Would YOU go to Zhangjiajie National Park? ⬇ We visited on Wednesday October 23rd 2024 - and we specifically picked this date because it was a random day in the middle of the week and there were no public holidays in China. But still it was crazy and chaotic, what do you guys think?
This is truly a terrible experience-too many people. As one of the most famous tourist spots, people from all over China gather here. If you're lucky, you'll encounter fewer crowds, but if not, it will be like what you experienced. As a Chinese person, I personally avoid such crowded places. However, judging from the video, this number of people seems normal. Most travelers can only understand the scale of China's population through firsthand experience
I was there in October as well, I'm so sorry you had such an experience oh goodness and you remained so cheerful tbh, I would've been miserable. I went a week before golden week, it was very busy too, so we did research on quiet routes and ended up doing more of the hiking routes (not that many bus journeys and they're not on the guide maps that the hotels and home stays have - they're used to recommend the easy routes with more busses and cableways and less walking) which yeah, it was a lot more steps but we were able to avoid the crowds. Near Huangshi Village if you walk down the pillar there's also a little cat sanctuary. We ended up doing the elevator the opposite way around one one of the days and took it down in the evening. If anyone wants to go to Zhangjiajie and is going in high season like this, I highly recommend the lesser known hiking routes, there's a few blog posts floating around with info - if you go off season apparently you can even have days where you meet no one! 💕
It might have something to do with the sudden rise of popularity of this place in South Korea that attracted tones of Korean tourists (All welcome). Plus domestic touring become a thing in China as well. It’s definitely bad timing, yeah it’s a good season to visit for the scenery so naturally more people come. Maybe come back in the future when the whole Zhangjiajie heat cool down a bit.
The most beautiful mountain in China is Huang Shan, and there are many hotels on the top so you can stay overnight for the sunrise, and the best thing is it’s by appointment! you really should go if you visit China again.
We had been to zhangjiajie during summer. Not so crowded but we didn’t see anything when taking the cable car up to tianmen mountain because of the thick fog😢 But it is worthwhile to see those floating mountains. Once in a life experience!
That's super crazy to see so many tourist on a weekday! I think you've done your research well, sometimes it's just not meant to be. I've been there like 15 years ago and the crowd was more manageable. And we got more time so we took the 3-hour walk through the river valley. It was a really tranquil experience.
Yeh we got pretty unlucky because we know a few people who went when it was "peak" time and they didn't have any problems. I guess if you're going to go, be prepared to wait a lot and have a few days to compensate for that haha
As a Chinese, I would never consider going to some places like Zhangjiajie. The reason is just as you showed, there are too many tourists! I think the best places to visit in China are to experience the modern cities in Shanghai or Beijing, go to Inner Mongolia to experience the grasslands or go to Xinjiang and Tibet to enjoy the magnificent scenery. The cities in central China are very crowded. You went to a place that foreign tourists generally don't choose, which I appreciate very much, but I still recommend going to less crowded places.
There definitely weren't many foreign tourists there, it was mainly people from other parts of China. We are going to those bigger cities, so we'll see how they turn out 👍
zhangjiajie, like the great wall or any super publicized tourist attractions in China, is a hit or miss when it comes to crowd, because they really dont have off seasons. Personally, if I saw that queue, I wouldve rescheduled and goto another site and come back at another day.
We didn't have that option in our schedule unfortunately, we specifically chose this time because that's when most of the websites recommended to go. Oh well, we kind of saw it at least haha
Just so you know. Your Zhangjiajie National Park Tickets are valid for 4 consecutive days. So if you didn’t manage to see everything on day 1 you could easily go back again the next day hopefully with less crowds.
gotta avoid peak season at any chinese major attraction 🤣 you could have saved some money and queuing by walking up the mountain lol. takes a couple hours but you avoid all the tour groups.
If you went there recently, a lot of Koreans flocked to there may be the reason it was so crowded! Why? There is a saying among Koreans: one should at least go to Zhangjiajie once in his life…
@@adamandyazqueues are authentic Chinese experience. I once waited for 2 hours queue just to get into a new open Costco in China！Its not about zhangjiajie's management. This happens to every trending place in china！😂
Perhaps this is why Zhangjiajie still operates at a loss. Despite the pandemic being over, the financial reports and stock prices are not looking good, compared to other tourism or hotel companies in China. They did not manage the scenic area well.
