Wednesday 18 April 2012

Thai homes


Some Thai homes look more like Western homes and have modern facilities like ours, but most homes are made of raised wooden posts so that animals and creeping insects can not enter the houses. The open area beneath the houses also served as a cool daytime workplace. There are still many houses like this today, dotted around the countryside.

Cattle are kept underneath some houses or it is setup as a shop to work or sell things.  

Not all Thai houses have a kitchen or furniture like we do. People sit and eat on the floor. There is also no shower or bath as we know it, instead there is a big 'tub' for the water and a jug. Thai people bathe by throwing water over themselves.
 Most toilets are squat toilets although the western style toilets are becoming more available. Near the squat toilets there is a container filled with water and a cup or a hose pipe. These replaces the flush of water.
 

In almost every house a TV, fridge and radio can usually be found.

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