We then walked down the little dirt road around which a little village still ekes out a living on farming and selling things to the occassional tourist. Surprisingly there's also a retirement home here, so I reserved a couple of beds for mom and dad. Another surprise for little Mingun is that it has not one, but two world records. In addition to the biggest pile of bricks, it also has the world's largest bell. It was made for the temple, but since that was abandoned, it just hangs here pointlessly at the end of the village. But certainly that's a trivia question that very few people would answer correctly. (Just in case you're ever on Jeopardy and the question does get asked, I should clarify that the world's largest bell was actually in Yangon, at the Shwedagon Pagoda, but the Portuguese took it during a raid. It was so big it sank the ship, so the bell sits at the bottom of the river. So the Mingun bell is only the largest unsubmerged bell.)