Tengchong. - Gonzalo Pavillard
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The Tengchong region is known by his more than 70 volcanoes and a similar number of warm spa. The city is very small, at six long hours in bus from Baoshan and easily explorable in only one day, to 2km to the Southwest this the Temple Laifeng and along with him the Forest Reservation Fengshan. In the same city he is worth while visiting the Frontier Bazaar.
The volcanoes and the thermal waters are the principal attraction. To 10km of the city of Tengchong is the Volcano Dayingshan, 10km more to the north there is a volcanoes group in the mountains Kong, close to the Mazhan people. Mar de Calor is the name of the thermal waters better known about the region, to 12km to the Southwest. Along with the river of boiling and sulphurous water there are dozens of children geisers and an outdoor pool where to give him a very healthy warm bath in his waters rich in minerals.
Temple Yunfeng. To 50km to the north of Tengchong there is the Mount Yunfeng, which in his top has a beautiful temple taoísta with spectacular conference of the region and his volcanoes. To come so far is not easy and the only solution is to take a bus up to Gudong and from there traveling or doing hitchhiking more of 10km that there is up to the foot of the mountain. In the way up to the top there are several temples and places where to spend the night. In the temple of the top there are also beds where to happen the night, but not always they are available. The Taoism in China different from the academic Taoism to which we are accustomed in Occident, is a tailor's drawer where the most unlike esoteric traditions and popular beliefs fit, in addition to an important influence of the Buddhism and the confucianism. The temple Yunfeng is a good example of this iconographic cocktail, with pavilions dedicated to Avalotikesvara, to the Supreme Teacher LaoTze, and to the Emperor of Jade, in addition to several altars that they commemorate to some local demon. Also the temple is a place of peregrination to which there come the different minority ethnic groups of the region.
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