Kyaing Tong or Keng Tung? Doesn’t matter, just go!

Kyaing Tong or Keng Tung? Doesn’t matter, just go!

Kengtung, Keng Tung, Kyaingtong, Kyaing Tong, Chiang Tung: same place, different spellings and pronunciations. The first is what the locals call it as many speak a Shan language (and also the Myanmar language spoken around the country). Kyaingtong, according to at least one local resident, is the official name given by the government and the first two letters make a j-like sound. Whether there should be a space between the