Zhangjiajie national forest park

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Getting to this place isn't easy, either. I wish I could tell you how tired my legs were and still are. I added about another 1/4 inch of calf muscle in the last week. Climbing these spires with all my equipment is not cake walk. I climbed to the top three times in my hikes, and my first day had about 10km of unforgettable pain. 10km is one thing. 10km that involves these kinds of verticals is another thing. I also climbed one of these at night. Alone. That was exciting. I don't know if…

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Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, situated in the Hunan province, is a surreal landscape that inspired the mythical world of Pandora in James Cameron's blockbuster film

Zhangjiajie China. A tour of the National Forest Park and scenery that inspired Avatar.

Tips for visiting Zhangjiajie - National Forest Park: take the cable car up to Tianzi Shan. Take the public bus (around 40 mins with a… | Instagram

Films often inspire my travels. I saw “Avatar” when it came out in 2009. Despite the obvious inspiration in the film, that wasn’t what moved me to visit China’s floating spires at Zhangjiajie National Forest Park. It was actually another film, a documentary, about BASE jumpers. BASE jumpers are those crazy people in squirrel suits who jump off of tall buildings and mountains. In the film “Wingmen“, three men jump off Tianmen Mountain, which is also in Zhangjiajie, China. I visited both…

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Tall stone towers in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, China | Photo by phototravelnomads (IG)