Facts about: Zhangjiajie National Forest Park
- Zhangjiajie National Forest Park was the inspiration for the magical ‘floating peaks’ in James Cameron’s film Avatar.
- This is the first authorized national forest park in China.
- It covers an area of 11,900 acres.
- The park features tall peaks, beautiful waterfalls, amazing fauna and flora and unpredictable climate.
- The most notable geographic features of the park are the pillar-like peaks that are seen throughout the park.
- Tourists can now join a ‘Magical tour to Avatar-Pandora’ or a ‘Miracle tour to Avatar’s floating mountain,’ the Zhangjiajie part of China International Travel Service Corp said on its website.
- About 98% of the area is covered with vegetation. There are 720 species of the 102 families.
- One of the park’s sandstone pillars, the 1,080 m Southern Sky Column, had been officially renamed “Avatar Hallelujah Mountain”
- There are more than 149 kinds of animals in the park.
- Main attraction spots include: Back Garden, Tianmen Mountain and the First Bridge under the Sun.
One of the park's standfstones pillars, the 1080 meters high, had been renamned "Avatar Hallelujah Mountain". Photographs from Zhangjiajie inspired the floating Hallelujah Montains seen in the film.The film's director and production designers said that they drew inspireation for the floating rocks from mountains from around the world, inmcluding those in Zhangjiajie.