Zhangjiajie is located in the northwest of Hunan Province, bordering Hefeng County of Hubei Province in the north. The total area is 95 18 square kilometers. The total population is 6.5438+0.6 million, and ethnic minorities, mainly Tujia and Bai, account for about two-thirds of the total population. The city has jurisdiction over 2 municipal districts and 2 counties. Yongding county people's government. Zhangjiajie, a prefecture-level city in Hunan Province, China, is located in the northwest of Hunan Province, in the middle and upper reaches of Lishui River, and in the hinterland of Wuling Mountain. It is one of the most important tourist cities in China. 1In September 1982, Zhangjiajie became the first national forest park in China.1In August 1988, Wulingyuan was included in the second batch of 40 national key scenic spots. 65438-0992 Wulingyuan Natural Scenic Area, which consists of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, Suoxiyu Scenic Area and Tianzi Mountain Scenic Area, was listed in the World Natural Heritage List by UNESCO. Free travel in Zhangjiajie is a new tourism model in Zhangjiajie. Compared with the traditional group tour mode, tourists can freely arrange their itinerary according to their own preferences, let the free travel club arrange accommodation and transportation, and play in the scenic spot by themselves, without following the rhythm of the public or following the arrangement of the tour guide. There is no so-called "hidden consumption", which is more suitable for tourists' pure play. Zhangjiajie is more free and convenient, the schedule can be adjusted at will, and all the sightseeing items on the itinerary can be yours. Because there are no shopping and self-funded projects, tourists can spend their money on the "cutting edge" of free travel and play as much as they want. 1. Zhangjiajie Free Travel Scenic Features: 1: In spring, the mountains are full of vitality, birds and flowers are fragrant, and even the stone pillars are full of green life. It's all the sound of kingfishers accompanied by a strong forest breath, which will make you feel relaxed and breathe smoothly immediately! 2. In summer, the temperature is right, which is really an ideal world for you to escape from the summer. There are sweet throat-moistening mountain springs, crisp bird songs, bright mountain flowers and their fragrance everywhere. In the morning, when you step into the forest path. What suddenly seeped into my heart was a fresh feeling that all the cells in my body were awakened at this moment. At noon, somewhere else, you may all think it's the last time you want to go out. But here, even if the sun shines in the sky. You don't have to worry about anything, because the trees in the forest hold up a green umbrella for you, which is accompanied by the singing of birds. Think about how comfortable it is to walk on this tree-lined path! In the evening, standing on a high hill. Facing the place where the sun goes down, the face is greeted by a red glow. "The mountains are all red and the forests are all dyed" has reached the extreme here! Autumn is full of red leaves and dead trees. It looks like a mountain full of depression, but in fact it is the most beautiful time. Fruitful, mountain-full wild fruits: kiwi, chestnut, wild hawthorn, wild persimmon, wild litchi, really can be described as a "full banquet." Maybe what you see in other places is a little yellow leaves and bare branches, but what you see here in Shifeng is a "green life" full of vitality. Why? Let me give you a slow way! In winter, if you are lucky enough to encounter snowy weather, peaks, Woods and houses will be immediately covered with silver makeup endowed by nature. The rolling mountains in the distance are like a silver snake winding from your eyes to the distance. "Mountain dancing silver snake" brings you a mysterious feeling. Second, the difference between group tour and self-help tour: 1, passive: because group tour needs to follow the unified route formulated by the travel agency and tourists need to follow the unified itinerary, tourists are passive in grasping the time and scenic spots, and it is difficult to exert their subjectivity. Solution: Zhangjiajie Free Wind Club offers semi-self-guided tours and full-self-guided tours to tailor the most suitable tour routes, accommodation standards and catering standards for you, select or add some scenic spots, and arrange the time in a more flexible way. We will design a satisfactory route for you according to your needs. 