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Chinese Hot Mineral Mud Bath

“The hot mineral mud bath is healthy and rejuvenating. After soaking in the hot spring, you will be refreshed. Your body will be light, your feet will be refreshed, and your spirit will be refreshed. You will sleep well every night and never forget your feelings.” A wonderful Hakka folk song has aroused the interest of many tourists. The yearning for hot mineral mud in Wuhuatang Lake.

The Hot Mud Villa is located in Zhuanshui Town, Wuhua County. It is one of the only two natural hot mud tourist resorts in the country. The hot spring water temperature here reaches 83℃-100℃, which is rare in the country and even the world. Thermal slime is actually the sticky silt at the bottom of hot springs. Test results from the Guangdong Testing Center of the Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources and the Guangdong Provincial Institute of Ecology, Environment and Soil show that Tanghu Hot Spring and hot mineral mud contain more than 60 kinds of trace elements necessary for the human body, and are useful in the treatment of rheumatism, rheumatoid, arthritis, and shoulder. It has a unique auxiliary effect on more than 60 diseases such as peritonitis, neuralgia and fracture sequelae, as well as on physical fitness, weight loss and beauty. It has the reputation of "the best mud in the world".

In 1999, Shenzhen West Lake Company invested and built tourist service facilities such as the Hakka Weilongwu Mud Palace, hot spring waterfalls, swimming pools and Russian wooden villas here, and developed fitness and health care projects such as medicinal baths and wine baths. More than 20 new, exotic and special crops such as snake melon, mouse melon and pocket pumpkin cultivated by Zhuhai Agricultural Science Center have been introduced and planted, forming a unique "highlight" of modern agricultural science and technology tourism. Now, the villa with elegant environment has become a tourist attraction integrating hot spring bath, mud bath, wine bath, physical therapy and rehabilitation, exercise and weight loss, health massage, sightseeing, entertainment and leisure vacation. The resort invited Vice President Yang from Liaoning Tanggangzi Physiotherapy Hospital to take charge of the slime physiotherapy business. The villa was rated as "a good place for leisure and vacation in Guangdong Province" and "a new highlight of holiday tourism in Guangdong Province" by the Provincial Tourism Bureau; and was designated as a "key scenic spot for poverty alleviation through tourism in Guangdong Province" by the provincial government. This year, the villa was rated as "Top Ten Hot Springs in Guangdong Province" and "Top Ten Health Tourism Attractions" by the Guangdong Provincial Tourism Bureau and "New Express".