Kaili Hot Springs Guizhou

Kaili Hot Springs are geothermal springs in Kaili city, the de facto capital of the Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture of southeastern Guizhou Province, China, where bicarbonate thermal waters emerge from the karst limestone geology of the Guizhou Plateau in a region home to the world's largest concentration of Miao people — one of China's most culturally vibrant ethnic minorities, famous for their extraordinary silver jewelry, embroidered textiles, and the Lusheng musical tradition. Guizhou's dramatic karst landscape of stone forests, underground rivers, and waterfall-filled gorges provides the geological context for the bicarbonate springs of Kaili, which are used therapeutically amid the ethnic festival culture that marks Kaili's identity as a center of Miao and Dong cultural heritage tourism. The spring bathing experience in Kaili combines thermal wellness with the extraordinary opportunity to encounter the living traditions of Miao and Dong culture in one of China's most authentically multicultural provincial capitals.