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From 0 10 to 10 10, I visited the great rivers and mountains in China and saw countless beautiful scenery. Some places don't want to go again once, and some places want to go again once. Zhangjiajie is one of them. This is my second visit to Zhangjiajie. Zhangjiajie is known as "three thousand wonders, eight hundred beautiful waters". Its exquisite shape, wonderful charm and beautiful artistic conception are called "masterpieces" of nature.

It is a world natural heritage, a world geological park, the first national forest park in China and the first batch of 5A scenic spots in China.

It is also the location of the American film Avatar and China's classic works A Dream of Red Mansions, The Journey to the West, The Devil of Zhong Kui and monster hunt.

If you haven't had time to go, follow my footsteps to Zhangjiajie and feel that feeling now.

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Day 1: Pingdingshan-Zhangjiajie-check in the sign shop of Suoxi Shanju Luxury Resort Hotel.

The next day: Zhangjiajie National Forest Park "Shili Gallery-Tianzishan-Yuanjiajie-Yang Jiajie"-Suoxi Shanzhai Dinner-Stay in Suoxi Shanju Luxury Signboard Store.

Day 3: Huangshizhai-Jin Bianxi-Zhangjiajie Ancient Love-Suoxi Shanju Light Luxury Hotel

Day 4: Baofeng Lake-Return trip

scheduling

Tourist season

In spring and autumn, Zhangjiajie, which is most suitable for spring, is full of flowers and spring. The autumn in Zhangjiajie is crisp, especially after the rain. After climbing the high platform in the mountain, thousands of stone peaks are like the sea of stone forests, avoiding the peak of long holidays.

Zhangjiajie National Forest Park is a famous tourist attraction in China, and the daily flow of people is not small. During major holidays, it is even more crowded. It is common for tourists to crowd into sightseeing bus and wait in line for more than two hours by elevator. It's best to avoid the peak.

1. Zhangjiajie has a large temperature difference between day and night, and the temperature on the mountain is lower than that in the urban area. Even if you play in early summer, you should wear long-sleeved trousers. It is best to take a windproof and warm coat when going up the mountain in spring and autumn, and add a fleece liner to the coat in winter. You'd better take a thin coat when climbing the mountain.

It's rainy in mountainous areas, and it will snow in winter. Shoes are preferably hiking shoes or sports shoes with thick soles and non-slip. The shoe covers sold in scenic spots should not be too slippery.

Zhangjiajie has a humid climate, and sometimes clothes may not be dry the next day after washing, so bring more light clothes for a change. Bring more underwear.

4. Take as little cash as possible and take good care of valuables. Now technology is developed and mobile payment is very popular. So travel abroad with as little cash as possible. At the same time, when traveling, valuables such as cameras and computers should be kept as close as possible. You must bring your ID card. You need to verify your ID card to book rooms and tickets.

5. Air ticket category: determine the travel time in advance and choose transportation, plane or train. It's best to download a travel app, which makes booking more convenient. It is best for students to bring their student ID cards, and tickets for scenic spots have corresponding discounts.

6. Digital category: SLR cameras, mobile phones, notebook computers, mobile hard disks, chargers, mobile power supplies and patch panels.

7. Hunan's diet is mainly spicy. If you are not used to spicy food, eat more gunpowder to prevent getting angry.

8. The glass bridge of the Grand Canyon is not allowed to carry sharp objects, such as blunt objects, cameras, thermos cups, tempered water cups, crutches and oversized backpacks. In order to protect the glass and avoid injury.

9. You'd better buy insurance before going out. Safe and reliable.

Practical strategies and preparations before departure

Zhangjiajie has its own airport and railway station, but there is no high-speed rail, only ordinary trains.

Lotus Airport, located in Yongding County, Zhangjiajie City, about 5 kilometers away from the urban area, is also the nearest airport I have ever seen. At present, round-trip flights have been opened to Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chongqing and other major domestic cities and some foreign cities. There are no direct flights to Zhengzhou, most of them are transit flights, so I chose the ordinary train when I came and the plane when I came back.

[urban traffic]

bus

Zhangjiajie is a small city with few bus lines. At present, there are a total of 10 bus lines in the city, which generally operate from 6: 00 to 20: 30, and the fare is 1-2 yuan. Main bus routes:

Bus No.4: via the airport and Tianmenshan cableway.

Bus No.5: Via Tianmenshan Cableway and Tujia Style Garden.

Bus No.6: Pass the train station and bus station.

10 Bus: Pass through Tianmenshan Cableway, Tujia Style Garden, Railway Station and Bus Station.

taxi

Taxis in Zhangjiajie are in 5 yuan during the day and in 6 yuan at night (22:00- 7:00 the next day). Zhangjiajie is a small city, so it won't surpass 20 yuan by taxi. There is generally no need to take a taxi from downtown to forest park, and the price is around 100 yuan.

