As Dominic has said previously: "Jamais deux sans trois", so, we visited our 3rd set of mountains for this trip to China.
Similar to Huangshan, the Zhangjiajie mountain claims to be part of the inspiration for James Cameron's movie "Avatar". You could see a bit of resemblance in Huangshan, and you can definitely see it even more here…. the scenery is stunning.
The first day involved a LOT of stairs again (up and down)… Sharon did an amazing job keeping up! We were all so proud of her - Good Job Mom!! With the time crunch at the end, the stairs down really started to bare its weight on everyone's knees. Mom got to test-drive the sedan chairs down that last little stretch :)
On our second day we encountered a bit of rain but since we visited the valley, it didn't have a huge impact other than to provide some mystic mountain cloud scenery for us to enjoy.
We also encountered a few dozen monkeys…..they were a bit aggressive toward those who left their bags of food on the ground.
One last note about the visit: we are now tagged in the Chinese central database…. we had to give our thumbprints to the park in order to enter…..interesting.
