Specifically, Squat toilets. On my last trip through, Yunnan Province, it suddenly dawned on me that I had been doing an aweful lot of taking pictures of the beautiful mountains rising into the misty clouds and the gleaming brown waters of the Yangtze river slithering silently along beside us for a chunk of the trip, a brown mud snake....all these breathtaking photos had distracted me from the more mundane, far less visually asthetically pleasing, yet no less interesting phenomenon of Squat Toilets. Think about it for a moment if you will...they are not exactly commonplace in the US and even if you are familiar with them due to experiences abroad you have likely never thought of them as picture worthy until you have encountered the variety of squat toilets in China (plus throw in the the
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