Toilets in Peru: Travel Tips

"SONJIA CUHER: Toilets. Well, I don't know we have a problem in Peru about it. For some reason there most of the bathrooms are dirty, not very accessible, and the toilet paper is so rough. Plus, you don't ever flush the toilet paper in the toilet. There is a basket near you where you have to just dump the paper. And if you go to an open toilet--I mean open restroom, you're going to find a gigantic, one of those like industrial size of buckets of barrels full of water, so you grab a bucket and dump the water after you use the restroom. Of course, you know the only way to get a nice toilet is probably if you go to a very expensive hotel but still you're not going to get very soft toilet paper for some reason. You know Peru--it's a--they've--we export cotton, the best cotton in the world but we don't make the toilet paper. So you gotta take soft tissue toilet paper and remember every time that you use your restrooms, you gotta pay. Probably you end up paying like 30 cents of a dollar, and most of the restaurants or hotels, they won't let you use the toilet unless you are staying at that place or you are eating. They're funny about it and they don't let people use it, no matter if they--you can be a native or you can be a tourist they would just won't let you. So be prepared and if you have to use, just look for it and just be patient. Don't forget, take your soft toilet paper."