2. Unequal treatment: Because there are many individual groups, most of them don't know each other. Every tourist's background, experience, personality, hobbies and temperament are different, and they often suffer or think they will be treated unfairly, such as the front and back seats, the attitude of the tour guide and the way of speaking. Solution: First of all, we must admit that a tour guide must be considerate and calm when facing many tourists. Secondly, Zhangjiajie Free Wind Club strictly controls the number of people in each team (each team does not exceed 10) to reduce the workload of tour guides and better serve tourists. 3. Transfer the tour group: First of all, all tour groups starting from the origin are now handed over to the destination travel agency for operation. The tour group from the origin has mastered the tourist resources, and in order to make a profit, try to lower the price of the destination travel agency. In order to win customers, the ground agency robbed the group at a loss, and then passed the risk on to the tour guide. In order to make up for the loss, the tour guide thinks about how to earn more money from the guests all day, playing tricks and doing whatever it takes. Although now the travel society has indicated several points in the itinerary and so on. However, after you really come, the tour guide will not let you get what you want. Even if they don't enter the store, they will drag tourists to add some money at their own expense. After a trip, the money spent is far greater than the cost of reporting to the group. Therefore, no matter how much money the guests give to the tour group, the land agency in Zhangjiajie has no profit after coming to Zhangjiajie. Of course, they are also forced by tour guides to buy high-quality and high-priced goods and go to second-rate attractions that are not worth seeing at their own expense. If you don't go, hehe, sorry, the smiling face of the tour guide is gone, the air conditioner of the driver is turned off, and tourists are not in the mood to travel. Moreover, because the package travel agency is not a local travel agency in Zhangjiajie, many specific situations and information in Zhangjiajie are not timely or simply understood, which leads to the fact that the propaganda is inconsistent with the facts. The feeling of tourists visiting is not what the salesman of the package travel agency said at all. The tourist's travel contract is signed with the package travel agency, and the executor is the destination travel agency and the destination tour guide. There will inevitably be many mistakes in the middle, and it is impossible for tourists to take other trips outside the contract after arriving at their destination. Contract changes are also very troublesome. This is what happened to most tourists after they chose the travel agency for convenience. It is precisely because of many restrictions on joining tour groups at the starting point that the way for guests to choose travel agencies directly at their tourist destinations is very popular. Because I am free to come to Zhangjiajie without any restrictions, as long as I choose the right time, make a good budget and confirm with the local travel agency, I can easily get it done. Compared with other scenic spots in China, Zhangjiajie has its own advantages, that is, it is absolutely forbidden to visit the most attractive scenic spots in Zhangjiajie, such as Tianbofu, Wulongzhai, Daguan Platform, Xianrenqiao, Tian Zi and other elite scenic spots in Yang Jiajie. Do you believe that those friends who took part in the tour can recall whether they have been to these places? Secondly, participating in individual packages will inevitably lead to the problem of mutual transit between travel agencies, which makes many tourists feel uncomfortable. Reason: Quite simply, unity is strength. It is difficult for a travel agency to support the task of organizing tourism alone, especially in a big tourist province like Hunan and Guangxi, where there are so many and rich tourist routes, and the recognized status quo of China travel agencies: scattered, weak and small, it may be difficult for a travel agency to organize tourism completely independently. It is impossible for tourists to find a travel agency that can contract out price tours alone, and they need to subcontract between travel agencies. Solution: Zhangjiajie Free Wind Club solemnly promises to "form a group with one person to ensure the quality of word-of-mouth tourism", and all the guests who participated in our self-help tour were sent by ourselves independently. If you want to know, find a free self-help tour in Zhangjiajie! If you want to know anything, ask Zhang Rufeng! We will warmly welcome you to Zhangjiajie for sightseeing, and we