Tengchong is a famous home town of overseas Chinese, a place of literature and a distributing centre of jadeite. It is also a provincial city of history and culture. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was called Dianyue. In the middle term of Dali Kingdom, Tengchong Mansion was set. Because of the importance of its location, it was defended by massive forces in the past dynasties. In the Ming Dynasty, a stone city was built, which was called “the first city on the pole”. 

Heshun Ancient Town

Heshun is like a southern Chinese riverside town. The green water passes the town. The acting prime minister of the Republic of China Li Genyuan once praised Heshun with the poem “the unique and unrivalled little Suzhou and Hangzhou”. 

The old town of Heshun firstly built in the Ming Dynasty still maintains traditional culture and architecture. The ancestral halls, memorial gates and ancient towns of the Ming and Qing Dynasties are still spread all over the town. 

On the ancient volcanic tableland, thousands of special dwellings are located by the hills and water. They are placed closely side by side and you can touch the motley years and rich cultural spirit unconsciously. 

 

Dian-Burma Anti-war Museum

The museum is the first one that was built and funded by the folk, collected by the folk and themed as anti-war. 

Its items on display are mainly over 3,500 cultural relics during WWⅡ, including relics from Chinese Expeditionary Forces, Chinese Troops in India, US-British Allies, and People's War, etc. 

Tengchong Volcano National Geological Park

Tengchong volcanic cluster is one of the youngest volcanic clusters in China, whose scale and completeness rank the first in China. 

It is famous for complete types, large scale, concentrated distribution and complete preservation. And it is called “a natural volcanic geology museum”. 

Gingko Village

The history of gingko trees is also the history of Gingko Village. There are tens of thousands of gingkoes in Jiangdong. The earth house is built with yellow mud and black tiles. Corn cobs are hung on the girder. 

Gingko trees are planted in the front of the door of all families. The old wooden doors of villagers reflect the vicissitude of the old village. And the graceful gingkoes make the old village quite enchanting. 

Dieshuihe Waterfall

Huge stones stand on the cliff roof with plunging waterfall, which is like turtles with different shapes. Dozens of steps away from the outlet, there is a stone bridge lying on the river, named Tai Chi Bridge.

This bridge is a monumental building and its craft is very important in the history of local architecture.

 

Tengchong Hot Springs

Tengchong Rehai covers rich underground thermal resources and is famous for its fantastic and grand volcanic landform and many thermal springs.

 In Tengchong, there are numerous and distinctive thermal hot spring, such as high-temperature boiling springs, thermal springs, hot springs, fountains, giant springs, low-temperature carbonated springs and so on.  In Tengchong, there are numerous and distinctive thermal hot spring, such as high-temperature boiling springs, thermal springs, hot springs, fountains, giant springs, low-temperature carbonated springs and so on. 

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 Tengchong Rehai

The terrestrial heat is mainly formed in the areas with volcanoes. In Tengchong Rehai, terrestrial heat causes the eruption of vapor and then many hot boiling springs and hot springs form. The famous “Rehai Dagunguo” is a typical landscape of such landform. Located on the hillside in Rehai, it is a basin-shaped boiling water pool with a diameter of about 3 meters. 

The pool is about 1.5 meters in depth. It sprays boiling water with 97 degrees Celsius all the year. In the center, the water temperature can be up to 102, which is like a “gunguo”（boiling pot）with boiling water. 

Because of the rich thermal resources, people can dig melt pit and build food steamer near the “gunguo”. And thermal vapor is used to cook food, steam eggs, bake sweet potatoes and bake peanuts. 

Location: Tengchong Rehai Area, Qingshui Township, Tengchong County, Baoshan City, Yunnan Province

Tel: 0875-5133333

Ticket: 60 yuan/person

Business hours: Rehai area: 8:00-21:00 (in summer), 8:00-20:00 (in winter); Rehai Hot Spring: 9:00-01:00

 

Cherry Valley

Cherry Valley is located in the west of Gaoligong Mountain and Longchuan River and it is in the nature reserves of Gaoligong Mountain. There is no frost all the year and there is abundant rainfall here, so wild cherries blooms are everywhere, from which Cherry Valley got its name. 

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