Most websites say the best time to visit is mid-October to mid-November… this was more than 2 weeks after the most recent public holiday 🤷 thank you for watching 👍
You silly traveller, every visitor knew China is crowded except both of you. No one is forcing you to tour China, you can always not return, it's your choice.
We literally said we would have been happy to not be able to go if they capped the amount of tickets sold and it was sold out on the day / week / month we wanted. Watch the video before commenting 👍
Damn that queue sure looked insane! Might've had something to do with Golden week in Oct. I've actually been to ZJG myself in Easter, only had 2 days so I only saw the Tianmen mountain (1.5 hr queue for the cable car) and the Grand Canyon (no queue), ran out of time to see the actual mountains like you guys, didn't know it could be like that😂 18:08 That glass bridge in the Grand Canyon is actually pretty awesome, there's a Zipline/ really long metal slide downhill and a really pretty canyon down a riverside to walk on. It's definitely worth a visit in my opinion another time. Tianmen mountain too! The Furong Ancient Town and Phoenix Town was also really beautiful, only a half hour train ride away. Hope your next visit would be less busy and that they control the amount of tickets better.
Thank you for watching and understanding it from our perspective 😃 this was October 23rd so middle of the week and almost 3 weeks after the most recent national holiday, so we didn’t expect any issues but that’s how it goes sometimes. Glad to hear we weren’t the only ones haha 😅
@@adamandyazGotcha yeah Oct 23 normally shouldn't be this insane. Then yeah it really is an issue with crowd control on their end for letting so many people in🤔 Oh well at least you can tick this place off the bucket list, the surrounding sights I mentioned are worth a see on another trip😄
@@adamandyazone reason why you guys stumbled into such insane queue is that almost every retired groups of people pick up the middle day of week to travel to get a cheap tour…tourist companies like to arrange that 😢😢 from your footage I could see those groups…unlucky day for you…hope you have more cosy tour ahead..😂and as a Chinese I really get that frustration feeling when we are traveling
Zhangjiajie park management, please take note. More options, more free exploration, less hiking, less loudspeaker noise without respite, less queueing. More park facilities and options to stay or travel by night, rather than try and squeeze everything in daylight hours - and you will get return visitors who actually enjoyed the place, as opposed to people vowing never to return and telling an average 7 people how awful it all is. The reason to visit is to enjoy and appreciate.
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Would YOU go to Zhangjiajie National Park? ⬇
We visited on Wednesday October 23rd 2024 - and we specifically picked this date because it was a random day in the middle of the week and there were no public holidays in China. But still it was crazy and chaotic, what do you guys think?
This is truly a terrible experience-too many people. As one of the most famous tourist spots, people from all over China gather here. If you're lucky, you'll encounter fewer crowds, but if not, it will be like what you experienced. As a Chinese person, I personally avoid such crowded places. However, judging from the video, this number of people seems normal. Most travelers can only understand the scale of China's population through firsthand experience
没有限定游客数量导致登山拥堵，如果发生踩踏事件会极其危险，同时游客的体验感会非常的差。这个国家公园的管理部门一心只为赚钱而不顾及游客安全的做法让人不齿。看完这个视频后打消了去张家界旅游的想法。
哈哈哈哈，10月份是放假和天气很好的时候，谁去都一样，不是不限制，而是限制了，也这么多。
I was there in October as well, I'm so sorry you had such an experience oh goodness and you remained so cheerful tbh, I would've been miserable. I went a week before golden week, it was very busy too, so we did research on quiet routes and ended up doing more of the hiking routes (not that many bus journeys and they're not on the guide maps that the hotels and home stays have - they're used to recommend the easy routes with more busses and cableways and less walking) which yeah, it was a lot more steps but we were able to avoid the crowds. Near Huangshi Village if you walk down the pillar there's also a little cat sanctuary. We ended up doing the elevator the opposite way around one one of the days and took it down in the evening. If anyone wants to go to Zhangjiajie and is going in high season like this, I highly recommend the lesser known hiking routes, there's a few blog posts floating around with info - if you go off season apparently you can even have days where you meet no one! 💕
It might have something to do with the sudden rise of popularity of this place in South Korea that attracted tones of Korean tourists (All welcome). Plus domestic touring become a thing in China as well. It’s definitely bad timing, yeah it’s a good season to visit for the scenery so naturally more people come. Maybe come back in the future when the whole Zhangjiajie heat cool down a bit.