will do our best to make you have a good time! Rest assured to eat! Enjoy your stay! 3. How to prevent yourself from being cheated on the way to Zhangjiajie? If you come to Zhangjiajie by train, there will often be some people in uniform (mostly pretending), or soliciting customers on the trains to Zhangjiajie, Zhangjiajie Railway Station and Zhangjiajie Airport in the name of a travel agency. They will ask you to join their travel agency, or provide you with accommodation, tour guides, cars and other services. At this time, you should keep a clear head and don't associate with them easily (because they are either expensive or have poor service quality, and often dump customers. As long as you discuss with him, you will always be pestered and won't be received by others until you join them in despair. Some people have black backgrounds. As long as they know that you are traveling in Zhangjiajie, they will be entangled with you. After getting off the bus, they will follow and stop the travel agency you contacted to pick you up! If you don't want to make your mood worse, the only way is not to let them know that you are traveling in Zhangjiajie. If you come to Zhangjiajie by car, the first thing for those soliciting is to get on your car before you arrive at the scenic spot. After getting on the bus, they tried their best to publicize and brag about themselves, as if the technology was sky-high, and all the tourism links and departments in Zhangjiajie knew that choosing them could be super affordable and so on. If their efforts don't work in front of smart guests, they will post money to help you book a room. (For example, a four-star hotel room at the bottom of 280 yuan, they may 160 yuan buy it for you. In this super affordable situation, you must not be indifferent, and then as soon as you enter the room, they will pester you, bombard you with sales skills and force you to join their team. This kind of behavior has little money loss, and more importantly, it disturbs tourists' interest in tourism and the normal tourism market order in Zhangjiajie. For the above situation, friends who drive by car should be well aware. Anyone, including the traffic police, any government official, if he asks to get in your car, or asks you to help take someone to Zhangjiajie or Wulingyuan, it must be a wild horse who changes his identity and pulls you into the underworld. If you don't want to get into trouble, you should just refuse. If someone calls you enthusiastically, you must be indifferent, just like "Don't talk to strangers" in TV series. Fourth, the tourist trap behind Zhangjiajie: When you come by train, you will pass a huge square as soon as you get out of the train station. See the taxi in the square and greet you warmly. Tell you, it's 28 kilometers from Zhangjiajie downtown to Forest Park, and some taxis will warmly welcome you. Do you think it's too cheap to go from Zhangjiajie downtown to Forest Park for only 20 yuan? The driver will find an excuse to pick someone up in the forest park and pick you up by the way. If you really believe you are lucky, you won't be lucky to travel to Zhangjiajie in the next few days, because they will lobby you to join a travel agency in the car, don't you want to? Hehe, it happens from time to time to drop off passengers in the middle. Let's find a place to rest in the city first. V. How to get to the scenic spot 1 after arriving in Zhangjiajie. Since the opening of Chang-Zhang Expressway in 2007, go on road trip in Zhangjiajie has become very convenient. Basically, there are expressways all over the country, but Changsha takes Chang-Chang Expressway for two hours and then Chang-Zhang Expressway for two hours, making a total of four hours. After arriving in Zhangjiajie, you can park your car in a safe parking lot in the city, because private cars are not allowed in Zhangjiajie scenic area. If you drive directly to the entrance of the scenic spot, you need to go back, because the scenic spot is very large. Usually, the entrance of the forest park scenic spot enters the mountain and comes out from Wulingyuan after swimming. The entrance into the mountain is different from the entrance down the mountain. In addition, the parking fee at the entrance of the scenic spot is also quite high, about 50 yuan/vehicle a day and a night. Only 20 yuan/car is needed in the urban area, and there are many cars from the bus station in the urban area to the scenic spot, so it is very convenient to go by car. 2. The railway station is now changed to South Station, and the bus station is moved to one side of the railway station (get off and turn left 1 minute), which brings