-Of the entire population 80-85% are Buddhists.
-70% of the country's monks live in Mandalay.
-Instead of www. Standing for world wide web, it stands for
wait wait wait
-Burma and Rangoon are the old British colonial names. Now
they use Myanmar and Yangon.
-1 of 3 countries in the world that doesn’t have a contract
with Coke. They import the coke from Thailand.
-People here love saying hello, and tend to do it until they
get a hello back, which makes them so happy.
-The kings used to love to move the capital city, which is
why Yangon, Mandalay, Amarapura, and many more cities all used to be capitals
of Myanmar.
-Our guide’s joke in Mandalay: “that there (pointing to a
bunch a yellow buildings) is the government hotel. Very easy to check in, very
hard to check out.” His explanation of a prison.
-Another guide joke: the Chinese eat with 2 chopsticks, the
Burmese eat with 5. (Talking about their fingers).
-The guide joking about the number of Chinese in Mandalay.
You wake up to a Chinese alarm clock. Eat a Chinese breakfast. Drive your
Chinese motorcycle to work, which is run by Chinese. Go back home and make
plans with your Chinese friends for a Chinese dinner.
-There are approximately 500,000 monks in Myanmar and only
40,000 nuns.
-Myanmar became a British colony in 1885 and gained
independence in 1948. Aung Sun Suu Kyi’s father, General Aung Sun helped
establish independence before he was executed.
-Quick way to tell the difference between a temple and
pagoda: you can go in a temple but not a pagoda.
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