Zhangjiajie (Avatar Hallelujah Mountains)

I think we all remember the award winning movie Avatar and we all enjoyed it.Can you remember the hallelujah mountains in Avatar? Did you know that it was a real mountain range which inspired Avatar's floating peaks??Here it is,the real time hallelujah mountains.

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It is situated in China.
It's a unique natural forest park located in zhangjiajie city in Northern Hunan province.Zhangjiajie national park is the 1st national forest park in China and also it's a world heritage.

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The most special thing about this park is the pillar like formations which we will be able to see throughout the park.And they are a result of physical erosion,not chemical.There are about 3000 mountain peaks in Zhangjiajie.

There are about 500 tree species including dawn redwood,believed extinct till it was re-identified in 1948.And also there are dove trees which are considered as living fossils as it survived during the glacier of the fourth period,which means about 2.5 million years ago.

https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhangjiajie

Like every other place in China,Zingjiajie also has a legend behind it.It is said that Zhang Liang,a strategist lived in Zingjiajie after leaving the imperial court.And he lived there in fear that the emperor will kill him in suspicion that he might rebel against him.So he selected this mountain range as his hiding place and eventually he became a hermit and he was also buried here after dying.It is believed that his descendants also lived here and that is how it became Zingjiajie.Zhang is from his surname and jia means family,jie means homeland or border.

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Zhangjiajie National Park has become a must see place among the tourists and 30,410,000 tourists had visited Zhangjiajie park in 2011.If you are thinking about visiting China,then here is your chance to visit the real time hallelujah mountains. :)

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