convenience to the majority of passengers. After leaving the station, some people with or without uniforms will recommend you a few days' itinerary with loudspeakers. At this time, you don't have to pay attention to them. Once you have a few questions to ask them, you will be surrounded by them, because they are the so-called travel agencies hanging near the railway station. There is a direct bus to downtown in the square on the right outside the exit. Bus No.5 and No.6 all take 1 yuan to downtown (22: 00-06: 00 in 2 yuan). At the bus station, change to the bus to the scenic spot and the bus to the forest park 10 yuan, which takes 35-40 minutes. It takes 12 yuan to get to Wulingyuan, and the time is also 35-40 minutes. After arriving at Wulingyuan, take a taxi to 5 yuan, go to the sign gate (that is, the ticket office there) or take the No.3 bus to the sign gate. Bus to Tianzishan Ticket Station 13 yuan/person, time 1.5 hours. Then you can take the bus directly to the top of the mountain in the scenic spot without spending money on climbing the mountain by cableway. The above shuttle bus from the bus station to the scenic spot runs every minute 10, and only the shuttle bus to the Tianzishan ticket office runs every half hour. 3. After getting off the plane at the airport, there are 4 buses outside the airport to the city, 1 yuan, but there are not many flights. (8: 00- 18: 00) If you can't wait for the bus, take a taxi to the downtown area between 20 and 30 yuan. If you want 20 yuan to get it done, you'd better turn right after leaving the airport and walk 400 meters to the airport gate. There will be many taxis. Only 20 yuan, 30 taxis at the airport, because of the parking fee, so it is very expensive. That depends on your bargaining power! The bus stop is on the left side of the railway station exit. After leaving the station, some people with uniforms or without uniforms and loudspeakers will recommend you a few days' trip. At this time, you don't have to pay attention to them. Once you want to ask them a few questions, you will be surrounded by them, because they are the so-called travel agencies hanging near the railway station. At this time, the best way is to go directly to the new bus station on the left outside the exit, and then change to the bus to the scenic spot at the bus station. It takes one person 10 yuan to get to the forest park, and the time is 35-40 minutes. It takes 12 yuan to get to Wulingyuan, and the time is also 35-40 minutes. After arriving at Wulingyuan, take a taxi to 5 yuan, go to the sign gate (that is, the ticket office there) or take the No.3 bus to the sign gate. Bus to Tianzishan Ticket Station 13 yuan/person, time 1.5 hours. Then you can take the bus directly to the top of the mountain in the scenic spot without spending money on climbing the mountain by cableway. The above shuttle bus from the bus station to the scenic spot runs every minute 10, and only the shuttle bus to the Tianzishan ticket office runs every half hour. Special reminder: you must pay attention to thieves when you take the bus! ! A comprehensive introduction of eating, living, traveling and playing in Zhangjiajie. 1. Eating in Zhangjiajie: The favorite thing for people who travel by themselves is to taste local snacks because they have plenty of time, which is why most of them like to travel by themselves now. I believe the following is the favorite of donkey friends ... 1. Master Hu's three pots: the special dish of Zhangjiajie-three pots, which is actually a very convenient dry pot, made of three main ingredients and stewed in hot pot without soup. I think the "Master Hu's three pots" near Sanjiaoping tastes good, and 25 yuan has one (three pots). It is suggested to stew rice rolls, dried walnuts and Xiangxi bacon together, and order a sour radish while eating, which is crisp and sour. Really the best! 2. Beef with silver beans and sauerkraut: It's hard to find. Walk in the alley opposite the aviation school, adjacent to the pedestrian street. The building on the corner is a big Internet cafe called Songzhumei, beige, and the building on the other side is a three-story pedestrian street. Go in and walk from here. It is located in the middle of this alley. There is a sign. His beef with sauerkraut is very famous, and the mutton is very good. Mutton tastes like pork. I don't know whether he is praised or belittled. 3. Afu Fish Village: Friends who like to eat fish can feast their eyes. Located at the intersection, walk for 2 minutes to the old intersection on the left. Now that the fish is cooked, there are many ways to do it, and the dining environment is good. There are many delicious places in BBK supermarket street! There is also a supper at night, at the intersection of KFC, which is a street, and there are plenty of snacks at night! 