Because the phenomenon that Zhangjiajie taxi drivers cheat foreign tourists is quite serious, if you want to go further, you must first talk about the cost.

From downtown to Zhangjiajie Forest Park, you can take a ride and make an appointment in advance. The cost is about 40 yuan, which is a good deal.

About traffic

Suo Xi shan ju luxury hotel

Once again, I came to Zhangjiajie. This time I stayed at the signature shop of Suoxi Shanju Luxury Hotel. I chose this shop because it is close to the east gate of the scenic spot, and it is very convenient to go out by car. If I am on business near the hotel, the hotel will arrange an electric car to pick me up. Please tell me how to get to other scenic spots by bus when signing up, and help me find a parking space to put my luggage when I enter the door. In short, the service is very good.

In addition, it is also a hotel with a sense of design, which integrates the texture of the surrounding Xiangxi buildings into modern design, festive candles, Tujia-style windows, green tiles, excellent hardware facilities, gentle and luxurious style without losing cultural taste. If you live here, you can swim slowly and enjoy Zhangjiajie.

The hotel lobby is spacious and bright. You can have tea and chat in the hall. There is a projection in the hall. You can also sit on the sofa, play games, listen to music and watch movies.

After registering at the front desk, take the elevator to the third floor. The room is spacious and bright, the bedding is comfortable and tidy, and all kinds of supporting facilities are complete to meet your various needs. Coming to Zhangjiajie is definitely your comfortable home.

The style of the room is my favorite, literary, simple, fresh and simple.

Accommodation recommendation

The design of Sohi Cabin is unique. To come to the hotel, you can take the transparent elevator and the characteristic corridor to the fourth floor. Every floor in the store has its own characteristics. On the first floor, self-help, family and lovers "eat food" are the main features. The characteristic dining table is full of charm, and the birdcage box is the most popular. The second floor is mainly about "eating goods", such as seafood and aquatic products, so that tourists can eat delicious food in Zhangjiajie. On the third floor is a box restaurant named after Zhangjiajie Tian Zi, Tianmen Mountain, Huanglong Cave and Grand Canyon, which is very interesting. The fourth floor is the banquet hall.

Hunan cuisine is mainly spicy. These days, we have chosen the hotels owned by Suoxi Shanju Hotel, and there are many restaurants. The bowls and bowls in Suoxi Shanzhai and Zhaizi are all distinctive Xiangxi local dishes, which are delicious and affordable.

Seafood dried fish vermicelli pot, fried meat with sour pepper in the old altar, braised pork with Tujia in rural areas, farmer's rice, chopped fish head with pepper and stewed old hen with wild mushrooms are all very good dishes.

Ethnic minorities are hospitable, and there is a saying that "nothing can be done without wine". Their wine is like the mountains and water of the Miao nationality. How high the mountain is, how long the water is, and how deep the water is, how deep the jar is! In Xiangxi and Guizhou, when guests are in the middle of eating, Miao Du Shimei will toast, hold a glass of wine and sing "Drink if you like, drink if you don't like, whether you like it or not!" Before the guests could react, they were already "surrounded" and "high mountains and flowing water" began to be staged.

"Glutinous rice wine" is only 8 degrees sweet, so don't worry if you don't drink it. It feels like fermented wine, so it's delicious.

Besides good wine, the food here is also very good, which is worth recommending. It's also very cost-effective for four or five people to eat less than 200 yuan.

About tickets

The ticket prices of specific scenic spots in Zhangjiajie Scenic Area are as follows:

1. Tickets for Baofeng Lake 96 yuan

2. Zhangjiajie National Forest Park scenic window: 248 yuan (60 years old or student ticket 168 window to buy now)

3. Grand Canyon Glass Bridge Scenic Area: 248 yuan (60 years old or student ticket 156 window to buy now)

4. Baofeng Lake window: 96 yuan (over 60 years old or student ticket 58 yuan)

5. Huanglong cave window 100 yuan (over 60 years old or student ticket to 68 yuan)

6. Zhangjiajie Ancient Love: adult ticket for VIP seats (including Zhangjiajie Ancient Love Scenic Area) (valid after the order is placed on the same day 1 hour). The online booking price in 320 yuan is 240 yuan.

The main attractions are purchased separately.

1. Yang Jiajie cableway one way: 76 yuan (off-season: 46 yuan)

2. Tianzishan cableway: 72 yuan (off-season: 43 yuan)

3. Bailong Elevator: 72 yuan (off-season: 43 yuan)

4. Shili Gallery: 38 yuan

5. Huangshizhai cableway: 65 yuan

6. Glass Bridge Treasure Elevator: 35 yuan

7. Tianmenshan escalator: 32 yuan (off-season: 20 yuan)

8. Glass plank road: 5 yuan shoe cover

9. Peak Cable Car: 25 yuan

Shili gallery

Shili Gallery is a scenic spot at the foot of Wulingyuan Scenic Spot in Zhangjiajie, and you need to take a bus to the scenic spot. This is a newly developed scenic spot, located in Suoxiyu Nature Reserve, about five kilometers long, with lush trees and fragrant wild flowers on both sides. Strange peaks and rocks, like huge landscapes, hang side by side on steep cliffs, making beautiful natural wonders dissolve into the ink paintings of immortal painters.

