We arrived in Zhangjiajie pretty late and tried to figure out the light switches.

One funny thing about breakfast at the hotel was a woman frying eggs outside and setting plates through the window.

The passes to Zhangjiajie National Forest Park were pretty expensive (245 RMB ~40 USD)  and ensure we didn’t transfer them, they were paired with our thumbprint. We also had to show them our passports. Like Zion National Park, they have shuttle busses to get tourists to the various areas. Our first stop was the Golden Whip Brook. Our first encounters with the monkeys. The mountains here are famous for being the mountains in Avatar (the movie).

Some bumpy riding in the little tan busses over rough road was kind of crazy.

Ate lunch at an interesting restaurant. We had battered and fried tiny fish, giant salamander soup with tofu, misc other.

After lunch we walked to another park entrance and took a purple bus to the cable car station. Nice ride up between some of the mountains. Walked around and got some great views.

Also fed some monkeys. Some got aggressive.

A cable car and three busses later we made it to the Grand Canyon Glass Bridge-just before closing. We had to wear booties over our shoes.

Something crazy for dinner. It looked too much like teeth for me to eat.

The next day we visited Tianmen Shan. It has the longest cable car ride. Check out the ladder on the face of the cliff.

They have several walkways that are along the cliff face, including another glass walkway.

The have a transmountain escalator, which is twelve long escalators that can take people down (or up) through the mountain from the top (where the cable car goes) to the famous hole in the mountain–Heavenly Gate Tianmen. It’s huge.

Then we got to walk down 999 stairs, lots of twitchy legs at the bottom.

We rode a teal park bus down the windy road–99 curves and switchbacks. The driver went fast and we were sliding all over the seats. Then we took a different teal bus back to cable car station and the tour bus to lunch.

Then on to train station for another sleeper train. I’m on the top bunk this time. The students tried to all fit in one compartment.

We arrived at Liuzhou on our way to Guilin. We had to take a bus between train stations in Liuzhou at 5 am.