[2025 Huaning Stay] Travel Guide for Elephant Trunk Hot Spring Resort (Updated Apr)

Big data, please push me to the sisters who soak in the hot springs. Yuxi Elephant Trunk Hill Resort Hot Spring Hotel Traveling with a friend, departing from Kunming on Friday, it took 2 hours by car to get there. After arriving, we checked in around 3 pm, which was just right. Stay: We booked a forest standard room package for over 400, including breakfast + forest hot spring + swimming pool. Parking is convenient, the buffet breakfast has a variety of options, and there are also private hot spring rooms and courtyard room types to choose from. If money allows, I would like to experience the courtyard room. Spring: After checking in, we went to soak in the hot springs. There are only sixteen pools, each with its own small pavilion or hut, great for sun protection. The water temperature is constantly at 41 degrees, and there are also cold pools, warm pools, and steam rooms. The pools on the mountain have a higher temperature, while the ones below are larger. You can bring some snacks and eat while soaking. There weren't many people when we went, so my friend and I had a pool to ourselves. We also learned some knowledge from the hotel staff: 1. Huaning Elephant Trunk Hot Spring is known as the "divine water," discovered during the Eastern Han Dynasty, nearly 2000 years ago. 2. It belongs to the warm water of low-temperature geothermal resources, containing 24 essential macro and trace elements for the human body. 3. It is a high-quality mineral spring suitable for both drinking and bathing! (Different from other hot springs) The next day we tried the local delicacies: 1. Kiln Street Restaurant, recommended dishes are fried pea flour, silver shredded pork, Huaning sausage, and wild vegetable bitter thorn flower. 2. Fish Village Small Intestine, in Jiangchuan, we ordered sauce braised fish, clear soup small intestine, and noodle ears, all very tasty. 3. Huaning's sweet soup is delicious, with bean flour dumplings, lala powder, ice powder, and rice cold shrimp paired with brown sugar water, it's definitely a child's favorite! 4. Crispy and sour bread are Huaning's specialty snacks.

The hot spring water is clear and is said to be drinkable and suitable for bathing, indicating high quality. The hotel accommodation is acceptable, but the surrounding commercial areas are vacant, so dining is only available within the hotel. Both dinner and breakfast are served at the hotel restaurant, with average taste. There are 16 forest hot spring pools, which are quite comfortable when there are few people. I prefer to soak in the morning when the hot spring water is freshly filled, clean, and reassuring. You can stroll around the hotel area, with a small creek and a small bridge, making it a nice post-meal walk. ~ Xiangbi Mountain Resort

After about a 1.5-hour drive from Kunming to Huaning, I stumbled upon an amazing hidden gem - a hot spring resort where you can happily soak in the hot springs with your kids, swim to your heart's content; they even have private baths indoors, allowing the whole family to comfortably lie in the water and gaze at the stars! Moreover, the water quality here is superb, it's a pure natural self-flowing hot spring, so hurry up and check it out~ 📍Location: Huaning Elephant Trunk Mountain Hot Spring It's only a 15-minute drive from Huaning County 🚗, and the entire hot spring resort is surrounded by lush forests, with a view full of verdant greenery and air so fresh, the environment is like a secluded paradise. 💦Play: ✔️You can happily bring your kids to soak in the hot springs and swim. There are a total of 16 pools on the hillside. All pools are filled with natural mineral water, and locals say the water is drinkable and suitable for bathing, which is a source of pride for Yuxi residents. We even saw babies as young as seven or eight months old playing here~ ✔️There are also more than ten bathhouses, each with its own private pool and small courtyard, spacious and comfortable. We stayed in a small villa with our children, and their joyful laughter while playing in the water was continuous without disturbing others. The best part is that the back of the house is a lush forest, where you can hear birds singing joyfully during the day 🎶, see lively squirrels jumping on the branches, and at night, gaze at the brilliant stars in the sky, which is incredibly romantic! ✨If you come with your family or friends, you can also play mahjong, enjoy a steam bath, and sip tea, which is truly comfortable. ✔️Behind the resort, you can barbecue and camp; you can also take your children to make handmade pottery. The master will help fire it and then send it home, giving the kids a piece of art they created themselves, an amazing experience~ ✔️Near Elephant Trunk Mountain Hot Spring, there's also a pottery village called Bowyao Village, where you can take your kids to experience pottery making and learn about the Huaning pottery process, which is very interesting. 🥕Eat: The rooms include a buffet, with a very rich variety of both Chinese and Western dishes, and the taste is quite good. It's recommended to try the local Huaning roasted bait block and thin bean flour, super delicious~ The restaurant is open all day for ordering, and if you don't want to go all the way to Huaning County to eat, you can try the local black medicine steamed meat, sausages, organic vegetables... 🏕Stay: In addition to the bathhouses, there are more than 60 rooms, and all guests can enjoy the hot springs. However, I recommend the Shenshui Residence we stayed in this time, with 2 rooms, a large living room, and front and back yards. In addition to our family of four, I also brought my grandmother and younger uncle, and it was quite spacious and comfortable. Families with multiple children can add extra beds like we did~ 🌿The water quality of Elephant Trunk Mountain Hot Spring is truly top-notch. We went for a soak at 10 am when they opened, and the sunlight sprinkled in the pools, which were free of any impurities, clean and transparent, truly deserving of the local name 'divine water'. For families who love to play in the water with their kids in the summer, I highly recommend it to you. It's at most a 2-hour drive from the main city of Kunming, and on the way back, you can also stop by Fuxian Lake for a while, simply perfect!

