i am planning to visit the following places on my own at Zhangjiajie 1. tianmen mountain 2. grand canyon and glass bridge 3. wulingyuan scenic area covering tianzi mountain, yuanjiajie, tenmile gallery, golden whip stream, yellow dragon cave i will be spending 4 days. Can you guide on how to plan the trip daywise with the suggested route. If you have suggestion on english guide for sightseeing, please share along with the reasonable rates per day for a guide

Hi I had recently visited Zhangjiajie and I like to share my experience with you: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT EXPLORING ZHANGJIAJIE NATIONAL FOREST PARK (1) (Looking for “Avatar” Halelujah Mountains in the wrong scenic site). Zhangjiajie National Forest Park is part of a much larger 397.5 km2 (153.5 sq mi) Wulingyuan Scenic Area. Within these huge forest parks, the popular “Avatar” Halelujah mountains are located at Yuanjiajie scenic site and not at Yangjiajie scenic site. A lot of tourists have either explored the wrong scenic site at Yangjiajie (thinking it is the same as Yuanjiajie due to its almost similar names) or being fooled by either unprofessional or inexperienced guide who brought them to another scenic site at Yangjiajie. I had seen innocent tourists who traveled and visited this forest by themselves left disappointed after having wasted the entire day finding and looking for the “Avatar” Halelujah mountains not knowing they had visited the wrong scenic site. (2) (Always visit Huangshizhai Village first) Many tourists who visited Zhangjiajie National Forest Park by themselves always took the wrong decision to explore Golden Whip Stream Scenic Route first, thinking they would have enough time to return to explore Huangshizhai Village later. This is a wrong decision. The reason being the Golden Whip Stream Scenic is about 7.5 km from north to south, winding across mountains and valleys. It will take about 3 hours to complete the whole journey to the other side of the forest. By the time you realized how far is it while trekking this route, it would be too late or you would be too exhausted to turn back where you came from to explore the second site at Huangshizhai Village. Most tourists would have given up exploring Huangshizhai Village as it is too far to turn back and probably won’t be able to make it to the site cable car within its operation hours to go up and return. In fact, Huangshizhai Village has a very unique mountain scenery with incredible view so much different from the hallelujah mountains at Wulingyuan Scenic Area. It is a pity that a lot of tourists have missed this unique site due to common human error in exploring Zhangjiajie National Forest Park. (3) (Inconvenience of public transportation to Zhangjiajie National Forest Park) The bus network is the worst in Zhangjiajie compared to other popular attractions in China. Often foreign tourists who can’t speak the local language are left confused and disorientated when they got lost in transition. Wasting much valuable time in finding the correct bus to go to the National Park from their hotel. The bus system in Zhangjiajie is so complex that there is not direct bus to take you from the city to the forest park directly. Depending on where you take the public bus from, the bus journey usually ends in a bus station and you need to get into another bus to reach to your next destination. There are often no signs, no officer to guide you where to go. If you are visiting the park until late evening, you may be stranded at the national park main entrance for missing the last bus and the taxi fare to return to your hotel is also very expensive. In worst scenario, there are some foreign tourists who took a wrong bus and ended in a location far away from their hotel. Causing unnecessary stress and frustration due to their inability to speak the local language. These are usually common miseries faced by foreign tourists in Zhangjiajie who wish to travel alone and visit these forest parks by themselves without the aid of a guide or without joining a private tour. Even if you have done proper research on where to go in Zhangjaijie, you would still face these miseries as the culture, customs and the huge vast forest parks under the local public transportation system are something you would not expect when you are there. Unless you can speak proper Chinese, you will definitely face a lot of miseries in trying to explore these forest parks by yourselves. Much time will be wasted in searching for the scenic sites, searching for the correct public transportation and lastly searching for food that you desired after a long day exploring. So it does not take a scientist to realize that it is always better to hire a local english speaking guide from a reliable reputed company for a private tour to explore these vast forest parks with a peace of mind. There may be a lot of reputable and reliable tour companies you can find in the website nowadays, but I was fortunate to have appointed a beautiful guide named Grace from World Heritage Network who specializes in arranging this type of tour for foreign tourists and their guided service is second to none and the best I had experienced in all my travels in China. You can find their page in the Tripadvisor with the same name “World Heritage Network - Zhangjiajie National Forest Park Day Tour” So have fun if you are there. Always travel smart and safe ya.

I am planning a trip to Xhangjiajie National Park and need a local tour guide to see all the attractions there. I have been qouted 400 RBM per day which seems a bit too much. Is there any good and cheap tour guides?

Hello, I am planning to travel Zhanjiajie and Shiniuzhai skywalk from Beijing. Any suggestion on the mode of travel to these places and the number of days I would require to see the scenic spots. I can spend about 4-5 days on total. Thanks

Hi, I will be in Hunan China during the end of November. Any suitable tour if I am going alone? May I know the program and the tour fee? I would like to find out what is the temperature in Zhangjiajie during that time? Apart from warm clothing, anything else that I need to bring for the tour? And also, is normal sport shoe suitable for the tour?

We are about to visit Zangjiajie, just a little confused about this listing, the website of this listing claims it's a local travel agency at zangjiajie, but from their website, it shows the address: 1-10-4, Sanxing Building, No. 3 Lijiang Road, Guilin, 541004, China. Not what the listing shows the address of Wulingyuan District, Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, China, Zhangjiajie 427000, China. Which is the real one? Can we trust anyway? Because we really want to find a credible local agency to guide us in zangjiajie, it will be our first time to travel there.

someone propose following itinerary, like to listen to your opinion, Day1: walk 10 minutes to the park entrance from Pipaxi hotel, ascend Huangshizhai on foot 2 hours, lunch at the mountain top, take a big loop to see the half of Zhangjiajie mountain peaks, in the afternoon take cable car downhill, back to Pipaxi hotel, Day2: start off after breakfast, walk 40 minutes along Jinbianxi stream, ascend Yuanjiajie from Luanchuanpo 2 hours hike, sightseeing in back garden, lost soul terrace, Hallelujah floating mountain, Tianxi diyi qiao bridge, lunch in Yuanjiajie, in the afternoon sightseeing in Yangjiajie, take Yangjiajie cable car down, from longfeng an to Zhangjiajie national forest park entrance, back to pipaxi hotel. Day3: after breakfast drive to Baofeng Lake, and Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon, finish your impressive tour in Zhangjiajie, transfer to Zhangjiajie airport.

Hi, My husband and I are expected to land in Zhangliajie on june 2st 2015 at 21:20. We are planing to visit the resort in the next two days, namely June 3st and 4st until the evening (at 22:30 we have flight to Xian). We interested in a tour guide for these days in Zhangliajie. We would like the offer to include all tickets, transportation (also from and to the Hotel) and recommended tracks in the resort. Best regardes, Liat.