Hot Springs

Chuzhou: Egret Island Hot Spring Resort

Updated: 2011-01-13 15:20

Egret Island Hot Spring Park is inside the Egret Island Eco-Tourism Area located on eight hectares of land. It is surrounded by a national AAAA-rated scenic spot and relies on the Egret Island International Eco-tourism Resort, which integrates leisure holidays and sightseeing. From physical exploration and geological analysis, the depth of the aquifer generated by terrestrial heat is calculated.

The hot springs are 35 degrees Celsius and are drawn from a 350-meter fracture zone. The spring water is rich in more than 35 kinds of active elements, ion components and radioactive radon, and is believed by man to be helpful in the treatment of diseases. With a high mineral content, mild temperature and ample reserves, the hot springs also are a treat for visitors for the beautiful green landscape surrounding the attraction.

Egret Island Hot Spring Park includes three areas: Luck Square, Tang Charm and Japanese Glamour. The park features a classical Chinese garden and Japanese natural landscaping, and has facilities with a motif of Bali-style glamour.

The hot spring park has more than 50 hot spring pools, including those that focus on traditional Chinese medicine, health preservation, beauty care, Dead Sea-style water therapy, sand therapy, Korean-style sweat steam pools, fish therapy, slab baths, Finnish baths, swimming facilities and spas.

The open-air hot spring in the mountainous pinewood can accommodate more than 3,000 guests at a time. Because the forest coverage is 93.29 percent, the woods and pools create a pinewood spa culture.

Characteristics of the hot spring pools:

Spas: A series of health preservation pools including pine needle pools, a turpentine pool, pine bark pool and pine pollen pool. Each kind of pool has its unique health preservation claims for unique therapeutic effects to ease tense nerves and relax the body.

Dead Sea floating baths: The bath water is prepared with salts from 400 meters below sea level from the Middle East’s Dead Sea. General detoxification with the mineral salts from the Dead Sea are said to eliminate the toxins of intercellular substances, promote blood and lymphatic circulation, inspire and regenerate the functional cells of the body and soothe the senses.

Dead Sea pelotherapy: Enriched mineral components can clean skin, remove dead skin cells and activate new cell growth, as well as eliminate toxins in the body and promote mineral equilibrium, thus improving skin problems such as thick pores and acne.

Fish therapy: In the style of Turkish fish therapy, thousands of Turkish fish tickles your skin as they nibble away at dead cells to clean and whiten skin.

Slab baths: Specially made granite slabs conduct heat through hot spring water to distribute heat evenly. Lying or sitting on the slabs is said to treat rheumatic, lumbar and leg pain, stomach diseases and other ailments.

In addition to soaking in the resort’s hot springs, guests can also receive professional massages, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) therapy and Southeast Asian-style spa treatments at the resort’s lounge and massage center.

(chinadaily.com.cn)