Zhangjiajie

Is a unique national forest park located in Zhangjiajie City in Hunan Province in the People’s Republic of China. In 1982, the park was recognized as the China’s first national forest park with an area of 11,900 acres.

Zhangjiajie in China become popular in foreign travelers’ eyes after the movie Avatar. Zhangjiajie National park is located in the northwest of Hunan Province, over 1,000 kilometers from both Shanghai and Beijing.

The Wulingyuan peak forest landform in Zhangjiajie represents a unique geomorphic and physic geographical feature. The peak forest was developed in Devonian Taiyunguan and Huangjiadeng formations, with a distribution area of 86km2. It is a world-rare and unique landform formed in a special tectonic position and under particular conditions of neotectonics and exogenous processes. More than 3,000 rock peaks aloft within the area, of which 1,000 peaks exceed 200m in height, and Jinbianyan exceeds even 350m.