China’s newest tourist spot is a glass-bottomed walkway around the cliff face of the Tianmen Mountain, 4,000 ft above sea level, at Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province. China’s newest tourist attraction … a glass-bottomed walkway around a cliff face.

Brave tourists looking to test their nerves have flocked to China to walk across this dazzling glass bridge suspended from a cliff face.The oriental Sky Walk is situated 4,700ft above sea level on the side of the Tianmen Mountain in Zhangjiajie, China.In order to keep the glass path clean, tourists are asked to put on shoe covers before walking.The 200ft long bridge joins the west cliff at the Yunmeng Fairy Summit, the summit of Tianmen Mountain and Zhangjiajie.The pathway, built earlier in the summer echoes the glass-bottomed walkway at the Grand Canyon in the U.S.The 70ft bridge is 4,000ft above the natural wonder and allows tourists to look through 2.5in of crystal-clear glass to the Canyon floor below.The Tianmen mountain, literally translated as Heavenly Gate Mountain is so called because of a huge natural cave that occurs halfway up to the summit.

Stunning: The glass skywalk offers breathtaking views across the Hunan Province for those brave enough to attempt to cross the bridge.Situated in the Hunan Province, its highest peak is around 5,000ft above sea level and it is home to a wealth of rare species of plants.A four-mile-long cable car was constructed in the park, which is said to be the longest of the same type in the world.The futuristic glass skywalk is a marked upgrade from another sky high mountain walkway located in the same province.

For comparison:
The Shifou Mountain located 82 miles away in Hunan Province offers sightseers a 3ft-wide road made of wooden planks thousands of feet high.When finished the ‘road’ – which is the width of a dinner table – will stretch for 1.8miles making it China’s longest sightseeing path.

You must know the movie AVATAR, the Pandora World in the movie is so amazing that every one wants to see it in the real world. Luckly, the real Pandora is just in Yuanjiajie which is one of the well-known scenic spots in Zhangjaijie National Forest Park. as a Hollywood photographer spent time shooting there in 2008. ‘Avatar’ Makes Its Mark on China’s Zhangjiajie, Floating Hallelujah Mountains featured in Hollywood blockbuster Avatar”,the prototypes in Zhangjiajie，grand and tactile forest landscape, it seems vertiginously suspended with sky above and chasms below.

Yuanjiajie is a naturally formed platform mountain, surrounded by higher summits which are divided by deep valleys. Added to this scene is an array of amazing lesser peaks and grotesque rocks. Each one stands in the valley and possesses its own peculiar shape. The foremost attractions in this area include: Back Garden, breathtaking Mihun Stage, and the First Bridge under the Sun.

Yuanjiajie lies between Yellow Stone Village and Tianzi Mountain(Emperor Mountain). From Zhangjiajie National Forest Park there are approaches to the place.There is a path (3000 steps, 1.5 hours walk) starts in the middle of Golden Whip Stream where there is a scenic spot called couple meeting from afar, when reaching the top, we can see traffic road and buses that transport tourists to Yangjiajie and Tianzi mountain, people usually spend 2 hours to do sightseeing nearby at Mihun tai and No.1 Bridge in the world before taking buses.

Main spots
● The first bridge under the sun: This natural stone bridge, streching across thin air between two mountain peaks, is 3 meters wide, 40 meters long, and 5 meters thick. it rises 357 meters above the valley floor. local people are accustomed to the adage,"walking on this bridge will bring you good health and longevity." if you make a way along the bridge, your body trembles ,your legs shake. so ,clearly, this natural structure not only tests your pulse and blood preesue, but it also challenges your psychological state.

● HallelujahMountain: In the middle of the journey, there is a single, very imposing peak stands erect, seemingly reaching to the sky, and it is the prototype of hallelujah mountain. distinct from its comrades, this one is small at its base and increases in size at the top. standing before it, we can get the sensation of tottering and crumbling. if you ride Leonopteryx(a huge bird in the movie AVTAR) and fly between peaks, you are in the real Pandora world.

