North African Toilets
Muhamed Aly Bedouin village, Dahab, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt.
This is a classic floor-mounted squatter with integrated plumbing.
The shower head mounts on the wall of the room, and the toilet drains the entire room. The hose/sprayer also reaches the toilet itself for hygenic purposes.
This is excellent by Egyptian standards, but then it's in Sinai and not along the Nile. By the way, Dahab is on the beach, and that's sand you see there!
Pit toilet constructed from local rubble, just below the summit of Mt Sinai, Egypt.
Not actually from the era of Moses, thought to be approximately 1450 BC, but the mountain has been a major pilgrimage site at least since when the Byzantine Empress Helena (ruled 313-328 AD) established a monastery at the base of the mountain.
You'd think that during close to 1,700 years they'd have had time to put doors and a roof on the thing!
And yes, the sani-flush blue background does indicate that that I have used this toilet, just as it means on all my other pages.
- See pictures of my trip to Egypt for much more on Mount Sinai and Egypt in general.
- Also compare this to the pit toilet in the Besparmak Daglari of Turkey.
- This one is also filed under Biblical Toilets, Old Testament.
- Also see the Loos With Views page
| A Sani-Flush blue border indicates a toilet that I've used. |
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