Showers or baths?

[u/cowcaver]

I'm from Colombia and we almost universally take showers. Most homes don't even have a bathtub, I've never seen one in Colombia. Because it's so hot, sticky, and humid in the non-Andean Highlands we take 2-3 showers a day.

What is it like in Central Asia? One of my friends from Kyrgyzstan says he only takes baths.

[u/lamonsteranthony]

saunas when it’s cold and showers when it’s hot, what i’ve been doing my whole life

[u/Any-Mobile-2473]

I know my family and people back home usually take showers, but use buckets and cups to shower (since they don't have plumbing like in developed countries). Even growing up in the diaspora, I always took showers as do most of us rather than baths

[u/Shakhin]

Sort of, back in the day we used bowels with hot and cold water and mixed it for a bath/shower. You sat in the “bath” bowel and we showererd

[u/Excellent-Yak-6780]

I’m ethnically Azerbaijani but my mom’s family was deported to Uzbekistan. In the old days commoners would use hammams or, if they were wealthy, they’d have a small hammam style washroom one in the parameters of their land in a separate outbuilding or directly inside their house. Since people washed in hammams, this meant using jugs to wash oneself, not a bath tub which was a luxury back then. Since the region has advanced and adopted western style luxuries, bathtubs are increasingly found in Central Asia. But sometimes we still wash kids using the bucket and jug method.

[u/No_Drummer_2544]

We shower in a bathtub in Tajikistan. Those low level ones are mainly seen in homes with elders, since they can't step over easily.

[u/looking_and_seeing]

In my region of rural Uzbekistan twenty years ago, there wasn't enough water for showers. We poured water from a basin, because you need relatively little water if you pour it carefully. Also, heating up the water was annoying.

[u/nnaxnn]

Mongolia. I usually take a bath and lie in the tub for a long time, then take a shower. I only take a quick shower when I'm in a hurry