Guizhou Tongren Hot Spring
- Location
- Tongren, Guizhou, China
- Water type
- calcium-rich
- Temperature
- 38 °C
- pH
- 7.3
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
Guizhou Tongren Hot Spring draws calcic mineral water from the karst geological zone of the Tongren basin in eastern Guizhou — one of China's most spectacular karst plateau landscapes and the homeland of the Miao, Tujia, and Dong ethnic minorities, whose extraordinary cultural traditions of silver jewelry, indigo-dyed textiles, and wooden drum festivals represent some of the most distinctive and visually rich ethnic folk cultures preserved anywhere in contemporary China. The calcic thermal springs serve the mountain city of Tongren, gateway to the extraordinary Fanjingshan UNESCO World Heritage mountain — a solitary sandstone peak rising 2,570 meters from the surrounding karst plateau, its summit temples perched on twin needles of rock in a setting of otherworldly geological drama. Combining calcic mineral bathing with the extraordinary minority cultural heritage of Miao and Tujia ethnic communities and the dramatic Fanjingshan mountain pilgrimage landscape creates a Guizhou thermal experience of great natural and ethnographic richness in southwestern China's most culturally diverse highland region.