All the way into the Shili Gallery, the main attractions are the attic, the birthday girl welcoming guests, the old man picking herbs, the double-sided clock and so on. The scenery in the territory has a strange shape: people, gods, immortals, forests, birds and animals are exactly the same, and the sandstone peak forests in time are hidden and present in the clouds, which has changed a lot. But in fact, the popularity is not particularly high. You can visit it in less than half an hour, mainly by train in the scenic spot.

The feature of Shili Gallery is to take a small train, but you can also choose to walk there and go back and forth for 2 hours.

We chose to take a small train, each car has its own small horn, and every time we go to a scenic spot, we will play the introduction of the corresponding scenic spot.

The monkeys in Zhangjiajie seem cuter than those in Emei Mountain. At present, there are more than ten thousand wild monkeys/kloc-0 in Zhangjiajie Forest Park, which are widely distributed. In particular, there is a monkey garden in Shili Gallery, which can be said to be full of monkeys. When it rains, the monkeys are still enthusiastic and interact with tourists. Although monkeys are cute, we must pay attention to safety. Don't go near the monkey. Don't rummage around in front of the monkey. It may come up to get something and feed it to the monkey.

It is suggested that when you take a small train, you should sit on the left when you go and on the right when you come back, so that you can better see some strange shapes of Shili Gallery. In the past, you only heard the teacher talk about the strange landforms here in textbooks. Now you can deeply appreciate the charm of Zhangjiajie, just like a fairyland, which makes us linger.

Tianzishan-Yuanjiajie

When we came to Yuanjiajie to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Tianzi Mountain, we took the Tianzi Mountain cableway up the mountain. Tian Zi cableway is the second sightseeing cableway in Zhangjiajie after Huangshizhai cableway, and it is also the main means of transportation for tourists to enter Tian Zi Scenic Area.

The completion and opening of the Tian Zi cableway has greatly improved the tourist traffic environment in Wulingyuan Scenic Area, making it a pity that tourists spend half a day in Tianzi just for a look, instead of flying to the top of the mountain intermittently and enjoying the charming scenery of "expanding bonsai and narrowing fairyland".

He Long Park was built to commemorate the battle between Marshal He Long and Tian Zishan. It is located in Tianzi Mountain, Zhangjiajie City, Hunan Province. In the park, the bronze statue of He Long standing on the "Yunqingyan" is integrated with nature, forming a unique artistic style. This is the largest bronze statue in China in the past century. There are several observation decks overlooking the beautiful scenery of Fairy Scattered Flowers and Yubi Peak.

Marshal He Long was born in Hongjiaguan, Sangzhi County, western Tian Zi. Starting from the first meaning of two kitchen knives of Salt Bureau, Nanchang Uprising, 25,000-Li Long March, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. The Cultural Revolution made outstanding achievements and experienced many vicissitudes. Life is full of legends, and there are countless stories and legends about marshal in his hometown. The Tianzishan area was once the place where He Long, Ren, Xiao Ke and other generals fought guerrilla warfare.

"Narrow fairyland, enlarged bonsai" is the best way to describe the strange peaks and rocks in Zhangjiajie. Standing on the observation deck of Tian Zi, there are thousands of strange peaks in the distance, which are beautiful. It is simply a landscape ink painting.

Standing on the observation deck, we watched the clouds floating. It was the first time we saw them, and then we felt that we were floating. Zhangjiajie, a fairyland on earth, is not fake.

It is said that this "Daguan Platform" is also one of the four wonders of Zhangjiajie (sunrise, peak forest, winter snow and foggy sea). , is the best view of "Shili Gallery".

Standing here, you may understand the supreme Zen realm of "seeing mountains is mountains, not mountains, but mountains" from the real phenomenon.

Tian Zi is full of stone peaks and canyons. The majestic stone forest is like a sword, a sword, a halberd and a tattooed sky. Thousands of troops have come from Ma Benteng, and it is still Penglai Wonderland. "Anyone who knows the face of the son of heaven will go home without looking at the mountains in the world." This is no exaggeration.

It is said that Guilin's landscape is the best in the world, but when you come to Wulingyuan, you will find the peaks here more unique.

It is said that hundreds of millions of years ago, it used to be a rough sea. Years are long, and things are different. The "Yanshan Movement" with infinite natural forces gradually raised this place into land, mountains and rivers, and then "chiseled through" and "finely carved" with exquisite craftsmanship, thus forming today's sandstone, peak forest and canyon landforms with primitive ecosystems, and forming a unique stream.