1. Departure

Zhangjiajie, a famous tourist city at home and abroad that is only six or seven hours 'drive from Xiangyang, has never been to it. Although I planned to go many times, I never managed to make it. I have also passed by Zhangjiajie many times, but never got off the bus. It is a pity that I haven't visited the strange peaks, rocks and waterfalls and streams there so far. After September, I will be busy and I will have no time. Taking advantage of the fact that there were still a few free days in August, I decided to go. Leave as soon as you say, book tickets and accommodation the day before. At 10:05 a.m. on August 18, take the K473 express train at Xiangyang Station to Zhangjiajie, preparing to take a deeper free trip in famous scenic spots such as Zhangjiajie National Forest Park and Tianmenshan National Forest Park. After the speeding train crossed the Yangtze River and entered Hunan Province, when temporarily stopping during driving, I saw the words "Yu Gong Move Mountains to Transform China" carved on the leveled mountain beside the railway. I felt very cordial! This is a true portrayal of the spiritual outlook of the Chinese people when the Jiaozhiliu Railway was built! It is precisely with the spirit of the foolish old man that China has undergone earth-shaking changes! In the new historical period, I hope that this spirit of "the foolish old man moving mountains" will be further carried forward!

Xiangyang Railway Station Zhanqian Square

K473 arrived at Jingmen Station

K473 arrives at Shimen North Station

The slogan "Foolish Old Man Move Mountains to Transform China" on the Jiaoliu Line

K473 arrived at Zhangjiajie Station 5 minutes earlier at 16:38. After exiting the station, we went straight to the central bus station and took the scenic CMB at 5 p.m. to Zhonghu (near the Yangjiajie Ticket Station) in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park (Wulingyuan). The inn I booked is there. Although I decided suddenly to go to Zhangjiajie this time, I chose accommodation in accordance with my own principles: it must be cost-effective, convenient external transportation, convenient and quick access to the scenic spots, and warm and thoughtful service from the store. After repeated comparison and screening on Ctrip, I chose an inn near the Yangjiajie Ticket Station. Facts have once again proved that my choice was completely correct! When I started to conduct online primary elections, I found the phone number of the owner of the inn and contacted me to understand the specific situation. After the boss introduced it on the phone, he added me on WeChat to provide me with relevant information. After the order is placed, inform you to pick it up at the time. After I got off the train, I followed the bus information provided by the inn owner, and it was very convenient to find the tourist bus step by step. After arriving at the destination, I took a phone call and the boss drove to pick it up in a few minutes. The room arranged was extremely cost-effective! In the evening, the boss also introduced the tour route in detail for the next day.

Zhangjiajie railway station

2. Yuanjiajie Scenic Area

After having breakfast at 7 a.m. on the 19th, I took the self-driving car of three Hunan friends to the Tianzi Mountain Ticket Station of Zhangjiajie Forest Park. After buying 3 yuan insurance, I entered the scenic area with my ID card (Zhangjiajie Forest Park Scenic Area is not only free for tourists over 65 years old, but also free of environmentally friendly tickets in the scenic area (valid for four days), which deserves great praise!), Then take an eco-friendly car to Sanchakou parking lot and then transfer to an eco-friendly car to the Tianxia First Bridge parking lot. At 8:30 a.m., you will visit Yuanjiajie Scenic Area. Yuanjiajie is one of the main scenic spots in the Forest Park. Part of the exterior scenes of the hit movie "Avatar" were filmed here. It is a must-visit for Internet celebrities to check in.

Walking along the sightseeing plank road, you can see thousands of peaks standing opposite, lush and pleasing to the eye. At the bottom of the foot, there is a vast abyss and straight cliffs, which makes people shudder.

On the way forward, we arrived at the famous scenic spot in Yuanjiajie-the First Bridge in the World. The First Bridge in the World is simply a ghost worker of nature. A natural stone slab about 4 meters thick is "erected" on the two peaks across the sky, connecting the east and west peaks. The entire "bridge deck" is about 2 meters wide and about 20 meters long. When encountering cloudy and rainy weather, clouds and clouds often smoke under the bridge. When we went yesterday, the weather was sunny, the visibility was high, and there were not many tourists. We really watched it carefully.

As we all know, the main location of the movie "Avatar" is in Zhangjiajie Forest Park, and the dreamy mountains in Yuanjiajie have turned into floating mountains in the movie. The Qiankun Pillar, also called Nantian Pillar, is located at the southern end of the Yuanjiajie Scenic Area. It is the location of the floating "Hallelujah Mountain" in the movie "Avatar". The vertical height of the Qiankun Pillar is about 150 meters, and lush vegetation grows on the top. The shape of the peak is very strange and stands upright like a knife and axe, hence the name Qiankun Pillar.

