Zhangjiajie: 1-Day Forest Park Tour from Chongqing by Train

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• 1

  Your driver will sign your name and meet you at the hotel lobby at 6:00am and transfer to the Chongqing train station, due to you need to catch the 7am train to Zhangjiajie and you will reach at 10am.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 2
  Zhangjiajie

  Upon arrival in Zhangjiajie, your guide will meet you at the train station arrival exit and lead you to the National forest park and need 35 miuntes driving.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 3
  Zhangjiajie National Forest Park

  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.

  4 hours • Admission ticket included
• 4
  Tianzi Mountain

  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.

  20 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 5
  Tianzi Mountain Clouds

  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.

  20 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 6
  BaiLong Elevator

  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.

  20 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 7

  At the end, your guide will escort you to Zhangjiajie train sattion to catch 6pm train to Chongqing and arriving in Chongqing at 8:30pm.

  30 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 8
  Chongqing

  Upon arrival in Chongqing, you will find your driver at Chongqing train station and then transfer back to the Chongqing hotel around 9pm. The tour end.

  20 minutes • Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
• Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
• Not recommended for pregnant travelers
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• Public transportation options are available nearby

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