Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan Scenic Area

Welcome to Zhangjiajie! Upon arrival, be greeted by our tour guide in the airport or train station who is holding a sign on which says your name. A comfortable vehicle (non-smoking) with experienced driver will transfer you directly to your hotel inWulingyuan Scenic Area. Your guide will help you check in. The rest of today is on your own to explore this beautiful city.

Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan Scenic Area

After breakfast, start your full-day Zhangjiajie National Forest Park Adventure. On this day, you will have a tour to Zhangjiajie National Forest Park. First take Tianzishan cable car to enjoy the Tianzi Mountain where you can have a stunning view of the peaks rising one after another. Atop of the mountain offers a full extent of the whole scenic area, which is magnificent and spectacular. Next, take a sightseeing bus to Yuanjiajie Area. This scenic area is world famous as the mountains here inspired the floating mountains in the Hollywood movie Avatar. The peaks in Yuanjiajie are nearly at the same height, which makes it a mountain platform great for enjoying sweeping vistas. Then you will have a stop at Golden Whip Stream, It is famous for its pristine water, its verdant mountains, its steep cliffs and its serene valley. After the exciting tour, you'll be escorted back to your hotel. Optional activity in the evening: Zhangjiajie Charming Western Hunan Grand Show (1.5 Hours)

Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan Scenic Area

After breakfast, be ready for today's exciting adventures. You'll first drive about 30km to visit Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon. You will start from the Tourist Center to Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge to walk on the highest and longest glass bridge in the world. After that, appreciate the charming sightseeing of running waters, flying waterfalls, lush vegetation, etc. (Please note: In Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon, you can choose to only experience the thrilling glass bridge or fully explore glass bridge as well as hiking and boating in the Grand Canyon.) Next, you’ll drive about 20km to see the natural wonder in the Yellow Dragon Cave, also known as Huanglong Cave. It is a underground-lost palace which is praised as the most beautiful cave in the world by UNESCO Experts, with an area of 100,000 square meters, a length of 7.6 kilometers, a height of 140 meters. There are two underground rivers, four waterfalls, 13 caverns and 10,000 stalagmites and stalactites is this huge limestone cave.

Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park

After breakfast, your guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel. On this day, you’ll first take a trip to Tianmen Mountain. Referred to as the “Soul of culture and spirit of Zhangjiajie”, Tianmen Mountain, standing 1,500 meters above sea level, boasts miraculous and unique geographic landform, unparalleled natural landscape, profound cultural connotations. Experience the longest cableway in Asia with a length of 7200 meters, take photos of Avenue toward Heaven with 99 turns from cable car. On the top of Tianmen Mountain, enjoy the Cliff-Hanging Walkway; hold your breath and experience the thrilling Glass Sky Walk. Then, visit the natural mountain-penetrating Karst cave - Tianmen Cave. After the tour get back to your hotel. Optional activity: A Fox Fairy of Tianmen Mountain is known as the world’s first real-scene musical drama with the high mountains and deep valleys as the stage background. A heart-wrenching love story is presented on this stage.

Mengdong River Scenic Resort

After breakfast, drive about 2.5 hours head to Mengdong River Rafting pier, after get prepared you will start your exciting rafting. The whole floating distance of Mengdong River is about 17 kilometers. While enjoy the exciting rafting, you will go downwards along the river with a small boat, and passing through a valley. when rafting, one may feel as if they were jumping to the air from the ground, or dropping to a deep valley from the sky, or galloping on horse backs, or riding clouds and mist. After lunch you will have a tour in Furong Ancient Town, Furong ancient town consists of a group of Tujia and Miao and Han people, Tujia people account for more than 80% of the total population. Tujia Minority people live here more than 2000 years,so Furong Town not only has the beautiful natural landscape, but also is a perfect place to explore the Tujia culture, more than three hundred relics collected in Tujia Diaojiaolou(vernacular pillar-supported dwellings).

Mengdong River Scenic Resort

After breakfast, the guide and driver will pick you up in the hotel, and start your today’s adventure tour, the first place you will visit is the dragon sitting gorge, has a special type of visiting line, that is, all the lines are built in the deep valley, taking full advantage of steep mountains, just like the sculpture carved by nature carefully looking from a distance. So, as you can imagine, walking along this kind of visiting line, you cannot go through all the cliffs solely relying on your hands and feet. Meanwhile, strong will and appreciation of the nature are also essential for climbing the Gorge. Only when you have an exploration by yourself someday, can you discover how it is like on earth. After lunch, you will have another tour to Red Stone Forest National Geological Park. The stone forest covers an area of 20 square kilometers in a totally original ecological status. The tall rocks in various shapes can be seen throughout scenic spot.

Fenghuang Ancient City Museum

After breakfast, drive half hour to Aizhai Bridge which is a suspension bridge was built as part of an expressway in Hunan province. The bridge is famous for the spectacular view by spanning and across the mountain. On March 8th, 2018, “Aizhai cliff plank road” was officially opened, it has a total length of 1.5 kilometers and the vertical drop is 500 meters and including 100 meters of glass path. When you explore Aizhai cliff plank, you can not only enjoy the most exciting, and most fantastic scenery in the deep Wuling Mountains and valleys, but also experience the visual stimuli brought by the glass devil path. After lunch then drive to the Southern Great Wall, this wall was built in 1554 in Ming Dynasty and completed in 1622. The rulers of the Ming Dynasty built it for the purpose of defending the kingdom against the Miao people in the south. Next drive to Fenghuang Ancient Town, the night view of Fenghuang is fabulous, attracted thousands of tourists all over the word.

Fenghuang Ancient City Museum

Today, have a nice tour in Fenghuang Ancient Town.Fenghuang (phoenix) ancient city, the national famous historical and cultural city, praised by New Zealand famous writer Louis alley as the most beautiful city in China. Legend has it that: Ancient India bird "Phoenix" collected scented woods and burned itself when reached the age of five hundred years. Resurrect from the ember, no more death. Chinese called the bird: Fenghuang, a holy legendary animal. In the town dozens of allays are paved with stones that run between the wooden houses built by the Tuo River. Chinese Miao people have stepped on the rock road generations after generations. Highlights of your today's tour will be Phoenix River rafting, The Former Residence of Shen Congwen, and the Ancient Town Museum etc. In the afternoon, drive back to Zhangjiajie city and escort you to airport or train station to your next destination or back home.