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Yongding District, Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, China
Natural wonder of Tianmen Cave-Door to Heaven, Trilling Glass Skywalk, Winding Road up the Mountain with 99 Bends
Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park, located 8 kilometers from Zhangjiajie city center, is the highest mountain in Zhangjiajie, with the main peak of 1518.6 meters (4982.3 feet) high. The natural wonder-Tianmen Cave, means door to the heaven in Chinese. The comparative plat mountain top, the well-preserved original forest, the rare plants and species, the natural bonsai in everywhere form into a splendid picture. People entitle this mountain as the most beautiful flower garden in the sky and the fairy land in the boundary of heaven.
For a long time, Mount Tianmen not only attracted attention because of its miraculous and unique geographic landform and unparalleled natural landscape, but it also became well-known for its profound cultural connotations and famous colorful humanistic site.
Tianmen Mountain Cableway
Tianmen Mountain Cable Car is the longest passenger cableway in the world with a length of 7200 meters (23,622 feet) and a height gap of 1277 meters (4,190 feet).
It is running at a speed of 6m / s, with a maximum capacity of 1000 passengers per hour, one way, and a biggest gradient of 38 degrees.
Tianmen Mountain Cableway in Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park
Tianmen Cave
Tianmen cave is the most typical attraction in Tianmen Mountain, which looks like a gate to the sky. With an altitude of 1,300 meters, Tianmen Cave is the only attraction that is not located on the top of the Tianmen Mountain. It is known as the highest natural cave crossing the mountain in the world.
The Winding Road Up the Mountain with 99 Bends
The winding road up the Tianmen Mountain heading to Tianmen Cave is also called Road to Heaven, which happens to have 99 bends. And 99 is a good and lucky number in China. It is a spectacular road at Tianmen Mountain.
Ghost-Valley Skywalk
The Ghost-valley Skywalk is the attraction that you must experience in Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park. It is named so because it is located up the Ghost-Valley Cave. The Ghost-Valley Skywalk is 1,600 meters long, whose average elevation is 1,400 meters. Walking on the Glass Skywalk fixed into the cliffs is trilling and exciting, which is a challenge to the tourists.
Tianmen Mountain Temple was first built in the Tang Dynasty as a center of Buddhism in the area of western Hunan.The present Tian Men Mountain Temple is rebuilt on the basis of the original site with a plot area of more than 10,000 sqm. It adopts an official style of the Qing Dynasty and the buildings in the Temple compare well with the famous classical houses at home. The Temple is located in the mountain hollow with a broad vision. If one gazes into the southeast, all the hills seem to be so small that the Temple is really like an overlord.
Tianmen Mountain Academy
Tianmen Mountain Academy was built in 1303, the seventh year of the Dade Period in Yuan Dynasty. It was destroyed in a battle in 1352. The present Academy is newly built on the original site. It is a cultural holy place of Mount Tianmen.
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