Joy Guesthouse - Part 2

Now we'll look at the kitchen and bathroom!

Here is the kitchen:

 

There are cups of water placed under the cupboard where all of our food is kept, so that the ants and other bugs aren’t able to climb up its legs and get to our food.  Genius!!

And yes, there are ants EVERYWHERE else in the kitchen.  One time I left my morning breakfast out on the counter for too long, and there were about twenty little ones hiding underneath bread where I wasn’t looking.  I figured this out only after I had taken a bite out of it... so I might have gotten some extra protein in my breakfast that morning - So much for being a vegetarian.

  

The showers are open-air without a ceiling, which is nice and breezy in the morning, and ideal when I'm trying to get a full body tan.  Normally the water stays pretty cold, which is also nice because of how ridiculously hot it is here.

 

  

And finally, this is the bathroom! A traditional Indian squat toilet, with a bucket used for flushing everything down (bring your own toilet paper).  There is never a time without a frog or lizard or two or three just chillin out near the sink or on the ceiling.  Several unfortunate ants are also usually drowning in the water in the bucket at the time of flushing.

 

Here's a little frog that surprised me after I turned the light on to go brush my teeth.