Zhangjiajie

Author: Sun Jianhua
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Publish Date: 2003-02-01
Features: Zhangjiajie City is located in the northwest of Hunan Province, China, and administers Wulingyuan District, Yongding District, Cili County, and Sangzhi County, covering an area of 9,563 square kilometers with a population of over 1.5 million. It is a tourist hotspot with beautiful, unique, and original natural landscapes, as well as a rich cultural heritage of ethnic minorities. The core scenic area of Zhangjiajie City, Wulingyuan Scenic Area, includes Zhangjiajie National Park, Suoxiuyu Nature Reserve, Tianzishan Nature Reserve, and Yangjiajie Scenic Area, covering an area of 2,640 square kilometers. About 380 million years ago, this area was still an ocean, but due to tectonic movements, quartz sandstone formed. With the Yanshan Movement and the erosion and collapse caused by water flow, the land was shaped into a karst landscape of peaks and gorges. Thousands of peaks rise, ten thousand stones stand tall, with the craftsmanship of nature. Zhangjiajie's unique rock peaks, dense vegetation, primitive ecology, clear streams and waterfalls, and well-developed cave systems are hailed as a labyrinth of nature and an incredible geological monument on Earth. Original nature, green rarity. To have the fortune to visit Zhangjiajie is to live a free and unrestrained life.