About this place

Golden Temple Park (Jindian gongyuan) includes two of Kunming’s most notable temples. Taihe Temple is Yunnan’s most active and important Taoist temple. The Golden Temple, from the Ming Dynasty, also Taoist is made almost entirely of bronze, weighing 280 tons, and is the heaviest and best preserved of China’s four largest bronze temples.

How to get there:  Golden Temple Park is located on Phoenix Song Mountain, 8 km northeast of Kunming, near the World Horticultural Exposition Gardens.  A 15 RMB cable car will take you to the Golden Temple from the Expo Gardens.  Bus 10 will take you there from Yuantong Temple.  A taxi from the center of town will cost 20 - 30 RMB.

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