Historic Buildings of Yunnan Observatory, Fenghuang Hill 凤凰山天文台近代建筑Fènghuáng Shān Tiānwéntái Jìndài Jiànzhù

About Historic Buildings of Yunnan Observatory, Fenghuang Hill

Three historic buildings on Fenghuang Hill in eastern Kunming, within what is now the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Two blue-brick blocks, with a variable-star dome and a solar spectrograph darkroom, date from 1939, when the astronomy institute of the Academia Sinica moved west during the war and set up an observing station here; a red-brick sunspot observatory with a metal dome followed in 1957. The observatory is still a working research centre.

How to get to Historic Buildings of Yunnan Observatory, Fenghuang Hill

About 10 km east of central Kunming, inside a working research campus; the public can visit only on occasional booked open days.

Nearby

• Green Lake Park 翠湖公园 under 10 km
  Kunming's favourite park, where wintering gulls wheel over willow-lined causeways
• 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
• Chengjiang Fossil Site & Fuxian Lake 澄江化石地与抚仙湖 50 km
  Half-billion-year-old fossils of early animals beside one of China's deepest lakes
• Stone Forest 石林 60 km
  A maze of limestone blades and towers you can lose yourself in

Also within 20 km: World Horti-Expo Garden 昆明世博园 (under 10 km), Dizang Temple Sutra Pillar 地藏寺经幢 (under 10 km), Zhenqing Taoist Temple 真庆观 (under 10 km), Golden Temple (Taihe Palace) 太和宫金殿 (under 10 km), Yunnan Wildlife Park 云南野生动物园 (under 10 km), Eastern and Western Pagodas 东西寺塔 (under 10 km).

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