Xinlong Hot Springs

Xinlong Hot Springs is a geothermal bathing destination in Xinlong County in the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province, situated on the eastern Tibetan Plateau at high altitude along one of the historic routes of the Red Army's Long March of 1934-1935. The sulfurous and oligomineral thermal waters emerge from the tectonically and volcanically active geology of the Tibetan Plateau borderlands at temperatures pleasant for bathing, and have been used by the local Tibetan population for bathing and ritual purposes within the framework of Tibetan tradition for many centuries. The extraordinary landscape of the Garzê Tibetan Plateau — vast grasslands, snow peaks, Tibetan monasteries, and nomadic herding culture — surrounds the springs with an environment of profound natural and cultural depth rarely encountered by visitors to Chinese thermal destinations. Xinlong Hot Springs offers a uniquely remote and spiritually resonant thermal experience on the Tibetan Plateau, where geothermal energy and Tibetan cultural heritage converge in one of Asia's most extraordinary highland landscapes.