National Day Zhangjiajie Travel Guide / Zhangjiajie Golden Week
National Day Zhangjiajie travel guide National Day Golden Week travel, from October 1st to October 8th, an 8-day holiday. How to arrange a Zhangjiajie trip? What precautions should be taken for Zhangjiajie travel during the Golden Week? How to have a more affordable and enjoyable trip? Now let me answer these one by one. 1. Comparison of group tours and self-guided tours in Zhangjiajie. Joining a tour group can save you a lot of trouble, such as food, accommodation, and transportation, but after saving trouble, there are still many…
Zhangjiajie Travel Guide for the National Day Holiday
For the National Day Golden Week holiday, with an 8-day break from October 1 to October 8, how should you plan a Zhangjiajie trip? What should you pay attention to when traveling to Zhangjiajie during Golden Week? How can you have a more affordable and enjoyable trip? Now let me answer these questions one by one.
1. Comparison between group tours and independent travel in Zhangjiajie
Joining a tour group can save you a lot of trouble, such as meals, accommodation, and transportation, but after saving trouble, many restrictions await you! Relatively speaking, after joining a group, many optional paid items and mandatory shopping stops are unavoidable, and if guests do not contribute, the guide may not even give you a pleasant look.
Compared with other scenic areas across the country, Zhangjiajie has more advantages for independent travel. That is because due to time constraints, tour groups absolutely cannot visit Zhangjiajie's most attractive sights, such as Tianbo Mansion in Yangjiajie, Wulong Village, the One-Step-Difficult Path at Daguantai, Immortal Bridge, Tianzi Seat, the Divine Soldiers Gathering at Laowuchang, the Sky Garden, and other highlight attractions. If you do not believe it, can those friends who joined tour groups recall ever visiting these places?
2. Notes for traveling to Zhangjiajie during the National Day Golden Week
1. When choosing travel dates, please try to avoid October 1, 2, 3, and 4. Not only are travel costs higher, but there are also too many visitors in the scenic area, which will greatly reduce your enthusiasm for the trip. However, some tourists, due to time restrictions, have no choice but to visit Zhangjiajie during the first four days of the holiday. In that case, they must prepare in advance and contact a travel agency or guide so that rooms can be booked ahead of time and the itinerary can be properly arranged.
2. Zhangjiajie's main classic scenic areas are: Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, Golden Whip Stream Scenic Area, Tianzi Mountain Scenic Area, Yuanjiajie Scenic Area, and Suoxiyu Area. Two to three days of sightseeing is enough. If you travel for too long, it may instead cause visual fatigue, physical exhaustion, and wasted money. However, if it is not during Golden Week, those who are interested can spend a few more days touring, which is also a good way to relax and vacation. In addition, because of the many tourists when traveling to Zhangjiajie during the National Day holiday, your expected travel time may exceed the plan, so it is better to arrange the travel route as relaxed as possible.
3. Before coming to Zhangjiajie, please confirm your return time in advance and have your host book return tickets in advance, so as not to miss your train, waste time, or delay matters.
4. If you are traveling by self-driving car, please beware of strangers along the way to Zhangjiajie who offer a "free ride," to avoid being deceived by illegal tourism operators. When away from home, be careful. Remember that pie will not fall from the sky, and traps can appear on the road at any time. If you think the travel costs, hotel costs, and so on quoted by a passerby are cheaper and can save you some money, then you are wrong. The time to pay has not come yet!
5. If you are a tourist coming to Zhangjiajie by train, please beware of those soliciting tourists on the train wearing railway uniforms. Those people also cheat customers without blinking.
6. Because Zhangjiajie is located in a mountainous area, the weather changes unusually, and sometimes it may rain temporarily. The temperature difference between day and night in the scenic area is 5 degrees Celsius. Please bring rain gear and clothing.
7. Zhangjiajie is mainly known for mountain scenery, and sightseeing involves a lot of walking. Please prepare clothing suitable for walking and flat shoes for hiking.
8. When enjoying the scenery, be sure to pay attention: do not look at the scenery while walking, and do not walk while looking at the scenery. Be sure to pay attention to safety.
9. Zhangjiajie is a top-level forest fire prevention unit, so smoking, picking branches or flowers, and littering fruit peels and paper scraps are strictly prohibited in the scenic area.
10. Please properly keep your money and valuables. When staying at a hotel, try to leave them in storage. Before sleeping, check whether the doors and windows are closed to avoid theft. At night, no matter who knocks on the door (including people claiming to be from the "police station, public security bureau, hotel service staff, or hotel leisure center calling to offer low-price health massage services"), do not open the door easily. Be sure to first call the hotel front desk to verify the truth, or call your guide before opening the door, to prevent extortion or robbery at night.
11. When sightseeing in the scenic area, everyone must pay attention to safety, especially at dangerously located viewing platforms. For example, when visiting Tianzi Mountain, getting on and off cable cars, and lining up to enter ticket stations, please do not crowd. Everything should be orderly, and follow the arrangements of leaders, guides, and staff.
12. Remind all guests to be cautious when spending on shopping and entertainment activities, and you may ask the guide for help.
