Ask a QuestionZhangjiajie as a major tourist city, offer much to explore but not only its beautiful landscape. What to do in Zhangjiajie? Come with justo trip, we would like to introduce some of the recommended activities for you to find a way to experience Zhangjiajie in a traditional local way. You will find yourself the fastest way to access to the local culture, to get a closer look of this graceful city.
As we all know, mountains in Zhangjiajie are the inspiration of the floating mountain in the movie Avatar. In reality, the Hallelujah Mountain is located in the Yuanjiajie Scenic Area. Traveling to Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, you can witness the Hallelujah Mountain by yourself.
Location: Zhangjiajie National Forest Park
Height: vertical drop of 335 meters and running height of 326 meters
Speed: 5.25 meters per second
One-way trip: about 66-88 seconds
Bailong Elevator is one of the must-experience activities in Zhangjiajie. Connecting the ground and the Yuanjiajie Scenic Area, Bailong Elevator is a glass sightseeing elevator built into the cliff of Zhangjiajie. Known as the tallest outdoor elevator in the world, Bailong Elevator provides stunning view of the sandstone pillars at the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park. There are 3 elevators of Bailong Elevator, and each elevator can accommodate 64 travelers. For the three elevators, they can lift 6000 travelers to the upper area of Yuanjiajie Scenic Area each hour, which greatly save the time of hiking.
Tianmen Mountain, also known as Heavenly Gate Mountain is one of the landmarks of Zhangjiajie. The Tianmen Cave(Heavenly Gate) is one of the highlights of the Tianmen Mountain. It is a natural karst cave with 131.5 meters tall, 57 meters wide and 60 meters deep.
The cableway of Tianmen Mountain is 7,454 meters long, which takes about 28 meters to get to the top of the Tianmen Mountain by taking the cableway. At the top of the Tianmen Mountain, you can have a panoramic view of the city, the bends of the road and the mountains.
There are glass walkway at the Tianmen Mountain, if you want to challenge yourself, you can try to walk on the glass walkway and look down the things under your feet through the transparent glass.
Boasting lakes, waterfalls and mountains, Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon is one of the most popular attractions in Zhangjiajie. Glass Bridge of the Grand Canyon is one of the highlights of the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon. Located about 300 meters over the ground, the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge is 430 meters long. Walking on the Glass Bridge, you can see the things under your feet through the glass.
Climb the high platforms such as Tianzi Mountain and look around, you will see thousands of grotesque stone peaks. It is a real world of the Avatar mountains. On clear and sunny days, you will see the stone pillars clearly, which is like a Chinese painting. On foggy days, you will see the towering stone peaks surrounded by the most, which makes them more magnificent. On foggy and rainy days, sometimes you can’t see the mountains clearly because of the clouds or mists.
Venue: Charming Xiangxi Grand Theatre
ADD: Western Hunan International Cultural Square, No. 20 Guihua Road, Wulingyuan District, Zhangjiajie
Duration: about 1.5 hours (19:30-21:00)
Charming Xiangxi contains strong distinctive ethnic feature and has enjoyed a high reputation in Hong Kong, China mainland, Taiwan and other Chinese region, as well as South Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia and other places. It integrates the traditional folk art, craft with modern sound, light and electricity technology perfectly and ultimately creates "Fire & Drum", "Eternal Border Town Cui" and "Chasing Love in Xiangsi Building" etc. It is simple but elegant, matching with Wulingyuan natural scenery.
The list of the performance includes Xiangxi corpse driving, the drum dance of Miao, Wedding lament (Tujia Kujia), Chasing love and other contents. All this content contains the local culture of Tujia people.
Venue: The Mount Tianmen Valley Grand Theatre
ADD: The Mount Tianmen Valley Grand Theatr in Zhangjieji, Hunan province.
Duration: 100 minutes (20:10 – 21:50)
Tianmen Fox Fairy----the New Story of Woodman Liuhai is known as the world’s first real-scene musical drama with the high mountain and deep valleys as the stage background. Tianmen Fox Fairy was put on at the foot of Tianmen Mountain, Zhangjiajie in September, 2009.
The whole performance of Tianmen Fox Fairy is divided into five parts, including the King of fox’s choosing imperial concubine, meeting on the mountain, lovesickness at night, betraying to the King and waiting. The show tells a romantic love story about a fox fairy and an ordinary woodman that makes a living by chopping woods. During the show, you can appreciate the flying waterfall, the big moon; you are able to hear the folk songs, which are performed by 100 local singers with silver ornaments; you can enjoy the dance at the same time.
Time: Evening of the 25th day of the six lunar month (about August)
Venue: Zhangjiajie
On the evening of the 25th day of the sixth lunar month, the Bai people put many torches together and jump them over repeatedly. They pray in this way to the God of Fire to eliminate the pests on the farmland and chase away all the evils.
Note: this festival is only held once in a year. Please just check out the time you go there, so that you will not miss the interesting festival there.
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