Tengchong is a famous home-town of overseas Chinese, a place of literature and a distributing centre of jadeite. It is also a provincial city of history and culture. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was called Dianyue. In the middle term of Dali Kingdom, Tengchong Mansion was set. Due to the importance of its location, it was defended by massive forces during past dynasties. In the Ming Dynasty, a stone city was built, which was called “extreme side of the first city”.
Heshun Ancient Town
Heshun is like a southern Chinese riverside town, with green water passing the area. The acting prime minister of the Republic of China Li Genyuan once praised Heshun with the poem, “the unique and unrivalled little Suzhou and Hangzhou”. The old town of Heshun, first built in the Ming Dynasty, still maintains traditional culture and architecture. The ancestral halls, memorial gates and ancient towns of the Ming and Qing Dynasties are still spread all over the area.
On the ancient volcanic tableland, thousands of special dwellings are located by the hills and water. They are placed closely side-by-side and you can feel the rich cultural spirit unconsciously.
Dian-Burma Anti-war Museum
The museum is the first one that was built and funded by the private, collected by the private and themed as anti-war. Items on display mainly include over 3,500 cultural relics from WWⅡ, including items from Chinese Expeditionary Forces, Chinese Troops in India, US-British Allies and the People's War and so on.
Tengchong Volcano National Geological Park
Tengchong volcanic cluster is one of the youngest volcanic clusters in China, whose scale and completeness ranks top in China. It is famous for complete types, large scale, concentrated distribution and complete preservation. It is regarded as “a natural volcanic geology museum.”
Gingko Village
The history of gingko trees is symbolic of the history of Gingko Village. There are tens of thousands of gingkoes in Jiangdong.
Earth houses are constructed using yellow mud and black tiles. Corn cobs are hung out. Gingko trees are planted at the front door of all family dwellings. The traditional wooden doors reflect the vicissitude of the old village. And the graceful gingkoes make the old village quite enchanting.
Dieshuihe Waterfall
Huge stones stand on the cliff top with plunging waterfalls, resembling turtles of different shapes. Dozens of steps away from the outlet, there is a stone bridge lying on the river, named Tai Chi Bridge. This bridge is a monumental building and its craft is very important in the history of local architecture.
Tengchong Hot Spring
Tengchong Rehai covers rich underground thermal resources and is famous for its fantastic and grand volcanic landform and many thermal springs. In Tengchong, there are numerous and distinctive thermal hot springs, such as high-temperature boiling springs, thermal springs, hot springs, fountains, giant springs, low-temperature carbonated springs and so on.
Tengchong Rehai
The terrestrial heat is mainly formed in the areas with volcanoes. In Tengchong Rehai, terrestrial heat causes the eruption of vapour and then many hot boiling springs and hot springs form.
The famous “Rehai Dagunguo” is a typical landscape of such landform. Located on the hillside in Rehai, it is a basin-shaped boiling water pool with a diameter of about three metres. The pool is about 1.5 metres in depth.
It sprays boiling water of 97 degrees Celsius throughout the year. At its heart, the water temperature can be up to 102, which is like a “gunguo” (boiling pan) with boiling water. Due to the rich thermal resources, people can dig a pit and create a food steamer near the “gunguo” – with the thermal vapour used to cook food, steam eggs and to bake sweet potatoes and peanuts.
Cherry Valley
Cherry Valley can be found to the west of Gaoligong Mountain and Longchuan River, in the nature reserves of Gaoligong Mountain. There is no frost all the year and there is abundant rainfall here, so wild cherries can grow, from which Cherry Valley got its name.
The hot spring is quite clear for its good water quality and the temperature is 42℃. The fall from hill gate to valley bottom is nearly 400 metres, which forms a typical landform of alpine and gorge region with Gaoligong Mountain. The red wild cherries and yellow larches constitute the obvious “four seasons in a mountain.”