13. If you fall behind the group, please promptly contact your guide or person in charge by mobile phone.
3. Recommended Zhangjiajie Golden Week travel routes:
Compact Two-Day Tour:
D1: Enter the mountains from the Forest Park. In the morning, visit the boutique Golden Whip Stream sightseeing route known as the "Great Oxygen Bar" (an outdoor filming location for Journey to the West): along the way are Mother and Child Peak, Pig Bajie Carrying His Wife, Golden Whip Rock, Divine Eagle Protecting the Whip, Master and Disciples Seeking Scriptures, Splitting the Mountain to Save the Mother, Candle Peak, Longevity Spring, Wenxing Rock, Two Turtles Exploring the Stream, Purple Grass Pool, Meeting After a Thousand Miles, Water Surrounding Four Gates, Zhang Liang's Tomb, and more. In the afternoon, visit the core scenic area of Wulingyuan—Yuanjiajie: No. 1 Bridge Under Heaven, China-Korea Friendship Pavilion, Five Women Going to Battle, Heart-Linking Bridge, Nine Heavens Mysterious Ladder, Worshipping Immortals Platform, Soul-Enchanting Platform, Back Garden, Wulong Village (an outdoor filming location for Suppressing Bandits in Wulong Mountain), Golden Rooster Announcing Dawn, Three Ghost Gate Passes, Yang Family Female Warriors, Echo Wall, Tianbo Mansion, and more. Overnight in the scenic area.
D2: Tianzi Mountain, He Long Park (China's largest bronze statue), Fairy Scattering Flowers, Jade Brush Peak, Yunqing Rock, Stone Boat Going to Sea, Painting Immortal Enraptured Picture, Tianzi Viewing Platform, Heavenly Platform. In the afternoon, visit Suoxiyu Nature Reserve: Ten-Mile Gallery, Herb-Collecting Old Man, Three Sisters Peak, Family Portrait, Longevity Star Seeing Off Guests, and more. Exit the mountains from the Wulingyuan main entrance and return to the city for accommodation.
Best Three-Day Tour
D1: Enter the mountains from the Forest Park. In the morning, visit the boutique Golden Whip Stream sightseeing route known as the "Great Oxygen Bar" (an outdoor filming location for Journey to the West): along the way are Mother and Child Peak, Pig Bajie Carrying His Wife, Golden Whip Rock, Divine Eagle Protecting the Whip, Master and Disciples Seeking Scriptures, Splitting the Mountain to Save the Mother, Candle Peak, Longevity Spring, Wenxing Rock, Two Turtles Exploring the Stream, Purple Grass Pool, Meeting After a Thousand Miles, Water Surrounding Four Gates, Zhang Liang's Tomb, and more. In the afternoon, visit the core scenic area of Wulingyuan—Yuanjiajie: No. 1 Bridge Under Heaven, China-Korea Friendship Pavilion, Five Women Going to Battle, Heart-Linking Bridge, Nine Heavens Mysterious Ladder, Worshipping Immortals Platform, Soul-Enchanting Platform, Back Garden, and more. Overnight at a guesthouse in the scenic area.
D2: After breakfast, visit one of the boutique sightseeing routes of Tianzi Mountain Scenic Area, known as the "King of Peak Forests": Daguantai, Immortal Bridge, Tianzi Seat, One-Step-Difficult Path, Divine Chicken Pecking Food. After lunch, visit the beautiful, majestic, and exciting Yangjiajie: Wulong Village (an outdoor filming location for Suppressing Bandits in Wulong Mountain), Golden Rooster Announcing Dawn, Three Ghost Gate Passes, Yang Family Female Warriors, Echo Wall, Tianbo Mansion, Fifth Son Worshipping Buddha, One Step to Heaven, Sky Corridor, and more. Overnight at a guesthouse in the scenic area.
D3: After breakfast, visit Tianzi Mountain Nature Reserve: the mysterious and magical Shentang Bay, Pointing General Platform (the majestic scene of King Tianzi reviewing troops), Tianzi Mountain, He Long Park (China's largest bronze statue), Fairy Scattering Flowers, Jade Brush Peak, Yunqing Rock, Stone Boat Going to Sea, Painting Immortal Enraptured Picture, Tianzi Viewing Platform, Heavenly Platform. In the afternoon, visit Suoxiyu Nature Reserve: Ten-Mile Gallery, Herb-Collecting Old Man, Three Sisters Peak, Family Portrait, Longevity Star Seeing Off Guests, and more. Exit the mountains from the Wulingyuan main entrance, and the itinerary ends.
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4. Prices for Zhangjiajie attraction tickets and travel routes
The main entrance ticket to Zhangjiajie Forest Park is a one-ticket system (that is, a through ticket. It is a magnetic card verified by fingerprint, 248 RMB per person, valid for 48 hours. That means the ticket is valid for entering the mountains within two days. However, cable cars, elevators, and mini trains inside the scenic area require separate payment.
Regarding the two routes mentioned above, our regular prices are 470 RMB per adult for the three-day tour and 420 RMB per adult for the two-day tour, including meals, accommodation, guide fees, tickets, and insurance within the scenic area. The route prices on the website are also regular prices. If you want to save money, contact me before or after Golden Week.
Golden Week prices will certainly rise because the sharp increase in the number of tourists in a short period will cause an imbalance between supply and demand in the entire tourism market's reception facilities, including manpower and material resources. Although many independent travel operators in the same industry have already released National Day independent travel route prices, in order to grasp an accurate and specific price—neither higher than the market price, giving tourists the most affordable price, nor lower than the market price, ensuring service quality—the specific route prices have not yet been set. But I can guarantee that my prices will definitely be within the market range, and for long-term service and operation, we will certainly ensure service quality and win a good reputation among tourists. Finally, I remind friends planning to visit Zhangjiajie during the National Day period that you must prepare in advance and contact us to ensure room bookings, return tickets, guide arrangements, and so on.
If you have a certain understanding of the notes for Zhangjiajie Golden Week travel, I estimate you will be more reassured and more confident about traveling to Zhangjiajie. Come, Zhangjiajie's beautiful scenery is waiting for you! I am also ready to receive you at any time!
If you do not want to travel during the National Day Golden Week and do not like crowds, you can also avoid the sea of people and visit Zhangjiajie after the National Day holiday.