Gansu Jiayuguan Hot Spring
- Location
- Jiayuguan, Gansu, China
- Water type
- bicarbonate
- Temperature
- 38 °C
- pH
- 8
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Gansu Jiayuguan Hot Spring draws sulfated and chloride mineral water from the geothermal zone of the Hexi Corridor — the narrow oasis strip between the Qilian Mountains and the Gobi Desert through which the Silk Road passed for two thousand years, connecting China to Central Asia, Persia, and Rome in the greatest network of overland trade and cultural exchange in human history. The therapeutic mineral springs serve the Jiayuguan city area, home to the magnificent western terminus of the Great Wall of China — the Jiayuguan Pass fortress, whose towers and battlements rise from the desert floor between the Qilian snowfields and the Gobi horizon in one of China's most dramatically evocative historical landscapes. Combining sulfated mineral bathing with the extraordinary historical atmosphere of the western Great Wall terminus — known historically as the 'Mouth of China' beyond which lay the great unknown of Central Asia — creates a thermal experience embedded in one of the most historically significant geographic crossroads on earth.