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Tomb of Sayyid Ajjal Shams al-Din 赛典赤·赡思丁墓Sàidiǎnchì Shànsīdīng Mù
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 Tomb of Sayyid Ajjal Shams al-Din
The tomb of Sayyid Ajjal Shams al-Din Omar (1211–1279), a Muslim official from Bukhara whom Kublai Khan sent to Yunnan in 1274 as the Yuan dynasty's first provincial governor; he founded a new city on the site of modern Kunming, where he had a Confucian temple, a Buddhist temple and mosques built, and the admiral Zheng He was descended from him. The rectangular stone tomb, restored and walled in 1985, lies on Ma'er Hill in the northern outskirts, while a stone cenotaph inscribed in Chinese and Mongolian stands in the city's Wujing area.
How to get to Tomb of Sayyid Ajjal Shams al-Din
Beside a county road near Majia'an village, about 14 km north of central Kunming; a taxi is the easiest way there.
Nearby
- Green Lake Park 翠湖公园 10 km
Kunming's favourite park, where wintering gulls wheel over willow-lined causeways - Western Hills & Dragon Gate 西山龙门 30 km
Taoist grottoes and a single-file ledge path cut into a cliff high above Dianchi Lake
Also within 20 km: Kunming Botanical Garden 昆明植物园 (under 10 km), Yunnan Wildlife Park 云南野生动物园 (under 10 km), Golden Temple (Taihe Palace) 太和宫金殿 (under 10 km), World Horti-Expo Garden 昆明世博园 (under 10 km), Huize Hall, Yunnan University 会泽院 (10 km), Former Site of National Southwest Associated University 国立西南联合大学旧址 (10 km).
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