Forget toilet rolls, just take some packs of wet wipes. These are useful also for cleaning your hands before eating, cleaning the bike headlight/mirrors/indicators, and all sort of other things.

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Wet Wipes/Baby wipes - certainly one of the most important items in any overlanders kit.......................yet strangely lacking from most discussions

Even us 4x4 drivers will have a pack somewhere, and if someone says they don't they are lying

What a crap job the poor old bog roll has to do....

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Wet wipes win over bog rolls. baby wipes are everywhere in the world.

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But they need to be padded out with some bog roll or other tissue since they lack bulk and are porous.

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....what's wrong with going native???
Just remenber to use the right hand which of course is the left hand.

I always carry a few small bottles of alcohol hand wash to use when caught out and before eating; they're small, light and easy to pack away or tuck into a small pocket.

If all else fails.

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Ha! I will just tell you one thing: Once you get used to the left hand and the water, you will really appreciate that system (Millions of people use that everyehere, none has died from it as far as I know).

So here's my 2 tricks:

#1 Take a haf litre or 75 Bottle (I personally use Oxygen Water ones from the petrol station because of the squirt-lid they come with) full (FULL FULL) with water. If you use a normal water bottle, have a lid with a small hole in it (your leatherman tool will help you with that) as you done with your business aim at your anus holding the bottle in your right hand and sqqueeze firmly. The spray will take away some firm bits that may still hang about there. Then rub with your left while still sprinkling water. This is a way gentler way to get yourself clean as smearing your poo up and down your crack with paper. Especially when you have some problems and need to go very often it prevents you from getting rash quite effectively.

#2 Sprinkle a little water before you squeeze that brick out, poo won't stick on a wet surface ;-) means easyer clean afterwards. Try this at home, wet or not , the first swipe with paper will tell you the difference (do that over a couple of sessions, it convinced me 100%.)


Bad thing about toilet paper in desert climates: for the lack of moisture it won't decompose as quickly as it would at home... so take a lighter to torch it if you feel like you must use paper. Mini torches used for soldering do a good job here. Wind will uncover your business sooner or later and the paper will fly...


I promise this will change your life! (And it's good for nature too. Guess the bog roll industry won't approve but immagine the Impact worldwide. No more use for bog roll... No more pollution in production and disposal... )

Millions of people have died worldwide because of diseases in fecal matter.

Unless you wear single-use gloves, make sure to use a lot of alcohol and/or soap and water to desinfect those fingers after you have "massaged" the bunghole.

Read recently that a fatwa has been issued allowing Muslims to use toilet paper.

I don't imagine that will mean paper will be available in toilets all over the world but that won't matter because all over the world, toilet paper is NOT routinely supplied. Bring your own ALWAYS because then and only then will you always have toilet paper.

BTW toilet paper is readily available in even little village stores all over Morocco, albeit in smaller rolls than in the west.

Just remember to put the used paper in the bin since most sewer systems can't handle paper

Using water?? Yes, can just imagine that at 4am in Patagonia - outside the tent, pitch black, below freezing and wind at Force 5. You will need one hand just to hold on to a tree to stop from being blown away.

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I'm in Morocco now, and a combination of wet wipes and toilet tissue works well.

All hotels will have western toilets, it's just the places you might stop at along the way, or if out on the piste.

Carry some alcohol gel, many bathrooms down have soap.

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Look what I have been given....

The branding is interesting but the operation of the product may be made a little harder.

Would of been easier if there was a captain brown, or something like that!

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The bottle placed facing downwards etween your knees squeezing it provides the outdoor "sink"... wash your hands after having used the Bathroom was standard to me and I thoght it's quite common... So for you TwoUpFront:

#3 After going to the toilet, WASH YOUR HANDS!


(Alcohol is not needed, thats western germ paranoia. If this was dangerous, there wouldn't be more ppl in India than in europe and USA combined ;-) ) (yess, I googled it, wikipedia confirms those numbers...)

Diseases of facal matter (Cholera and the like) happen when your poo-germs get into drinking water. What way you wiped your butt when releasing them doesn't matter...

Sure. Birth rates are irrelevant.

Or your food. People tend to touch things during the day.

I will also note, that "washing your hands" in much of the muslim world, often constitutes dipping and rubbing your hands in a basin with water alone, and not under running water using soap.

But, hey, no need to worry about diseases as there are more people there than here. It must then be perfectly risk and disease free.

Seriously, I'm done. If you think that the amount of people in a part of the world somehow proves a certain type of behaviour is as safe as another behaviour in another part of the world, then there is nothing I can say.

West Africans are more acutely aware of the importance of hygiene then most westerners.

I have often witnessed locals being upset with the behaviour of us 'white people' in these matters.