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Scenes of people using bizarre open-air toilets in China go viral
25th of October 2017
Images of people visiting open-air washrooms in China are being shared widely on the internet.
The bizarre toilets - which have no roofs or ceilings - are situated at a run-down amusement park in Chongqing, a major city in southwest China. Web images show members of the public using the washroom while holding umbrellas to protect their modesty from would-be voyeurs in the surrounding hillside.
The washroom block is part of the city's Meixin Foreigners' Street theme park and originally built as a World's Biggest Public Bathroom tourist attraction.
The 1,000 toilets are spread out over a wide area and are divided into banks of eight, each featuring a different theme or colour. The outlandish entrance to the block has been built to resemble the Egyptian Sphinx.
Whether the toilets were originally meant to be operational or not is unclear, but recent online posts have shown them being used.
These are not the only bizarre washrooms to be found in Chongqing. A total of 23 toilets designed by the Environmental Art Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute are being erected in the city as part of a cultural project.
These washrooms resemble everything from animals and computers to transformers. One washroom has been made to look like a giant camera while another resembles the world-renowned Park Guell in Barcelona. And a recent installation of eight public urinals with no roofs or walls has sprung up in the city - right next to a children's playground.
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