So the Myanmar currency is called kyat (pronounced jat). So far I have see 1000, 500, 200, 100 kyat bills. But there exists nothing higher than 1000. Now I know what you're thinking, in the US, we don't have $1000 bills. This is true. But what is also true is that hotels do not cost $10,000 US a night. The exchange is currently around 1000 kyat to every dollar. So this means that people (and I mean locals, not just foreigners) carry huge stacks of bills with them everywhere they go. a good meal at a moderate local place might cost 2000 kyat per person. Of course you can find cheaper, and more expensive, but the truth is that carrying around kyat is like carrying around stacks of $1 bills, which would inevitably lead to a
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