Continuing along the plank road, countless sand and gravel peaks in a variety of shapes are presented in front of us, which amazes us at the magical creation of nature! True: The ecstasy platform is filled with ecstasy, and it looks like a fairyland. A pillar stands tall in the south, and a bridge of ghosts and gods is born to cry.

3. Yangjiajie Scenic Area

After visiting Yuanjiajie yesterday (19th), I took an environmentally friendly car to Yangjiajie. Yangjiajie is a scenic spot that has been developed relatively late and is famous for its dangerous and strange original ecological environment. The story of the TV series "Suppression of Bandits in Wulong Mountain" is based on this. The terrain here is indeed "one man blocks the pass, but ten thousand people cannot open it." It is very dangerous. We mainly visited Wulong Village, Tianbo Prefecture and other scenic spots. We did not set foot in several other scenic spots, such as the Sky Corridor and the Sky in One Step, due to the long distance and difficult roads.

thousand enemies

Climbing the ladder of Tianbo Prefecture (one up, one down)

People are at your feet

Thin as a blade

Walking down the plank road

4. Tianzi Mountain Scenic Area

According to the original plan, after visiting Yangjiajie, the day's trip ended, but it was only after 1 p.m., which was still early, so I took an eco-friendly car to Tianzi Mountain with my friends from a family of three in Hunan. After arriving at Tianzishan Parking Lot, I first went to Helong Park and saw the statue of Marshal He Long.

Tianzi Mountain is located in the north of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park and adjacent to Suoxiyu Scenic Area to the east. It is named after Xiang Dakun of the Tujia nationality called himself "Xiangwang Tianzi" in the early Ming Dynasty.

Several viewing platforms on Tianzi Mountain can enjoy the scenery of Tianzi Mountain Scenic Area. The scenery here is another style, very exquisite, and is called a magnified bonsai.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, Tianzi Mountain was still a sea. Later, due to complex and long geological processes, various strange-shaped geological landscapes such as Yubi Peak, fairy flower-laying, Dianjiangtai, aerial pastoral, and Xianren Bridge were formed in Tianzi Mountain. and strange peaks. Don't pay too much attention to the similarities and dissimilarities between these natural shapes, because the "original scenery and natural beauty" is the charming place of Tianzi Mountain.

The Xifeng Stone Forest is a famous attraction on Tianzi Mountain. The countless towering peaks of various shapes make people fascinated by the sight and can't bear to leave for a long time.
Yubi Peak is also a famous scenic spot on Tianzi Mountain. Looking around, many mountain peaks look like the imperial calligraphy of Tianzi Xiang, who is reviewing the great rivers and mountains under his jurisdiction.

After visiting Tianzi Mountain, my Hunan friends and my family took an environmentally friendly car back to the Tianzi Mountain Ticket Station and took their private car back to the inn.

5. Huangshizhai Scenic Area:

According to the itinerary introduced by the innkeeper, on the morning of the 20th, I packed my luggage, after breakfast, and took a Hunan friend's private car to the Yangjiajie Ticket Station to prepare to visit Huangshi Village. After arriving at the Yangjiajie Ticket Station, I changed to an eco-friendly car several times and walked a wooden plank road before arriving at the Huangshizhai Cable Car Exit Station. Walking on the boardwalk is also a kind of enjoyment. Walking on the boardwalk under the shade of towering trees, you breathe the air rich in oxygen-donating ions. From time to time, naughty monkeys jump around at your feet, or coaxing people, or begging tourists for food adds to the fun of walking.

"If you don't climb Huangshi Village, you will go to Zhangjiajie in vain." Huangshi Village is located in the south of the scenic area and is the largest and most concentrated viewing platform in Zhangjiajie Forest Park. Huangshi Village is surrounded by cliffs and trees, and the top of the village is often full of clouds and clouds. Climb to the top of Huangshi Village and look around, you can experience the pride of "seeing all the mountains at a glance".

After arriving at the Huangshizhai Cable Car Station, we lined up to take the cable car to the top of the mountain. In more than 3 minutes, we reached the top of Huangshizhai Mountain in an instant, reducing the difficulty of climbing more than a thousand steps. What is particularly worthy of praise is that cable car tickets are half fare for students and people over 60 years old, and 59 yuan for a round-trip trip.

Get on the cable car and get to Huangshizhai

Huangshizhai is a relatively independent mountain platform, famous for its majestic nature, with an average altitude of 1100 meters and 0.2 square kilometers. The tour route is a circular route along the mountain side to view the scenery. Our tour started at Fozhang Peak, then arrived at Liuqi Pavilion, where we climbed to have a view.

