Zhenjiang Maoshan Hot Spring

Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China

Location: Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China
Water type: sodium chloride
Temperature: 38 °C
pH: 7.3

Water profile

Thermicity

Neutral

38 °C

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Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.

Mineralisation

Restorative

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Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).

Buoyancy

Effortless float

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Dense, salty water — you float without effort.

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Zhenjiang Maoshan Hot Spring is a thermal spa in Zhenjiang, a historically significant city on the southern bank of the Yangtze River in Jiangsu Province, China, famous for its role in multiple Chinese dynasties and the nearby Maoshan Mountain — one of Taoism's most sacred sites, known as the 'First Blessed Land of the First Cave Heaven' in Taoist cosmology. The naturally sulfate-chloride spring waters here carry dual mineral benefits combining the anti-inflammatory properties of sulfate waters with the circulation-warming effects of chloride-sodium springs, offering a particularly comprehensive therapeutic bathing profile. Surrounded by the spiritual atmosphere of one of China's most revered Taoist mountains and the historical resonance of a Yangtze River city with over 3,000 years of history, Maoshan Hot Spring offers an unusually spiritually charged thermal bathing experience.

Insider tip — Zhenjiang Maoshan Hot Spring draws on deep Jurassic geothermal aquifers beneath the sacred Maoshan hills, one of Taoism's four holy mountains in Jiangsu province. The sodium-chloride waters at 38°C are blended with trace sulfate minerals, valued in traditional Chinese medicine for their warming and detoxifying properties. Maoshan's Taoist temples, revolutionary history museum, and dense mist-covered bamboo forests create an atmospheric setting rarely found at Chinese thermal resorts.

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