2. Living in Zhangjiajie: Before 200 1, there were many hotels in Zhangjiajie Scenic Area. At that time, tourists who came to play lived in scenic spots, because they saved time and didn't have to go up and down the mountain to waste time, and spent money on ropeways and ladders. And living on the top of the mountain in the scenic spot, the air is fresh. Don't have experience! However, since 200 1 Premier Zhu came, he found that there were too many people living on the mountain, which destroyed the natural ecological environment. A large-scale hotel demolition has been carried out, so there are not many places to stay on the mountain now, leaving only a small number of beds for tourists to stay. It is difficult for people to get a room because of the shortage of beds on the mountain. At present, most travel agencies suggest staying in hotels in Wulingyuan Town at the foot of the mountain, which undoubtedly brings inconvenience to the trip. Many scenic spots have to be reduced because it takes too much time to go back and forth into the mountains. And because everyone lives there, the time for tourists to enter and leave the mountain is similar sooner or later, and the itinerary is similar. Therefore, it often takes a long time to get in and out of the mountain and wait for the green card of the scenic spot, and you have to queue up for the cableway to play. So now most self-help tourists choose to live in the mountains. Although there is no luxury under the mountain, it is of great benefit to the scenic spots. Watch the sunrise and sunset, experience the life of Tujia aborigines and get in touch with nature. In addition, because we don't need to go up and down the mountain to waste time, we need to see many scenic spots, such as Yuanjiajie, Yang Jiajie, Wulongzhai, Daguan Platform, Xianren Bridge, old house tour, sky pastoral, magic party and so on, which are not available to regular tour groups in our society. In fact, these scenic spots are beautiful (places that guests have been to are strongly recommended by various forums), but they have to give up just because regular clubs live outside the scenic spots. In short, if you want to see more scenic spots, it is the best choice to recommend you to live in the mountains. The following is the accommodation in urban areas and scenic spots: (1) Accommodation in Zhangjiajie: Because the public security in urban areas is not as good as that in scenic spots, it is better to stay in hotels for safety reasons. The cost will be higher. Two-star double standard is around 80- 120 yuan, and Samsung is around 160 to 220 yuan. In the urban area, the most concentrated hotels are on Renmin Road, close to the city center. Friends had better choose to live near the city center, because it is more convenient to go to scenic spots or return. "I hereby recommend a forest hotel with a price of 100 yuan", which is the same level as Samsung and very convenient in the city center. (2) Although the hotels on the mountain in Zhangjiajie Scenic Area are not as luxurious as those outside the scenic area, living on the mountain can save a lot of time and money and avoid going back and forth to the scenic area. Moreover, tickets for scenic spots are valid for two days, which means that if you live outside the scenic spot, you only have two days to see the scenery, but no matter how long you live and play in the scenic spot, no one will interfere with you (because you don't check the tickets when you leave the scenic spot). At present, hotels in the scenic spot are located in Yang Jiajie, Yuanjiajie and Daguan Platform. The hotels in Yang Jiajie and Yuanjiajie were first built, but they don't look so pleasing to the eye and the facilities inside are old. The hotel with better conditions is located in Lilac Tree Village, Daguan Platform. In 2006, there were no hotels. Basically, they were just built in 2007 and 2008, and the facilities are relatively new. But these three places are convenient for you to play no matter where you live. They are not far apart, and there are free eco-cars in the scenic spot. You can go out and stop at the intersection to play any scenic spot. 3. Zhangjiajie Tour-Admission Mode: (1), take a bus from Zhangjiajie Bus Station to Tianzishan Ticket Station (fare 13 yuan), and then take a bus directly from Tianzishan Ticket Station to the top of Tianzishan. The whole journey takes about 2 hours. This plan can save more than 50 yuan of elevator or ropeway expenses, or save more than 8,000 