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Wenquan Cliff Inscriptions, Anning 温泉摩崖石刻群Wēnquán Móyá Shíkè Qún
National heritage site · Kunming, Yunnan
- Time needed
- 1 hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Kunming
- Region
- Yunnan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Wenquan Cliff Inscriptions, Anning
A 200-metre stretch of cliff above the Tanglang River at Anning's hot-spring town of Wenquan, carved with more than 160 inscriptions, mostly poems and descriptions of the springs by Ming and Qing visitors. The earliest, 'Listening to the Spring', was written by He Mengchun, who became the Ming governor of Yunnan in 1521. The carvings run in three groups from the 'Nine-Bend Dragon's Nest' to the spring called the 'Finest Hot Spring under Heaven'.
How to get to Wenquan Cliff Inscriptions, Anning
In Wenquan, about 45 km west of Kunming, roughly an hour by road, close to Caoxi Temple.
Nearby
- Western Hills & Dragon Gate 西山龙门 20 km
Taoist grottoes and a single-file ledge path cut into a cliff high above Dianchi Lake - Green Lake Park 翠湖公园 30 km
Kunming's favourite park, where wintering gulls wheel over willow-lined causeways
Also within 20 km: Caoxi Temple, Anning 曹溪寺 (under 10 km), Anning Confucian Temple 安宁文庙 (under 10 km), Yulong Bay 玉龙湾 (10 km), Shilongba Hydropower Station 石龙坝水电站 (10 km), Qinglong Gorge, Anning 青龙峡 (10 km).
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