Full-Day Private Tour of Zhangjiajie(Wulingyuan) National Forest Park
Description
Enjoy a full-day tour of Zhangjiajie(Wulingyuan) National Forest Park. Explore Zhangjiajie's other-worldly landscape with your private guide. Visit mountain areas and experience the beauty of the park's 243 mist-shrouded pillars, covered in sub-tropical rainforest. Highlights: 1.Take in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park's breathtaking scenery 2.Marvel at Zhangjiajie's spectacular mist-shrouded forested rock-formations 3.Enjoy perfect panoramic views from atop Tianzi Mountain 4.Encounter an amazingly wide variety of plant and wildlife
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Itinerary
With magnificent mountain ranges, deep valleys, mysterious caves, lush vegetation, cascading waterfalls and mist-shrouded stone pillars, Hunan's Zhangjiajie National Forest Park is a wonderland of natural beauty. On this full-day tour your guide will meet you at 9:00am of your hotel lobby in Zhangjiajie city central or Wulingyuan hotel then we visit different mountain areas such as Tianzi Mountian, where the world's longest cable car ride carries you to the mountain's peak, and the unique platform-shaped Yuanjiajie Mountain. There are more than 500 species of wildlife and vegetation in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, including rare monkeys, gingko trees and thousands of colorful birds. The most notable geographic features of the park are its hundreds of towering sandstone pillars. Fans of Hollywood blockbusters will instantly recognize the stunning landscape as the inspiration for the scenery of Pandora in James Cameron’s hit movie Avatar.
Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area , lying to the north of Zhangjiajie City, is a charming tourist attraction. It is one of the 40 famous scenic spots in China. It is said to be 'The ampliative miniascape and the contractible fairyland' and was admitted to the 'World Heritage List' in 1992. Wulingyuan Scenic Area consists of four parts- Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, Suoxi Valley Nature Reserve, Tianzi Mountain Nature Reserve and the newly added Yangjiajie Scenic Area. Today your tour will visit the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park and Tianzi Mountain Nature Reserve area.
When you purchase the main park entrance tickets and you will take a shuttle bus(20 mins driving) to the Tianzi mountain cable station and need to walk up the 200 steps to reach the station.
After the 20 mins cable car ride, you will reach the top of the Tianzi mountain then we will take a shuttle bus again(5 mins driving) to the Tianzi Mountain central area which is provides stunning views of peaks, which rise one after another. It is known as 'the Monarch of the Peak Forest'. At the top of the mountain, visitors can see the full extent of the Wulingyuan Scenic Area. Beautiful scenes of the mountain greet visitors in different seasons. There are four wonders: the Sea of Clouds, the Radiance of the Moonlight, Rays of Sunshine and the Snow in winter.
It is the highlighted scenic spots in Yangjiajie. One plateform and three gates must pb passed before reaching the top of the stockaded village. There are three peaks of the top of the village, where scenery far and near can be seen. This stockaded village is in a strategic position that is easy to defend and difficult to conquer, and has been the place where bandits have been entrenched.
Located in Yangjiajie Scenic Area, Zhangjiajie Tianbofu Scenic Reserve is both a magnificent and charming scenic reserve with many steep and angular cliffs. The fantastic scenes are hidden among the stone mountains and cliffs. Taking a visit here by walking on the stone path along the steep cliffs is both an exciting and adventurous experience.
After the Yuanjiajie(Avatar mountain), you will take a shuttle(15 mins driving) head to the Bailong Elevator. Bailong Elevator is very magnificent. The total height of it is 335 meters (1099 feet), of which the running height is 326 meters (1069 feet). 154 meters (505 feet) of the total height is in the mountain wells and the rest of 172 meters (564 feet) was composed of steel derrick and other components. The Elevator includes three exposure sightseeing elevators running parallelly. Each elevator can take 50 passengers every time and the speed is 3 m / s (the speed has been accelerated to 5m / s since 2013). If the three elevators run simultaneously, the amount of one-way passengers will reach 4,000 per hour.
Golden Whip Stream (Jinbian Stream) is famous for its pristine water, its verdant mountains, its steep cliffs and its serene valley. As a veritable “paradise” for plants, its pathways are adorned by an abundance of flowers, trees, and grasses. And it is also a kingdom of animals. Golden Whip Stream is named after Golden Whip Crag, its landmark spot, and runs from Laomo Bay to Shui Rao Si Men(water-surrounded gates). You will hiking around one hour along the Golden Whip Stream then take a shuttle go out of the park and back to the hotel.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
We pick up from any hotel in Zhangjiajie/Wulingyuan
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Important Information
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- A current valid passport is required on the day of travel
Reviews(12)
Flora was an amazing guide, very attentive, helpful and went out of the way several times for us.. we managed to even see a lesser known tourist spot at Zhangjiaji forest park! We had a great time.