⭐️Huaning Elephant Trunk Hot Spring Resort is only an hour and a half drive from Kunming, and only 40 minutes from Yuxi. It’s really a real hot spring! You can drink and soak in it, and the water quality is great, so you don’t have to worry at all. ⭐️If you just want to soak in hot springs, I highly recommend Forest Hot Springs. You can bathe from 10 am to 11 pm. There are 16 pools. The water is always flowing, clean and hygienic! Children under 1.2 meters are free. ⭐️If you want to stay and bring a private bath, the price is around 600 to 700. Two people can take unlimited baths for any time and as many times as they want. It also includes buffet breakfast, forest hot spring tickets and swimming tickets! Rooms without private baths only cost over 300 yuan, and they also come with breakfast and hot spring swimming tickets, which is very suitable for visiting when there are not many people. ⭐️There is a restaurant in the villa where you can scan the QR code to order food, and there is also a campsite where you can order barbecue. Coffee and fruit tea are also available. ⭐️Children can play in the elephant fountain, and the non-powered playground has slides, swings, climbing, etc. These are all included in the accommodation. 🏡B&B: Huaning Elephant Trunk Hot Spring Tourism and Cultural Resort 📍Address: Elephant Trunk Hot Spring Resort, Yuxi City, Yuxi, Yunnan

⭐️ When looking for a place to stay, hot springs are definitely a super attractive option! Yunnan, this enchanting place, hides many heart-stirring hot spring resorts. ⭐️ Huaning Elephant Trunk Hot Spring, like a dazzling gem, shines on the land of Yunnan. The hot spring water here is crystal clear and rich in various minerals beneficial to the human body. Soaking in it, it feels like all the fatigue and stress slowly dissipate with the steam. The hot springs are surrounded by green trees and the fragrance of birds and flowers, perfectly integrated with nature, creating a super tranquil and peaceful atmosphere. Staying here, you can feel the gifts of nature every day, and fully enjoy the comfort and relaxation brought by the hot springs. ⭐️ There are also many activity venues such as badminton halls, tennis courts, basketball courts, swimming pools, KTV, camping sites, etc., to meet everyone's various needs. ⭐️ You can also get full board services, eating pure natural green vegetables grown on their own mountains, super healthy and delicious. ⭐️ Yunnan's hot spring residence is a beautiful encounter with nature, a deep healing of body and mind. Let us step into this world of hot springs together, start a different kind of residence life, and feel the infinite charm of the hot springs. 🏡 Homestay: Huaning Elephant Trunk Hot Spring Tourism and Culture Resort 📍 Address: Elephant Trunk Hot Spring Resort, Yuxi City, Yunnan

Yuxi Elephant Trunk Hill Hot Spring Resort | A great place for a hot spring soak in autumn and winter A very large resort, it has forest hot springs and indoor pools, as well as snacks available and the scenery is quite nice ✨There are mountains, water, and hot springs Take a dip, soak away the fatigue,, 📍Huaning Elephant Trunk Hot Spring Resort, Ningzhou Street, Huaning County, Yuxi City, Yunnan Province

Essential private hot springs around Kunming for the New Year Is there a activity every family will have during the New Year - soaking in hot springs anyway our family can't miss it every year we booked a villa private hot spring in advance Suitable for a family to stay overnight and soak slowly The public hot spring pool is super crowded, it feels like dumplings are being dropped, the private hot spring is particularly quiet and the air is very good Huaning Elephant Nose Hot Spring Resort is 2 hours drive from Kunming, recommend villa private hot spring There are so many people in the public hot spring pool that we didn't go to soak When walking at night, I saw the forest hot spring on the mountain. It should be okay when there are fewer people on non-holidays