Before you go to Thailand, so as not to find yourself in uncomfortable situations, not to think that you have gone crazy or that a time machine has transported you to another dimension of time, you should definitely leave armed with information about this country and its people.

First of all, it's not 2019 in Thailand. If you decide, for example, to buy some product in Thai stores and see the production date of 2562, do not think that it was brought from the future (as sometimes happens in our country, when, for example, the production date of an egg can be in a couple of days after the date of purchase). Here they are guided by the Buddhist calendar, that is, the chronology begins from the day of Buddha's transition to Nirvana, this is 543 years before the beginning of our calendar, that is, to the current year, 2019, we add 543, and it turns out that in Thailand there are now 2562.

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