The weather for this tour was not cooperating with us. It was rainy and had such a heavy fog that we could not see much of anything! Our guide tried so hard to get us good views though. She even brought us to a secret place that zero tourists were to try to see something and it ended up working out! Just as we were giving up hope the clouds started to lift for just a few mins. When we did have views, our guide Flora took AMAZING photos and videos of us. This tour was not rushed at all. She helped us order lunch and coffee when we got hungry. The only thing is this tour is designed to start at the east gate. Our hotel was located at the west gate so if you book this tour, make sure you stay near the east gate. We did have to pay an additional small fee because of that. All in all we really enjoyed our day and our experience with our guide.
Chris has been a kind tour guide, making the visit really enjoyable. He was nice to help us get the train tickets for the following day, as well as purchasing the ones for the Fairy Fox show. Really recommended.
The forest was amazing. Our tour guide was in the hotel lobby 1 hour before, and shared the facts about the Forest. Took us to places were we could have better view and take photos. He was really great. The forest was out of this world! Just wow
Booked this tour as it has a very good itinerary. Communication from the tour operator was very clear and my tour guide Roseanna was lovely. She picked me up at my hotel and helped me with navigating all the different busses we needed to get on. She suggested some additional places to visit and helped me to arrange all tickets. If you just have one day in the park, I highly recommend to book a tour, it’s easy to get lost and loose a lot if time trying to find the right bus. With a guide it’s super quick and you will be able to see a lot more. Queues can be long at Bailong and for me this was the least interesting I have seem on the trip, 10sec elevator ride wasn’t the highlight of the day, but the additional trip to the fields in the sky was more then worth it. I was lucky to have no rain and no clouds, so could see the fields clearly. I highly recommend. Even if Golden Whip stream is in the itinerary, I only got to see the end of it and did not walk along it as there was no time. Overall great experience, scenery is as mysterious as all the online pictures.
Eric was amazing! He picked me up at my hotel and lead me on a journey I shall never forget! Zhangjiajie is beyond anything I have ever seen or experienced before. It's beyond words; a place where heaven and earth converge, a poetry of words and I'm extremely grateful that Eric was the one to guide me on the discovery of beautiful Zhangjiajie. He is very knowledgeable, Kind and a grand host of the park. Eric is truly amazing. At the end of my perfect experience he became a friend! Thank you so much!
I had this tour on January 8th, 2020. During the middle of the winter, where Zhangjiajie is liable to have foggy rainy weather - which does not lend itself well to the beautiful photos many people post of summer time in the park. With that being said, I had a truly wonderful time. My guide spoke good English for a non-native speaker. I could hold a conversation with him and he was very knowledgable about details of the park (ie: when it opened, types of rocks within the formations, info on the ethnic minorities in the park, etc). He was very kind and did his best to keep me dry despite me having a raincoat. He also had a good eye for where to take photos and how to take them! The tour was not walking intensive, utilizing the intrapark bus service often. This was simultaneously nice and disappointing for a young guy like me who likes to hike but was also two weeks into a cross China trek. After the tour he showed me where to eat, as I had worked up an appetite. And after eating he escorted me to my hotel via a taxi which was paid for by him. Overall, I highly recommend this tour. Get up early and get to the park especially during busy seasons. I think two people plus the guide is an ideal number of people ($115 each). Keep in mind this does NOT include the glass bridge which, frankly, I thought was overrated.
Our guide, Shirley, was awesome taking us to all the beautiful sights in the park. It was drizzling early in the morning and she kindly adjusted the itinerary to ensure we maximized the day's visit around the park starting off with a trek at to the Golden Whip Stream before heading out to the elevator and Avatar Mountains viewing area. Beautiful!
We had only one full day in Zhangjiajie and we did not want to miss the main spots of the park. Thanks to Eric, we could see everything we dreamed of, it was breathtaking. Without him, you cannot do it all in one day, it is a real advantage and he was an excellent guide! Very good english!
We only had a day to visit the national park, and in my opinion, it was just enough. IWe hired this company via getyourguide, and we absolutely don1t regret. We confirmed the pickup time the day before, and the guide was puntcually meeting us. We were taken in a private car all the way to the park. It's absolutely necessary to have a guide, the park is huge and you can get easily lost, take the wrong bus, and miss out all the important attractions if you don't know exactly where you're going. Also, the guide knows different ways through the park, less crowded and equally beautiful areas, where large groups don't go. I highly recommend this service, since the guide was a nice man, good english, took us to amazing places and was a really nice company. I would do it again for sure.
