in Trinidad
feature enormous tank-like urinals.
There's just that trough, the sink, and nothing more,
so it's pretty obvious that it's the urinal.
But still, it seems like you're doing something
you probably shouldn't...
This one seen here at the 52 Bar along the
Western Main Road in Port of Spain.
Click here to see many pictures
and stories from my trip to Trinidad.
Also see
the toiletological signage page
for some toiletological signs from Trinidad.
Also see
my non-toiletological pictures from Trinidad.
Rose George's
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World
of Human Waste and Why It Matters
is a fascinating description of sanitation conditions
around the world.
"2.6 billion people don't have sanitation. [....]
Four in ten people have no access to any latrine, toilet, bucket, or box."
In September 2009, Morna Gregory and Sian James published a book titled
Toilets of the World.
It's pretty much the same theme that you find here — photographs
and commentary on other people's plumbing.
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A Sani-Flush blue border indicates a toilet that I've used.
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How long have my Toilets of the World pages been around?
I'm not exactly sure, although they started in the mid 1990s
as a single page on a Purdue University server.
The Internet Archive Wayback Machine lets you see
what that looked like as far back as January 17, 1999.
My cromwell-intl.com domain appeared in September, 2001,
although the Wayback Machine didn't notice its one enormous
Toilet of the World page until
January 17, 2002.
Some time soon after that I split it into categories,
and the collection has grown ever since.
If you're not bored yet, you might be interested in
(or at least tolerate):
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