The best Zhangjiajie hiking trails to enjoy stunning views with fun experience. Not only walking up & down in Zhangjiajie mountains, but also climbing in sitting dragon gorge, and rafting in mengdong river.
Welcome to Zhangjiajie! your private guide & driver will be waiting for you at Zhangjiajie airport & train station, then escorted you to hotel for rest.
After breakfast, meet your guide at hotel lobby, then heading to the south gate of Zhangjiajie national forest park. To visit Yellow Stone Village, you will walk up the stairs and it takes about 2 hours. Along the way, numerous fantastic scenes meet the hikers in quick succession. The summits fresh air can not only invigorates your lungs but also rejuvenates your skin. There are many view points like Five Fingers Peaks , Six Wonders Pavilion, Front Garden, Echo Wall, Remaining Piers of the Heavenly Bridge, Clouds Drifting Cave and so on. Later you will get down from the mountain by taking cable car.
Golden Whip Stream, a grand canyon, the lowest area in the park. It’s a nice place for walking, you can walk along the stream 7.5 km and taking about 2 hours, enjoy the mountain peaks which stands on two sides, and wild monkey playing on the trees.
Avatar mountain located in Yuanjiajie, a high mountain village. Take an mountain elevator which is built on the cliff side, to see the real hallelujah mountain, walking in the enlarged bonsai garden.
Have a simple lunch, then heading to Tianzi mountain by shuttle bus. It’s the highest area among the whole park, you will see so many peaks standing just like soldiers in the deep valley. later you will walk down the stairs from the mountain, to the bottom Ten-miles Gallery. It takes about 2 hours hiking down, but you will enjoy the most beautiful views.
After breakfast, our guide and driver will take you to Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge. This is the world’s longest and tallest glass-bottomed bridge, it measures 430 meters in length and 6 meters in width, about 300 meters above the ground. When you are walking on the bridge, just like you are walking on clouds, you can enjoy the views which surrounded by mountains. And it’s perfect to get down to grand canyon if you like hiking, walking along the stream, enjoy lush plants and take a boat in the lake.
Yellow Dragon Cave, It is a karst cave, with peculiar limestone formations, underground streams, Fantastic shapes of stalagmites. There are underground rivers, waterfalls, large halls and thousands of stalagmites, columns. And It’s the most beautiful karst cave in the world.
After breakfast, you will be heading to Sitting Dragon Gorge about 1.5 hours driving. Walking and climbing here is fun and challengeable! The Gorge gained a good reputation – “the first peculiar gorge in south eastern China”. Because of its original ecological environment, fresh air and mysterious Tujia customs, also called “fairyland on earth”, “ideal world”.
After finished, have a lunch at local farmer restaurant, then transfer to Mengdong River for rafting. It’s 17 kilometers in length from upper stream to the end point, taking 2.5 hours. Going through waves passing “Triangular Rock”, “Thirteen Waves”, “Chicken House Gate”, “Yanwang Beach”, “Luoshui Pond”, “Earth waterfall”, “Mengsi Valley”, etc.
Tianmen Mountain is known by the Heaven’s Gate hole, the highest mountain in Zhangjiajie.
You will be getting up by taking the cable car, the world’s longest mountain cable way 7.5km to the mountain top, then you can enjoy the full view of Zhangjiajie city. And walking along the plank road, to visit ancient temple, learn about its ancient story, to see the real heaven’s gate hole. An activity launched here that airplane flying through this hole in 1999, and recent years they launched an adventurous activity called proximity sky-flying in this mountain.
After getting down from the mountain, your Zhangjiajie tour is finished. You can drink a cup of coffee somewhere, then our guide and driver will escort you to Zhangjiajie airport for departing.