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Travel: Happy to be in hot water after a long winter

Soaking yourself in warm water is a wonderful thing to do when you've had enough of the freezing winter weather. It is said that as early as 1,600 years ago, people were using the hot springs in the north of Chongqing, a city by the Yangtze River in Southwest China. The city boasts one of the oldest hot springs in the world, which is more than 200 years older than Japan's famous Arima Onsen hot springs.