Peak viewed from Fuzhang Peak

Liuqige

Mountain view at Liuqige

Walking along the sightseeing loop to enjoy the beautiful scenery. After seeing Wuzhifeng, it was already past 10 o'clock. Since my Hunan friend's family had to go to Jinbianxi and Jiutian Xuannu Cave that day, and then to Fenghuang Ancient City, time was tight. It would take at least an hour and a half to tour all Huangshizhai attractions. Based on the situation, they decided to reduce the number of views and have options to watch. I have more time and can watch slowly. I can only say goodbye here! For a day and a half, I traveled with their family to Yuanjiajie, Yangjiajie, Tianzi Mountain and Huangshizhai. I received warm care and help from their family. I took their private car to enter and exit the scenic spots and cared for me everywhere during the tour, especially the night before. I was invited to dinner, which made me very moved and grateful! I sincerely wish Hunan friends CHEN, LIOU and the whole family a happy and smooth journey in the next trip! I wish their whole family happiness and well-being!

Huangshizhai Scenic Area is full of landscape paintings, and natural murals can be seen everywhere. The echo wall echoed loudly, and I also roared a few times at the top of my voice to breathe out the turbid breath in my heart! There are scenery everywhere, and many beautiful scenery are the location of "Avatar". There is no need to continue to talk about the beautiful scenery, please take pictures of friends.

After a more comprehensive and complete tour of Huangshi Village, the hour hand pointed to 12 o'clock, so I took the cable car down the mountain and prepared to go to the next scenic spot-Jinbianxi.

6. Jinbianxi

After taking a cable car down the mountain from Huangshizhai, go to the Jinbian River Scenic Area. This is a canyon sandwiched by two mountains, with lush towering trees on both sides. The creek in the middle of the canyon gurgling water is clear to the bottom. Tourists in the creek either interact with mountain monkeys, or use small nets to play a fish fishing game. The sign by the creek says where giant salamanders (baby fish) live. Will there be baby fish in this creek? I wandered along the tree-lined avenue by the stream. This scenic spot is very worthy of its name as a leisure place.

After wandering around, I went back to the stone tablet where the Tang Priest and his disciples learned scriptures. After wandering for about an hour, I then left the scenic spot through the Forest Park Ticket Station. At 2 p.m., I took a tourist bus back to Zhangjiajie City. I stayed for one night and prepared to buy tickets to visit Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park as appropriate.

7. Tianmen Mountain Scenic Area leaves suspense

Arriving in Zhangjiajie City at around 3 p.m. on the 20th, I found a hotel near the railway station, and immediately went to the cableway company to buy tickets for Tianmen Mountain. I learned that there were no tickets for Line A (on the cable car, back by car) and Line B (on the cable car, back by car), and only tickets for Line C (up and down by car) were easy to buy, so I returned disappointed. I went to try my luck again early on the 21st, and it was still the same. Based on the situation, it was decided that if there was an opportunity in the future, I would go to Tianmen Mountain to take the cable car (this is the world's longest single-line circulating passenger cableway, with a length of 7455 meters and a height difference of 1279 meters. During operation, I could enjoy the city's style and dry changes. Mountain and scenery). At the same time, because the weather was too hot (39-40 degrees), I decided to go home and take the cable car to Tianmen Mountain as a suspense and leave it to be handled in the future depending on the situation.

Zhangjiajie Tianmenshan Cableway

8. Return journey

I bought the T282 express train that left at 10:23 on the 21st, checked out at 9:30 and went to the station. Zhangjiajie Railway Station covers a large area and has good urban scenery in front of it. The station facilities and equipment are relatively modern and the conditions are good. However, since it is not a hub station, there are not many passengers and trains.

Zhangjiajie Railway Station Zhanqian Square

Zhangjiajie Railway Station Zhanqian Square

Zhangjiajie Railway Station Waiting Hall

The T282 express train left Zhangjiajie Station 6 minutes late, and the road was windy and electrified. Arrived at Xiangyang Station at 17:02, got off the bus, and quickly got home home.

Xiangyang Railway Station Station Station

This trip to Zhangjiajie lasted a full 4 days, including two days of travel and two days of sightseeing. I basically saw all the main attractions of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park and gained a lot. It's a bit a pity that we didn't make a visit to Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park, so let's leave some suspense. This trip to Zhangjiajie once again tested my physical condition. When visiting Huangshi Village and Jinbianxi, I carried a weight of 25 kilograms on my back.(12.5 kg) backpack (clothing, snacks, water, two cameras and tripod), walked 16,700 steps (yesterday's pedometer showed 20336 steps), in addition to feeling a little heavy and tired at first, I later adapted and didn't feel any discomfort, which once again confirmed that my physical condition is still okay. This is a very gratifying thing.

This trip to Zhangjiajie still received the attention and encouragement of my friends, which gave me strength and the courage to overcome difficulties. I sincerely thank all friends!

The destination during travel is certainly a goal, but the most beautiful scenery is on the road, and the attention and encouragement of friends are part of the most beautiful scenery!

"Xiongguan Road is as solid as iron, but now we are moving forward from the beginning! "The sunset is infinitely beautiful, and our generation will cherish it!

Author: am0722

2019.10.08.