Lincang Mengding Hot Springs

Lincang Mengding Hot Springs are natural geothermal springs near Mengding in Lincang City, a prefecture in southwestern Yunnan Province bordering Myanmar, where bicarbonate thermal waters emerge from the active tectonic belt of the Yunnan-Indochina block — a zone of intense geological deformation that produces abundant geothermal activity throughout the mountains of western Yunnan. The Mengding area is within the broader cultural sphere of the Wa people, one of Yunnan's most culturally distinctive ethnic minorities, whose traditional territory spans the China-Myanmar borderlands and whose ancient connection to the mountain forests and rivers of this region extends for millennia. The bicarbonate hot springs of Mengding offer therapeutic bathing in a remote border landscape of lush subtropical forests, Wa cultural heritage, and the atmospheric mystery of one of southwestern China's least-visited thermal regions.