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Golden Temple (Taihe Palace) 太和宫金殿Tàihé Gōng Jīndiàn
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Kunming, Yunnan
- Time needed
- 2–3 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Kunming
- Region
- Yunnan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Golden Temple (Taihe Palace)
A Taoist temple complex on Mingfeng Hill whose centrepiece is a hall cast entirely of copper, 6.7 metres high, rebuilt here in 1671 by the general Wu Sangui with more than 250 tonnes of copper after the original of 1602–1604 had been moved to Jizu Mountain. It is regarded as the largest and best-preserved all-copper hall in China. Walled courtyards with other Taoist halls surround it, and the wooded park holds a camellia garden of more than 1,200 varieties with an annual camellia show.
How to get to Golden Temple (Taihe Palace)
About 7 km north-east of central Kunming, beside the World Horti-Expo Garden, around half an hour by taxi or city bus.
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
Also within 20 km: Yunnan Wildlife Park 云南野生动物园 (under 10 km), World Horti-Expo Garden 昆明世博园 (under 10 km), Kunming Botanical Garden 昆明植物园 (under 10 km), Zhenqing Taoist Temple 真庆观 (under 10 km), Historic Buildings of Yunnan Observatory, Fenghuang Hill 凤凰山天文台近代建筑 (under 10 km), Dizang Temple Sutra Pillar 地藏寺经幢 (under 10 km).
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