Toilets in Central Asia

In 2012 some real bad examples of toilets alerted me on the fact that travel and toilets are a topic to comment on. I don’t want to go on and point on every bad toilet I’ve seen on my travels, but some experiences a worth to be passed.

Sometimes there is nothing but a very basic and very dirty hole in the ground. And sometimes you utterly surprised about the good condition of a toilet, where you didn’t expect such luxury. I will show some examples and can’t cover the topic exhaustively.

This rather unpromising raw building has been one of the very few options in between Khiva and Buchara.

Sorry to say, but the first impression turned out to be right. Though someone had a very good idea and put awesome effort into putting up a toilet in the desert, some butthead spoiled it.

As people are discrete, one doesn't need to have a door - or do you think otherwise?

The corresponding hole - I recall the odour and ... flies.

This is a washing room adjecent to a mosque in Tashkent. Marvelous. And of course marble.

The corresponding toilet 

Links:

Travel and Toilets

http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2013/03/travel-and-toilets.html

High Tech Toilets in Japan

http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2013/04/high-tech-toilets-in-japan.html

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As Autumn Progresses

Autumn progresses slowly this year. But pictures show completion and the begin of decay. Sad, but necessary, otherwise the world would as depicted in Torchwood.

Sunny October 

Caressing the sky with clouds 

Cricket’s happy song

Autumn colours

Leaves won't fall yet

As the birds still sing

09.12.2014
After returning from my vacation I realized that autumn already had progressed far, but there is also hope. And a hint to a new beginning.

All the leaves are brown ...

Golden stars

You might like to look at Autumn approaching, too:
http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2014/09/autumn-approaching.html 

Konkrete Poesie

Ich habe beim Durchsehen alter Bücher noch ein paar Bespiele konkreter Poesie entdeckt, die ich keinem vorenthalten will. Teilweise schon in Dieter Roths "Zeitschrift für Alles" veröffentlicht (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Roth).

Markets in Central Asia

While travelling through Central Asia, I had the opportunity to visits markets. I like markets. I go on markets at home to buy fresh bread, fruits & veggies, but even more I like looking at markets in foreign countries. You can watch people and what they are buying and how they are buying. The weather in Tashkent and Almaty was bad, so the colours aren't as vivid as in the other locations.

Samarkand

Inside Siyob Bazaar

Even without a market stall, people are selling goods

All kinds of spices

In front of the bazaar

Waiting for customers - No Halloween in Samarkand!

Watermelons

I couldn't communicate so much to elucidate, what this gentleman was going to buy.

Pass in between Samarkand and Shakhrsabz

Shakhrsabz

Tashkent

Looks much like my Grandmother's bottled fruits and veggies.

Grains, noodles, oil

The bushel is still in use ...

(Don't hide your light under a bushel!)

Red rice is most expensive.

Lovely, how the fruits are displayed!

Almaty

Outside of the Green Bazaar

As it was just starting to rain, business was slow.

The Kyzyl Kum in Uzbekistan

The Kyzyl Kum is a desert in Uzbekistan. It is Uzbek and means red sand. The region is hot during summer, more than 51° C (125° F) have been recorded. There are oasis in beteween und outside there are the remnants of the rivers Amu Darya and Syr Darya, which seldom reach the Aral Sea as most water is used in agriculture outside the Kyzyl Kum before. The area isn't without economic interest because of natural gas, gold, silver, uranium, copper, and more. But I didn't visit any of these places. Rather I had a bus ride with a couple of stops. Airconditoned I listed to a passage from a book, how extremely dangerous it had been to cross the desert. Some only survived by chance. During Soviet times the seeds of the saxaul shrub were distributed throughout the desert, changing the appearance and making some parts usable as pastures for sheep and goats, also for cattle. Most important saxaul fixes sanddunes, of which I could only see some small ones along the road.

Indicating a rest area. but not a tree within 200 km along the road!

Saxaul shrubs

Don't stray too far from the road!

Sand dunes

A long road with heat, sand, and no water

An outpost with water from irrigation

Tamarinds appear as we were approaching the oasis of Buchara

FreitagsGedichte / #KurzLyrik 17.10.2014

 

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Weitere #KurzLyrik:

http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2015/01/freitagsgedichte-kurzlyrik-30012015.html
http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2015/01/freitagsgedichte-kurzlyrik-23012015.html 
http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2015/01/freitagsgedichte-kurzlyrik-16012015.html 
http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2015/01/freitagsgedichte-kurzlyrik-09012015.html
http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2014/12/freitagsgedichte-kurzlyrik-12122014.html

http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2014/11/freitagsgedichte-kurzlyrik-07112014.html

http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2014/10/freitagsgedichte-kurzlyrik-31102014.html

http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2014/10/freitagsgedichte-kurzlyrik-24102014.html

http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2014/09/freitagsgedichte-kurzlyrik-19092014.html

http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2014/09/freitagsgedichte-kurzlyrik-12092014.html

http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2014/09/freitagsgedichte-kurzlyrik-05092014.html

http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2014/08/freitagsgedichte-kurzlyrik-29082014.html

http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2014/08/freitagsgedichte-kurzlyrik-22082014.html

http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2014/08/freitagsgedichte-kurzlyrik-15082014.html

http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2014/08/freitagsgedichte-kurzlyrik-08082014.html

http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2014/08/freitagsgedichte-kurzlyrik-01082014.html

http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2014/07/freitagsgedichte-kurzlyrik-25072014.html

http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2014/07/freitagsgedichte-kurzlyrik-18072014.html

http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2014/07/freitagsgedichte-kurzlyrik_11.html

http://rheumatologe.blogspot.de/2014/07/freitagsgedichte-kurzlyrik.html

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