page_title: Tengchong
section_title: Tourism
hierarchical_section_title: Tengchong / Tourism
caption_attribution_description: Heshun Tengchong
context_page_description: Tengchong is a county-level city of Baoshan City, western Yunnan province, People's Republic of China. It is well known for its volcanic activity. The city is named after the town of Tengchong which serves as its political center, previously known as Tengyue in Chinese. English language sources of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries use names such as Tingyueh, Teng Yueh, Momein, and Momien, these last two from the name for the place, one of the former Chinese Shan States, in the Shan language.
  It borders with Myanmar in the northwest for 151 km. By road, it is 650 km west of the provincial capital, Kunming, and 170 km westward from Baoshan's urban area.
  Tengchong marks the southwestern terminus of the Heihe–Tengchong Line, an imaginary line significant in geography that imaginary line that divides the area of China into two roughly equal parts.
context_section_description: For 2005, the city received 3.3 million tourists, with the majority of them visitors from within the province.
  Various traditional villages around the town have been developed as tourist attractions.  The town of Heshun features impressive architecture that was built with wealth from multi-generational trading families who sent children to Burma.  The village contains a small museum dedicated to Ai Siqi, the early communist philosopher. It is based in his former house where he lived for two years. It contains pictures, personal items and a statue of him in the yard of the compound.
  A large but seasonal fresh water wetland to the north attracts bird-watchers and nature-lovers, and tourists also visit a commercially developed volcanic park to the south. The recently constructed airport has brought an increase in domestic tourism. Routes to Sichuan and Beijing (over Kunming) have proved popular and the city predicts double the amount of annual visitors over the next five years. Several golf courses are in the planning stages and at least one is currently open for business, a 54-hole course located five kilometers outside of town. Several massive real estate projects are under construction aimed at selling second homes to domestic visitors. A little further from Tengchong you can visit "The Temple in the Sky" located high on a mountain which on perfect days will have a cloud cover located below it.
  The southern parts of the Gaoligong Mountain range is found at the eastern outskirts of Tengchong. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site as a part of the Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas, established in 2003.
caption: Heshun Town, Tengchong
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