Baofeng Lake Scenic Area (or Yellow Dragon Cave Scenic Area), afternoon Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park
Morning:
Visit the "Holy Lake in the Sky"—Baofeng Lake Scenic Area (96 RMB entrance included): Baofeng Lake combines mountains and water with folk customs. It is especially famous for the exquisite high-gorge lake scenery, the Baofeng Waterfall that "plunges three thousand feet," and the mysterious ancient temple deep in the mountains. We will go to see the vivid attractions such as Baofeng Waterfall, Fairy Mirror, Stone Gate Greeting Guests, Peacock Spreading Its Tail, Golden Toad Holding the Moon, and Divine Turtle Emerging from Water. Boating on the lake, you can listen to the mountain songs of the local boys and girls, and watch egrets fishing in the emerald water.
Or visit the Yellow Dragon Cave Scenic Area (100 RMB entrance included), known as the "all-around champion of world karst caves": Yellow Dragon Cave was selected as "China's Most Beautiful Tourist Karst Cave" in 2005. Inside, the lights are dim, stalagmites stand in great numbers like ancient trees with twisted roots, caves within caves, rivers within caves—nothing is too strange. It truly deserves the name "Underground Magic Palace." The cave also has famous attractions such as the One-Billion-Yuan-Insured stalagmite Dinghai Shenzhen, Xiangshui River, Dragon King Gathering Hall, Heavenly Fairy Water, and Tianzhu Street.
Afternoon:
Take a 40-minute drive to the Tianmen Mountain cable car station and tour Zhangjiajie's new legend—Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park (258 RMB entrance and cable car ticket included). Tianmen Mountain has a profound cultural heritage and is known as the "Soul of Wuling" and the "First Divine Mountain of Xiangxi." It combines peaks, rocks, springs, streams, clouds, and forests, and embodies majesty, wonder, beauty, steepness, and tranquility. It is praised as an "aerial primeval garden." We will take the Tianmen Mountain cable car to visit Tianmen Mountain: see Tianmen Cave, the 99-bend road wonder (Tongtian Avenue), Li Na's Villa, Ghost Valley Plank Road, Ghost Valley Military Formation, Yunmeng Fairy Summit, Tianmen Mountain Temple, Lingquan Courtyard, Wood and Stone Love, and other famous attractions.
Tianmen Cable Car: The cable car line has an inclined length of 7,455 meters and a horizontal height difference of 1,279 meters between the upper and lower stations. It is the world's longest single-line circulating detachable grip cabin-style cable car, like a rainbow flying between "the human world" and "heaven," and like a giant dragon soaring in the white clouds, clinging to the mountain and walls, rising straight to the sky, soul-stirring and magnificent. It has become one of the "Four Wonders" of Tianmen Mountain Tourist Scenic Area.
Tongtian Avenue: Known as Tongtian Avenue, this winding mountain road has a total of 99 bends, like a jade belt winding around, bend after bend, layer upon layer, clinging to the mountain and walls, rushing straight to the clouds. The "Number One Road Wonder in the World" was born, and from the cable car, the road looks like a dense spider web, with a vertical height difference of about one thousand meters.
Tianmen Cave Opening: Climb 999 steps to Tianmen Cave and pray for blessings. It is 131.5 meters high and more than 50 meters wide, opening north-south on a thousand-fathom white cliff. It is majestic and towering, a rare high-altitude through-mountain karst cave, and a world-class wonder that fully displays the magic of creation. In 2006, the Russian Air Force's Zhangjiajie Tianmen Mountain aerobatic performance escalated the mystery of Tianmen Cave and once again made it a global focus.
Ghost Valley Plank Road: Under your feet is boundless green wilderness, flocks of small birds play in the canyon, and occasionally an eagle skims past your eyes. Close your eyes, with numb legs and a racing heartbeat, open your arms, and you can get a most perfect, exciting, and nature-close SPA. Because you should know that enjoying scenery on a cliff is generally not something humans can enjoy.
Afterwards, take the cable car back to the city and be transferred to the hotel for rest.
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Breakfast: √ Lunch: √ Dinner: None
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