WOULD YOU WALK ON THIS GLASS BRIDGE IN CHINA _ Tianmen Mountain, Zhangjiajie

Theunis Smith

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00:00Nǐ hǎo from Jiangxiajie, South Central China.

00:28If you haven't already seen it, I have a whole video on Jiangxiajie National Park, which

00:35is the main attraction that people come here to see.

00:39It is absolutely incredible, but there are so many other natural attractions to see in

00:46this area.

00:47So in this video, I will be showing you guys Tianmenshan Mountain, which we are going to

00:53go up first today, since it's right in the central part of Jiangxiajie.

00:59I'm staying in a beautiful hotel guest house, actually right near the cableway.

01:04Now that I've actually done this trip myself, I would say that you should split up your

01:09time, that when you're going to Tianmenshan Mountain, stay in Jiangxiajie City, and when

01:16you are going to the National Park, stay in the mountain little town slash city, Wulingyuan,

01:25if I'm saying that correctly, because then you are right close to the entry gates.

01:30Or you can just take a bus or taxi there, as I have been doing, to not have to switch

01:34accommodations, but either way, both places are fairly tourist-friendly.

01:41There's a lot of huge Chinese tourist groups that come here.

01:46But even with the language barrier, it's not too hard to kind of navigate if you do

01:51your research ahead of time, and that's why I hope this video will be helpful to you guys.

02:16Oh my god, I did not expect this.

02:38And I have a specific time queue, I'm supposed to be 10am to 11am.

02:45I hope I'm going to make it through in time, holy hell.

04:45Wow, what a cable car ride.

04:50Incredible, absolutely incredible.

04:53Upon first impressions, the first thing that I didn't anticipate is that this area is,

05:03it's a walk.

05:04In comparison to yesterday when I did just the Jiangxiajie National Park area, you more

05:10or less take buses or cable cars everywhere outside of just walking the few platforms.

05:16But here, there's an eastern loop and a western loop.

05:21I'm on the western loop right now, and it's supposed to be about 3km.

05:25And then the eastern loop I think is almost 4km.

05:29So if you're going to do both, it will actually take you a while.

05:33And of course a lot of it is uphill.

05:37I'm happy to report that it was really only in the beginning that there was a lot of uphill.

05:43As I went on further, it was actually quite flat on these incredible platforms on the

05:49side of the mountain.

05:51But of course, one of the top things that people come to Tianmen Mountain for is to

05:57experience the glass walk.

06:01This is a continuation of the path around the mountain, but you can see all the way down.

06:12Luckily these sorts of things don't really freak me out.

06:16I am afraid of heights in certain circumstances, but these sort of glass walks don't really

06:22do it for me.

06:23So while there were some people that were kind of freaking out, I was surprised why

06:28they would do it in the beginning if they knew they had a fear of it.

06:32But yeah, personally I didn't find it that scary, and it did look very well built.

06:38Overall the park was very impressive where you were on this walkway for quite a while

06:44and got to see these incredible vistas of the surrounding area.

06:48The other nice thing that I've noticed about a lot of Chinese tourist attractions is they

06:53do make them very convenient with snacks and washrooms.

06:57Every kilometer you could find a proper place to sit down and have a little rest.

07:03It was a really enjoyable walk and you passed a few different attractions like the suspension

07:08bridge and also there was this beautiful temple kind of at the halfway point.

07:13But I knew the main thing that I was making my way towards was the actual Tianmen Cave

07:19and that is on the eastern part of the route.

07:23Oh my gosh, I was just walking along and all of a sudden see a patch of snow!

07:33It's just like in Canada!

07:35Oh, it's actually pretty hard, I won't wreck it.

07:37Nowhere else have I seen snow so far, but the first day I got here was actually a bit

07:45chilly, about like 5 to 10 degrees, but now it's really, really nice out.

07:54Oh my god, this is where all the tourists are.

07:59Look at this.

08:00Oh, wait!

08:01Oh, somebody's going to jump!

08:04It's those people in the squirrel suits, I think they're going to jump.

08:53I mean, it would be cool to see them jump, but I think they're taking a break.

09:06I'm going to use this opportunity to go down the elevator when hopefully all of these people

09:13are waiting to see the jumps because this crowd is insane.

09:53I'm confused right now, are we in the hole of the cave or is this the cave?

10:18And where's the stairs?

10:19I know there's the stairs that are leading up to the hole.

10:23Yes, okay, we are in the circle part, I just had to look up.

10:28Pretty cool view actually, and I'm fairly certain that those right here are the stairs,

10:39but there's nobody on them.

10:42I don't know if they just recently closed that down because I watched some other people's

10:48YouTube video and they did have them, you know, in working order.

10:55People were climbing them, but it is crazy, crazy steep.

11:48Oh my god guys, it just hit me how tired I am.

12:09It's been an amazing day, I've had an incredible time, but I think yesterday getting up at

12:145.30 for Janjiaji, getting like four hours of sleep because I went to bed so late, and

12:20then today I didn't get that much sleep either, plus a good at least 15 kilometers of walking

12:26around today.

12:27I am tired, but I am so glad I did this, like it is such an amazing location and really

12:36a must if you're coming all the way out here.

12:38So I hope you guys found this video helpful.

12:41It is, you know, a little bit intimidating to travel around these areas of China where

12:47foreign travelers aren't very common, so I hope you can use this video to plan your trip.

12:52As always, I'm sending you guys so much love, I hope you're having a fantastic day, and

12:57keep being your own kind of beautiful.

12:59Bye guys!

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