steps and save a lot of physical strength. Then start sightseeing. Finally, take the ticket station in the forest park and leave the park. (2) Zhangjiajie Bus Station to Zhangjiajie Forest Park, ticket 10 yuan/person. Tickets are 248 yuan per person. Students under the age of 24 can buy discount tickets for each person 163 yuan with a valid student ID card. People who hold student cards or press cards of military officers or military academies at or above the provincial level and people over 70 years old can enter the park free of charge. Moreover, all friends who have bought discount tickets and free tickets can buy discount tickets by taking ropeways, elevators, sightseeing trains and other tourist equipment in the scenic spot! You can choose some suitable sightseeing routes after entering the park. (Please continue to look down for the specific route introduction) Finally, take the sign door of Wulingyuan to leave the garden. (3) You can also take a bus from Zhangjiajie Bus Station to Wulingyuan Bus Station, then take a taxi (5 yuan) there to Wulingyuan's ticket office, then buy tickets to enter the park, and finally leave the park from the ticket office of Forest Park. Suggest a free trip to Zhangjiajie. How to plan your own trip to Zhangjiajie? Day 1: Through the maze of the peak forest, Jin Bianxi and Yuan Jiajie (the prototype of Avatar Peak) can add old houses. In the morning, tour guides and drivers pick up tourists at airports or stations and hotels, and then take air-conditioned tour buses (you can enjoy the rural scenery of Xiangxi for 40 minutes along the way). After that, you can directly enter the scenic spot from the ticket office of Forest Park (the ticket price includes 248 yuan). Travel around the "world's most beautiful canyon"-Jin Bianxi scenic spot on foot (including Guanyin pine nuts, pig's wife, eagle whip protection, mountain rescue, location shooting on the journey to the west, longevity spring, meeting thousands of miles, etc.). After Jin Bianxi, there are two ways to visit Yuanjiajie scenic spot on the top of the mountain (one is to walk from Luanshipo in Jin Bianxi to Yuanjiajie, the other is to take an eco-car from Shuihuanmen 4 to Bailong elevator, and then take the world. Afternoon: After lunch, visit Yuanjiajie Scenic Spot, the core of the world natural heritage (including Harry in the movie Avatar). Yuanjiajie is one of the strangest and most spectacular scenic spots on the top of Zhangjiajie Forest Park, which is better than Huangshizhai and Tianzi Mountain ... Then it takes about 20 minutes by eco-car to get to the Daguan platform. Those with good physical strength can take the tour guide to the undeveloped scenic spot-Laowuchang Scenic Spot, and see the original ecological air country and magic convention. Su Jing district. The next day: the majestic Wulongzhai in Yang Jiajie, the incomparably beautiful Tian Zi and Shili Gallery. Morning: Get up in the morning to enjoy the beautiful sunrise (if the weather is fine). After breakfast, visit the most beautiful places in Zhangjiajie Scenic Area, Yang Jiajie Scenic Area (Golden Rooster at Dawn, Wulongzhai, Three Deaths and One Life, Yangmen Maiden, Echo Wall, Lovers Peak, Wuzhishan, Tianbofu, etc.), and the most famous bandit nest in western Hunan. The scenery in Yang Jiajie, like Zhangjiajie, is mainly original scenery and natural beauty. Compared with Zhangjiajie, Tianzi Mountain and Suoxiyu, it has its own unique features, unlike Zhangjiajie, but also better than Zhangjiajie, except that the geology and landform are basically the same as some peaks. It is an excellent scenic spot that regular tour groups have no time to arrange ... Afternoon: after lunch, visit Tian Zi Mountain Scenic Area (Xiansanhua, Yubi Peak, Tianzi Pavilion, Yunqingyan and other scenic spots), He Long Park, one of the top ten marshals-the bronze statue of He Long, go down the mountain and visit Shili Gallery Scenic Area (Three Sisters Peak, the old herbalist, return to Zhangjiajie, and take a bus to visit the towering Tianmen Mountain and Tianmen Cave, the soul of Wuling) on sunny days. End a pleasant trip! At present, this route is a frequent self-help tour, and the cost is 600 yuan/person, including tickets, catering, accommodation, round-trip transportation from downtown to scenic spots, tour guide fees and travel insurance. No shopping during the whole journey, which is very cost-effective. Interested parties can open the following links to view the itinerary and cost description in detail. For the cost-effective second-line self-help tour, please click the following link to view the specific itinerary and cost description: