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Man spends £150K to travel 75,000 miles to find world's worst public toilet

 

A man spent £150,000 and travelled 75,000 miles to 100 countries to find the world's worst public toilet and believes he has finally found it - in Tajikistan. Travel writer and blogger Graham Askey - known to his friends as "King of the Porcelain" - scanned the globe for the most disgusting loos. And he has now found the "perfect hell hole" – a ramshackle 5ft tent that serves as a toilet in northern Tajikistan. He said it is so bad those desperate enough to use it must stoop over sun-dried poo, but by far the "

A terrible public toilet

 

He says some 'wall' sections have been torn off and discarded on the cubicle floor. Graham says there is also a danger of disturbing deadly snakes and fearless rats which have all made their homes in the nearby rocks. According to 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.

A terrible public toilet
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