Morning pickup, city tour of Tianmen Mountain and Tianmen Cave, Baofeng Lake Scenic Area or Yellow Dragon Cave Scenic Area
Morning:
The guide and driver will meet your group at Zhangjiajie Airport or Railway Station with a sign. Drive to the lower station of the Tianmen Mountain Cableway and visit Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park (the ¥258 admission and cableway ticket are included). Tianmen Mountain has a profound cultural heritage and is known as the "Soul of Wuling," as well as the "First Sacred Mountain of Xiangxi." It combines peaks, rocks, springs, streams, clouds, and forests, and embodies majesty, wonder, beauty, steepness, and tranquility. It is praised as a primitive garden in the sky. We will take the Tianmen Mountain Cableway to visit Tianmen Mountain: see Tianmen Cave, the 99-Bend Road wonder (Tongtian Avenue), Li Na's Villa, Guigu Plank Road, Guigu Military Formation, Yunmeng Fairy Summit, Tianmen Mountain Temple, Lingquan Courtyard, Wood and Stone Love, and other famous attractions.
Tianmen Cableway: The cableway has an inclined length of 7,455 meters and a vertical height difference of 1,279 meters between the upper and lower stations. It is the world's longest single-line circulating detachable gondola cableway, like a rainbow spanning "the human world" and "heaven," and also like a giant dragon soaring in the clouds, clinging to the cliffs and rising into the sky, stirring the heart and magnificent. It has become one of the "Four Wonders" of the Tianmen Mountain Scenic Area.
Tongtian Avenue: Known as Tongtian Avenue, this winding mountain road has a total of 99 bends, like a jade belt winding around, with each bend closely connected, layer upon layer, clinging to the cliffs and soaring into the clouds. The "Number One Road Wonder in the World" has emerged, and viewed from the cableway, the road is as dense as a spider web, with a vertical drop of about one kilometer.
Tianmen Cave: 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 sheer cliff thousands of feet high. It is majestic and towering, a rare high-altitude karst cave through the mountain, and an unparalleled wonder of nature. The 2006 Russian Air Force aerobatic performance at Tianmen Mountain in Zhangjiajie heightened the mystery of Tianmen Cave and once again made it a global focus.
Guigu Plank Road: Beneath your feet is an endless green wilderness, with flocks of birds playing in the canyon and occasionally an eagle sweeping past your eyes. Close your eyes, stretch your numb legs, with a racing heartbeat, open your arms, and you can enjoy the most perfect, exciting, and nature-close SPA. After all, enjoying scenery on a cliff is generally not something ordinary humans can experience.
Afternoon:
Visit the "Sacred Lake in the Sky"—Baofeng Lake Scenic Area (the ¥96 admission is included): Baofeng Lake combines mountains and water, and integrates folk customs. It is especially famous for its unique high-gorge lake scenery, the Baofeng Waterfall that "flies down three thousand feet," and the mysterious ancient temple deep in the mountains. We will go to see the lifelike attractions such as Baofeng Waterfall, Fairy Mirror, Stone Gate Welcoming Guests, Peacock Displaying Feathers, Golden Toad Holding the Moon, and Divine Turtle Emerging from Water. Boating on the lake, you can listen to the antiphonal singing of the young men and women on the water, and see the egrets fishing in the clear water.
Or visit the Yellow Dragon Cave Scenic Area, known as the "All-Around Champion of World Karst Caves" (the ¥100 admission is included): Yellow Dragon Cave was selected as "China's Most Beautiful Tourist Karst Cave" in 2005. Inside the cave, lights are dim and stalagmites stand in forests, like ancient trees with twisted roots. There are caves within caves and rivers within caves, full of wonders. It truly deserves the name "Underground Magic Palace." The cave also has famous attractions such as the 100-million-yuan insured stalagmite Dinghai Shenzhen, Xiangshui River, Dragon King Assembly Hall, Tianxian Water, and Tianzhu Street.
Accommodation:
Wulingyuan Suoxiyu (Scenic Area)
Recommended Optional Activity:
Watch the large-scale folk visual feast "Charm of Xiangxi," which was performed at the 2012 Dragon Year CCTV Spring Festival Gala, at ¥228 per person.