Toilets in Peru: Travel Tips

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Summary: When traveling in Peru, don't flush your toilet paper because it can clog the toilet. Learn about using toilets in Peru, and bathroom etiquette, in this free Peru travel advice video.

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By Sonjia Cuher
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Sonjia Cuher takes four or five trips to Peru every year, and has taken groups of tourists on Peruvian adventures. She is originally from the Highlands of Peru, and now lives in the...read more

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on 11/22/2008 PLEASE SEND TOILET SEATS TO PERU!! THEY HAVE TOILETS…BUT NO SEATS!! We spent two weeks in Peru from Lima, to Cusco, to Aqua Caliente, to Puerto Maldonado, and back to Lima. Everywhere we went it was the same...no toilet seats...in restaurants, in market places, in stores, even in the eco lodges, everywhere except our hotels. While it’s probably not the case in some places…it was certainly a rarity to see toilet seats in much of the Peru that we visited. From Cusco, to Aqua Caliente, to Puerto Maldonado; it didn’t matter the quality of the establishment – we were taking our chances when visiting the restrooms. They were easy enough to find, no matter where we traveled, but cleanliness didn’t seem to be a priority. Our Hotels were the only exception since we stayed in some exceptional places. In the public markets and such 50 Centavos buys you 10 squares of Toilet Paper. Then you need to decide if you want to line the bowl with it to protect your backside...or just tough it out and use it for its intended purpose!! Toilet Paper...never leave home without it!! We all carried those travel sized packages of tissue paper along with pocket sized anti-bacterial wipes; since sinks with soap and water were also rare. We never let any of this slow us down, or spoil our enjoyment of such an incredible country. The opportunity to explore Peru was worth the minor discomforts of a dirty restroom.

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"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."

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