Zhangjiajie- Day 1

We woke up at 7am local time, which I thought was pretty good that we slept a good 6 hours during night time on local time!  We had an awesome breakfast at our hotel, and were ready to go for our first day of touring the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park.  It has been rainy here, so it was already drizzly and hazy on the ground.  Of course, this only intensified as we got higher and higher into the mountains. 

 

Above is the entrance to the park.

 After entering the park, you take a bus ride for about ten minutes to the cable car.   The cable car was about 8 minutes, and I survived!!  It wasn't the highest or longest, which I'm actually not sure I could even handle at this time, but we had some great views!  After that, we ended up taking a few more buses, and visiting a few more areas within the park.  We had some great shots in some areas, but in others, it was too foggy/cloudy because of the rain.  Big bummer!  It was still so awesome though!

  Yeah that elevator...we were on it!

 Good to know that if you are the immediate family member of a martyr, that your ride on the elevator is discounted :)

 

Hallelujah Mountain, used in filming Avatar

 

The Mister showing off a famous view...of clouds today, of course :)

 And no, you can never get away from McDonald's.  This is at the top of the mountain.

So that was pretty much our day.  Tomorrow we will be going to some local caves and of course doing whatever else our guide decides that we should do!  Only 3 more sleeps until we get our arms around our little man!!!!