Myanmar

Did you know?

• 🏛Bagan plain holds the ruins of over 2,000 Buddhist temples built between the 9th and 13th centuries.
• ✨Officially switched its name from Burma to Myanmar in 1989.
• ✨Drives on the right side of the road, but most cars have right-hand steering wheels — a legacy of cheap imports from Japan.
• 🌳Thanaka — a yellow paste made from tree bark — is worn on the face as sunscreen and decoration.
• 🏞Inle Lake's fishermen famously row standing up with one leg wrapped around the oar.