A Spotter’s Guide to Toilets
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My photo above, taken at Olduvai Gorge (aka Oldupai Gorge), in Tanzania, has been selected to appear in Lonely Planet’s A Spotter’s Guide to Toilets, published today.
If you buy the book you’ll find this shot on page 49 (credited to my then 500px moniker peterpix). You can also see it on Getty Images (and buy a licence!).
In my somewhat biased opinion this is one of the best coffee table books around (and ideal for the bathroom bookshelf, for guests who like to linger).
There’s a bit of a story around the taking of this photo.
The toilet block overhangs the cliff, and the “plumbing” is a sheer drop from the toilet bowl into the gorge below. No S-bend, just a lovely view of the gorge, straight down, hundreds of feet. Just before this photograph was taken, a large bat was seen flying up through the toilet seat. Fortunately none of the ladies in my party was sitting on it at the time.
The ideal choice for your bookshelf in the smallest of rooms, and handy for making your backpack heavier when you go on that life-affirming world tour of notable WCs that we’ve all been saving up for.
