Photos from ‘Loo with a View’

on January 21, 2012
Images reprinted with permission from Loo With a View by Luke Barclay. Copyright 2011 Firefly Books Ltd.

Alcatraz Guard Tower

Alcatraz Guard Tower: Look closely and you'll see the toilet in this tower of the prison, which closed in 1963, providing a sweeping vista of San Francisco Bay.

Images reprinted with permission from Loo With a View by Luke Barclay. Copyright 2011 Firefly Books Ltd.

Mount McKinley

Mount McKinley: When you gotta go, you gotta go...even in the snow! This "loo" in Alaska's Denali National Park faces the formidable face of Mt. McKinley's Mount Forester.

Images reprinted with permission from Loo With a View by Luke Barclay. Copyright 2011 Firefly Books Ltd.

Tengboche Monastery

Tengboche Monastery: You can see Mt. Everest from this bathroom in Nepal's high-altitude Sagarmantha National Park.

Images reprinted with permission from Loo With a View by Luke Barclay. Copyright 2011 Firefly Books Ltd.

Thiksey Buddist Monastery

The mountaintop view from a toilet at the Thiksey Buddist Monastery in India.

Images reprinted with permission from Loo With a View by Luke Barclay. Copyright 2011 Firefly Books Ltd.

Banks of the Zambezi

In a bush camp in the national park on the continent of Africa, you can see elephants, hippos and crocodiles from your "perch" on the riverbank.

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