● Back garden: A poet touring the wonderful Suzhou Gardens once wrote:“Other say I am in a city, but I insist that I am in the mountains.” Now, those gardens are world renowned, but after all, they are produced artificially, restricted by the craftsmen’s skill and limited by the available materials, the dimensions of the land, and the certain style of construction. But the “garden” which lies before us seems unrestrained: remarkable peaks appear to be strewn at random, some lofty and some diminutive; some have the appearance of towers, or pavilions, or chairs, while others resemble bonsais or statuaries. Indeed, some of these peaks have nothing that can be compared with, taking on every conceivable shape!

Ancestors of Tujia nationality have lived on this quartz sandstone land for thousands of years and no one has ever expected that there is a son of Tujia people, who changes the sleeping sand into a new type of world recognized art — sandstone painting. Li Junsheng, born in 1963, grew up in a very poor family and likes drawing since his childhood. One day, he found people like to spread color cobblestones on the wall when repairing houses and it’s very pretty, which inspired his idea of painting with sandstone. Li Junsheng’s sandstone paintings break through the using of traditional painting materials and use nature materials by making use of the hue of natural plant creatively, are of great artistic values.

Maoyan River is a 50-kilometer river lying in the upstream area of Li River in Yongding District of Zhangjiajie City. It is also called Rock River because of rocky cliffs on both sides of the river.

Maoyan River is famous for the green mountains along the river, clear water, queer rocks, many shoals and rapids. Drifting in the river one can experience the breathtaking feeling of drifting as well as enjoy the sight of the particularly beautiful scene along the river. There are over 30 scenic spots along the river. Among which the Rock River Gorge is the best of all. Cliffs rise steeply up to 500 meters. Many water falls are seen on both sides of the river. Shuidongzi Water Fall is the most magnificent one. Water pours out from a cave 70 meters above the river and formed a huge several decameters wide before it falls scattered into the river. It is no wonder that visitors enjoy lingering about such terrific mountains and rivers.

Although people of the Han Nationality are the principal part in Zhangjiajie, the populations of ethnic minority groups like the Tujia and Miao are sizeable. The night life is not as modern as that in the big cities, but it definitely has its own flavor.

Tourism is a major industry in Zhangjiajie and people visit the city particularly to see the folk singing and dancing performances at night in Wulingyuan Scenic Area or at the Charming Xiangxi (refers to Zhangjiajie)Theatre. In Zhangjiajie there are two lists of plays of the folk singing and dancing performance: one is ‘Charming Xiangxi' and the other 'Dream Zhangjiajie'. At the show of 'Charming Xiangxi', the actors all come from the local Tujia and Miao families, and their fair-sounding singing and multicolored folk finery are the highlights of the party. Performances of Xiangxi Magic and Xiangxi Ganshi (chucking corpse) add to the mysterious and thrilling luster of the show. The performance lasts for three hours, and it provides a window into the soul of the culture of Zhangjiajie.

At night, the streets of Zhangjiajie are full of vendors selling barbecue and local snacks. One such snack, Glutinous Rice Balls in Rice Wine Soup, is made of small glutinous rice balls, Chinese dates and sweet rice wine. This snack is not only very nutritious, but tasty as well. The cost is typically CNY1. Bean curd, grilled dried Tofu, Grilled Beef Skewers, and Grilled Mutton Skewers are very special local snacks found in the night market and are very inexpensive. Tujia Spicy Radish and pickled vegetables must be included in your tasting menu.

Drinks
The Tujia minority group has a long history of wine making. Their methods are fairly dainty and they use many different ingredients to make a wide variety of wines including: Rice Wine, Corn Wine, Kaoliang Spirits, Gegen Wine, and Snake Wine. Once you've tasted their wines, you will never forget the unique taste.

Jiangya Hot Spring: Located at Jiangya Town, northwest of Cili County, Jiangya Hot Spring is only 20 minutes drive to Wulingyuan Scenic Area. With the construction style of antique graden, Jiangya Hot Spring is boasting more than 20 distinctive open-air or indoor hot spring pools. Jiangya Hot Sring is about 54’C of year round. Delected by experts, the hot spring water is rich in many minerals and trace elements beneficial to human health. It has not only special effects to nerve pain, rheumatism and other diseases, but also other heath effects to physical fitness,skin beauty, sedative given shock, aging .etc.

