28/9/12
Our agenda today, is to visit a unique art gallery dedicated to a local artist of local minority ethnic.
Our agenda today, is to visit a unique art gallery dedicated to a local artist of local minority ethnic.
The "李军声沙石画园" is an art gallery that is first of its kind, by producing art utilizing nature materials such as the stones, sands, rocks, and numerous faunas found within the vicinity of ZhangJiaJie's nature.
The art gallery while attending to tourists also is a place for people to study the art of constructing drawings with the said materials.
We stayed till lunch and after that its a long drive to the outskirt of town to the cable car station which we shall take a 30mins long cable car ride into the mountain range where the TianMenShan is located.
Then there shall be another 30mins long bus ride on the road with 99 180 degree turns all the way up to the foot of TianMenShan.
Upon taking a short photo taking break, we ascend up the 999steps of stairs that leads up to where the TianMenShan is.
The TianMenShan is a naturally formed short, hollowed cave that is large enough for a combat jet to fly through, which is also been done before and proved.
The 999 steps leading up does not have exactly 999 steps but is used as the Chinese believe the number 9 to be auspicious. The road the bus take us up also have less than 99 turns but was named so for it auspicious beliefs.
After heading down the same way we came up and had our dinner, the our bus took us to the valley where we shall watch a show in an open-air theater, the story is about a human who had fell in love with a Vixen spirit and how they end up together after many perils. The sound effects of the show are all lively sung by the local ethnics and boy do they have an amazing voice. The show also use a magic trick invented by David Copperfield where they had paid for the copyright of this trick.
Also amazing is the mountain range that is light up by spotlights in cue with the music at the end of the show, breathtaking and a must see if anyone venture down to ZhangJiaJie for a vacation.
That concludes our journey for ZhangJiaJie and we shall be leaving for Guangzhou the following day.
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| Entrance of the art gallery. |
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| A view from the 2nd floor of the building. |
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| A model of the mountain area of the TianMenShan. |
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| Going up by cable cars, from the outskirt of the town all the way up to the middle of the mountain range. |
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| You know him. |
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| A glass corridor, not for the faint-hearted. |
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| 2nd part of travel is by bus, more than 80 turns up hill. |
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| The foot of TianMenShan. |
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| A better photography skill would be nice. |
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| Steep flight of stairs down. nearly 1000 steps. |
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| Evening event, open air theater in the valley. |
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| Show's end, mountain range light up in cue, breathtaking. |
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