Friday 23 September 2022 01:56 AM Brit blogger says he's found the world's worst toilet where the walls are used ... trends now
A British travel blogger who spent £150,000 and travelled 75,000 miles to more than 90 countries to find the world's worst public toilet says he has finally found it - in Tajikistan.
Brighton-based writer and blogger Graham Askey - known to his friends as 'King of the Porcelain' - scanned the globe for the most disgusting loos.
After visiting 91 countries and blogging writing extensively about some of the worst examples he has found, the 58-year-old has now discovered the 'perfect hell hole' - a ramshackle tent with walls that double as loo roll.
The retired builder says the 5ft-tall loo in northern Tajikistan is so bad those desperate enough to use it must stoop over sun-dried poo.
But by far the 'most repellent thing of all', Askey says, is that its fabric walls are used as shared toilet paper.
He says some 'wall' sections have been torn off and discarded on the cubicle floor. There is also a danger of disturbing deadly snakes and fearless rats which have all made their homes in the nearby rocks.
According to Mr Askey, the toilet in the Ayni region of Tajikistan, on the western edge of the Pamirs and not far from the Afghanistan border, is so vile that the locals refuse to use it unless 'absolutely desperate'.
Askey, a self-confessed 'squatter spotter', visited hundreds of public toilets in six of the world's seven continents before crowning the Tajikistan outhouse the worst of them all.
Graham Askey estimates he has spent as much as £150,000 travelling the world and photographing its public toilets
According to Mr Askey, this is the world's 'worst toilet', which can be found near the Afghanistan border in Tajikistan
Mr Askey has visited 91 countries in his quest to rate the globe's public loos - and says all of the ones listed in his new book pose a serious health risk
This collapsing structure is a makeshift toilet that Mr Askey came across in Bangladesh
A hut on 10ft-high stilts in Indonesia also made the list thanks to its death-defying walkway
He has included 36 of the 'c**ppiest c**ppers' he encountered in his new book Toilets of the Wild Frontier, which hits the shelves this week.
Other public loos that made his 'c**p list' include a sink in Bangladesh and a bath containing 'litres of number ones and twos' in China - with the plug left in.
A hut on 10ft-high