Jiangya Hot Spring Resort: Jiangya Hot Spring Resort is a 3-Star complex incomportanting service of hotspring holidays,recreations,heath presering,beauty build-up and commercial events. It is invested by Hunan Lishui River Basin Water Resources & Hydropower Development Company . The Resort is completed with 180 various kind of rooms, conference halls, entertainment rooms, restaurant, as well as sorts of fithness facilities accommodating all kinds of visitors andgiving memorable vacations to dignitaries and tourists from worldwide.Now the Resort has become the favorite attraction for the tropical holiday scenic spot of Zhangjiajie.

China Giant Salamander Biological Science Museum is a popular science tourism and cultural museum built by Zhangjiajie (China)Jinchi Giant Salamander Biotechnology Co., Ltd, it is a world's first science and technology museum integrating the knowledge, interaction, scientific research and artistry, and it covers an area of 5000m2. Giant Salamander Biological Science Museum makes full use of the modern smart technology and invested enormous amount of capital to show the ancient and mysterious survival legend of giant salamander—rare species remained up to the present, like dinosaur, and the entire geological evolution of Zhangjiajie World Geopark intuitively to the tourists.

The museum has the exhibition areas of every phenomenon on biology, star-studded salamanders, ice crystal, ancient times sealing stamp, giant salamander homeland, exploring giant salamander and 4D cinema, and each exhibition area is exhibited through new media art, such as acoustics, lighting and electron, as well as virtual image and allotypic projection. Here, you may contact with the earliest amphibians with biggest body type existed in earth - giant salamander, observe and feel their mystique and mystery; even you can enjoy the very impressive power and prestige as well as domineering of ancient times biology in “Jurassic Park”; and also you can experience the giant salamander homeland at close range—Zhangjiajie’s wondrous landscapes, deep cave and dense forest, deep valley and dangerous road, twitters and fragrance; interestingly, you may enter the 4D cinema to have the love journey together with salamander and mermaid.

China Giant Salamander Biological Science Museum makes full use of the modern science and technology as well as human intelligence to entirely show the life legend and biological mystery of Zhangjiajie’s swift changes to you, and you can see Zhangjiajie by aeonian time precipitation in 60 minutes. It is the best choice for children.

The core scenic area of Baofeng Lake covers the whole lake surface which is 2.5 kilometers in length, with a width of 200m to 1000m, and an average depth of 72m. It is the only scenic area with the water as its scenes in the area of Wulingyuan World Natural Heritage. Baofeng Lake is located among the mountains, receiving natural waters all over the mountains. The water is pure and clean, free of pollution, thus it is awarded as “Holy Lake”. Around the lake stand dozens of cliff and steep sandstone mountains. If one boats to the center of the lake, one can feast one’s eyes with the reflection of tress and peaks over the mirror-like lake surface that forms a splendid and wonderful landscape painting with charm and artistic conception. There are over twenty scenic spots including One-line-sky, Plank Road over the Clouds, Yingwozhai, and South Sea and so on. It is especially famous for Baofeng Waterfall which falls from a height of over one hundred meters and hangs down the mountain as a white curtain, as sound as the thunders. It was taken as the natural performance set of Zhangjiajie International Festival of Forest Protection and appeared for several times on CCTV and Hunan TV, which made it one of the ideal places for visitors home and abroad. At present, it is the show place of “Soul of Wulin-TIMA God Song”.

Tianmen Mountain Cableway

The cableway sends tourists from the foot of the Tianmen moutain straightly to the top Tianmen cave , with the length of 7455 meters. You can enjoy the sceneries all the way in the cable, just like flying towards the sky, which gives it the reputation worldwide as " the First -class mobile sightseeing gallery in the air" 

the Paratise is within reach, only one step in between