Toilets in Chile

Did I say anything about toilets? They follow the disgusting habit here (like much of Central America) of throwing toilet paper in a receptacle beside the toilet. I get the bit about not putting anything else down there but I really can’t get used to this disposal method. I guess the sewage infrastructure here is just not able to cope. 

  Driving long distances, you are hard pressed with gas stations somethings 130km apart to find banos en route. In the whole trip of 6,000k in our car, we only came across a handful of rest stops with facilities that you might want to use. Even some of the gas stations in the mining cities in the north were pretty awful. Stop the car along the roads (even the toll highways) as Ted does every 2 hours or so to walk and stretch, you come across piles of garbage, broken bottles and toilet paper everywhere. 

  So in many ways Chile is a progressive country and apparently much cleaner and safer than anywhere else in S.America. But in many ways it is still a third world country.