Tour Features: Hunan is a mysterious city, boasting lots of enchanting attractions. Ramble over the Fenghuang Ancient City and Tujia Village, you can experience the ancient cultural flavor of Hunan; while visit the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park and Mt. Tianzi, you will love the verdant mountain and natural oxygen.
Day by Day Itinerary:
Day 1: Arrival in Zhangjiajie (-, L, -)
When you arrive in Zhangjiajie, our guide will pick you up in the airport and transfer you to your hotel. The rest of the day is yours to relax.
Day 2: Fenghuang Ancient City (B, L, -)
After your breakfast, you will transfer to the most beautiful city as well as the most famous national historical, cultural and picturesque city—Fenghuang Ancient City. You will ramble over the ancient flagstone street and watch the unique and classical wooden buildings alongside the street.
Then go to visit Shen Congwen's Residence, known as the author of a famous literature which describes this beautiful city.
Later you will go through the street full of national crafts and take a boat on the Tuojiang River. After all the trips, you will be transferred to Zhangjiajie and stay in the downtown overnight.
Day 3: Zhangjiajie National Forest Park (B, L, D)
Today you will visit Zhangjiajie National Forest Park. Zhangjiajie National Forest Park is a paradise which boasts lots of beauties and wonders, such as the pillar-like formations, the grotesque peaks, the colorful ribbonlike streams, the pleasant climate and so on.
Firstly you will take a cable car to the first village of Tujia group—Huangshi Fort. Standing by the Huangshi Fort, you can have a panoramic view of the beautiful scenery of Zhangjiajia National Forest Park.
Later you will descend by cable car and then take a stroll through one of the most beautiful valleys in the world—the Golden Whip Stream. The scenery there is the most enchanting in the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park; it is renowned as "a stream of bright watercolor painting, and a creator of ancient legends". Its unique and mysterious produces astonishment to the tourists. Stream-circling Valley is a beautiful alluvion form by the Golden Whip Stream and meet with three other streams. All the natural sceneries are listed in the UNESCO World Natural Heritage site.
Day 4: Tianzi Mountain (B, L, D)
Today you will have a trip to the Mt. Tianzi. You will take a cable car up and down the Tianzi Mountain. Mt. Tianzi is distributed with nearly 100 natural platforms for sightseeing, more than 2000 stone peaks and dozens of waterfalls and springs. The sea of clouds, the wavelike stone ranges etc. are spectacular. On the cable car, you can see lots of waterfalls and winding streams. The sceneries are wonderful and change all the time. You will marvel at the ancient battlefield, all the peaks there are lofty and with a height of more than hundreds of meters.
After descending, you will take a stroll in the Five Kilometers Gallery Stream which looks like a beautiful portrait of mountains and waterways. You will stay in the downtown of Zhangjiajie overnight.
Day 5: Tujia Palace (B, -, -)
Today you will go to visit Tujia Village. Tujia Palace is known as the place of celestially relique. The most remarkable features of Tujia Minority is the Hanging Watchtower, originality and majestic, with beautiful flower carving on windows. You will also visit the Tujia group's castle and their dance beckons with the hands. All of these will fulfill your appetite to Tujia culture. You can taste the delicious food of Tujia group and bring some unique things home for memory.
In the evening you will be transfered to airport for your next flight.
Itinerary: B: Breakfast AB: American Breakfast L: Lunch D: Dinner SD: Special Dinner
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