Best Traditional Chinese Hunan Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan UNESCO 1992 Avatar Mountains Fenghuang Changsha Mao and Hunan Deep Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: China travel | Asia destinations Best Traditional Chinese Hunan Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan UNESCO 1992 Avatar Mountains Fenghuang Changsha Mao and Hunan Deep Heritage Tour Destinations TL;DR Hunan Province - 66 million people across 211,800 square kilometres south of the Yangtze - is the home of China's strangest landscape and one of its most consequential political biographies. The Wulingyuan Scenic Area at Zhangjiajie , inscribed by UNESCO in 1992, holds more than 3,103 sandstone pillars over 200 metres tall and supplied the visual reference for the floating Hallelujah Mountains of Avatar (2009). The province also gave the world Mao Zedong, born in Shaoshan on 26 December 1893, and the 1,300-year-old Tujia and Miao river town of Fenghuang . Major destinations: Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan UNESCO , Tianmen Mountain , Fenghuang Ancient Town , Changsha and Yuelu Academy , Shaoshan , Hengshan . Plan a 7-10 day trip. This is one of the most distinctive Chinese natura...