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KENGTUNG INLE LAKE AND THE EAST 271
(750m) & Pin Tau (15km)
KENGTUNG N
ACCOMMODATION
Amazing Kyaing Tong Resort 2
Harry’s Trekking House 1
Princess 3
Sam Yweat 4 M O NG YA N G R O A D
EATING Wan Saen, Wan Nyek & Mong La
Azure 1
Café 21 2 Wat Zom Khum A I R P OR T R O A D 6
Golden Banyan 3
Lod Htin Lu 4
Colony House
Naung Tung
Lake
Immigration
Office
KBZ
Bank
Shared Taxi
and Bus Station
Z AY D A N L O A N G S T R E E T
Sunfar Loi Mwe
Travels
T A R YA W R O A D NONG KEYAO STREET
Taunggyi & Inle Lake Standing K YA IN G L A N R O A D Thet 2 N D K E N G L A R N R O A D Z AY D AN K A L AY R OA D
T A U NG G Y I  T A C H I L E I K R O A D
Buddha
Cultural
Nay
Museum CB Bank Woon
1ST KENG LARN ROAD
Immaculate KBZ Bank
Heart Cathedral Kengtung Shwe Mya
Nong Market Taw Express
Nawng Yang Yae
Lake Lake
0 200 TA UN G G Y I  TA C H I L E I K R D
metres
Ho Kyim & Tachileik
many wearing traditional clothes and headgear. Entering from the town side, you’ll run
the gauntlet of kitchenware, cheap clothing and other workaday fare, though before
long you’ll track down one of the areas with stalls selling ethnic beads and fabrics.
Naung Tung Lake
• Best accessed from the Taunggyi–Tachileik Rd to the south, or the small road south of Amazing Kyaing Tong hotel
to the east
At the heart of Kengtung, the small Nang Tung Lake is undoubtedly the prettiest place
in the city. The best views are from the east side, near the Azure café (see p.273), from
where you can make out the standing Buddha statue (see p.272), framed by the Shan
mountains cascading into the distance – particularly beautiful during sunset. You can
walk around the whole lake in half an hour along the small and relatively traffic-free
road which circles it. Overlooking the lake from the east is the town’s old colonial
quarter, which includes several buildings surviving from the British era; best is the
Colony House on Mong Yang Road.

Wat Zom Khum
On the hill between Mong Yang Rd and Airport Rd • Daily 4am–8pm • Free
Peeking down on Kengtung from a lofty vantage point atop a small hill above the lake,
Wat Zom Khum (also known as Wat Jong Kham) is by far the most appealing of the