The most beautiful mountain in China is Huang Shan, and there are many hotels on the top so you can stay overnight for the sunrise, and the best thing is it’s by appointment! you really should go if you visit China again.
We had been to zhangjiajie during summer. Not so crowded but we didn’t see anything when taking the cable car up to tianmen mountain because of the thick fog😢 But it is worthwhile to see those floating mountains. Once in a life experience!
That's super crazy to see so many tourist on a weekday! I think you've done your research well, sometimes it's just not meant to be.
I've been there like 15 years ago and the crowd was more manageable. And we got more time so we took the 3-hour walk through the river valley. It was a really tranquil experience.
Yeh we got pretty unlucky because we know a few people who went when it was "peak" time and they didn't have any problems. I guess if you're going to go, be prepared to wait a lot and have a few days to compensate for that haha
As a Chinese, I would never consider going to some places like Zhangjiajie. The reason is just as you showed, there are too many tourists! I think the best places to visit in China are to experience the modern cities in Shanghai or Beijing, go to Inner Mongolia to experience the grasslands or go to Xinjiang and Tibet to enjoy the magnificent scenery. The cities in central China are very crowded. You went to a place that foreign tourists generally don't choose, which I appreciate very much, but I still recommend going to less crowded places.
There definitely weren't many foreign tourists there, it was mainly people from other parts of China. We are going to those bigger cities, so we'll see how they turn out 👍
zhangjiajie, like the great wall or any super publicized tourist attractions in China, is a hit or miss when it comes to crowd, because they really dont have off seasons. Personally, if I saw that queue, I wouldve rescheduled and goto another site and come back at another day.
We didn't have that option in our schedule unfortunately, we specifically chose this time because that's when most of the websites recommended to go. Oh well, we kind of saw it at least haha
Just so you know. Your Zhangjiajie National Park Tickets are valid for 4 consecutive days. So if you didn’t manage to see everything on day 1 you could easily go back again the next day hopefully with less crowds.
Yeh we know, but we only had 2 days and after what happened the first day, we didn’t want to go back again 😅
Bro, you chose one of the worse periods of go which is close to the Golden Week. So, don't complain much. 😅😅
Golden week was 1st - 7th October. We went 23rd… bro 👍
Those queues! 😱 would've put me off going in in the first place 😅
That's actually quite funny
谢谢！
Thank you!
gotta avoid peak season at any chinese major attraction 🤣
you could have saved some money and queuing by walking up the mountain lol. takes a couple hours but you avoid all the tour groups.
If you went there recently, a lot of Koreans flocked to there may be the reason it was so crowded! Why? There is a saying among Koreans: one should at least go to Zhangjiajie once in his life…
I think the people doing karaoke on the boat were all Koreans 😂
I am laughing so hard when I saw those queues. Very typical scenario.
😂😅
@@adamandyazqueues are authentic Chinese experience. I once waited for 2 hours queue just to get into a new open Costco in China！Its not about zhangjiajie's management. This happens to every trending place in china！😂
Perhaps this is why Zhangjiajie still operates at a loss. Despite the pandemic being over, the financial reports and stock prices are not looking good, compared to other tourism or hotel companies in China. They did not manage the scenic area well.
China tourism sites visitors majority came from china itself from different parts of china.Imagine their population,what to expect
the park should consider controlling the ticket, to improve everyone's experience. but it looks like they only consider making more money☹
Such a shame 👎
Oct is never a good option😂 its Chinese national holiday！ everyone went out for travelling😂
Most websites say the best time to visit is mid-October to mid-November… this was more than 2 weeks after the most recent public holiday 🤷 thank you for watching 👍
that is why i never visit such place as a 32 years old Chinese
Its worlds longest cable car.😊
Haha it felt like it!
You silly traveller, every visitor knew China is crowded except both of you. No one is forcing you to tour China, you can always not return, it's your choice.
Never go to China in holiday during national holidays or close to these days
10 October is national day in china
You were just unlucky
10/01 is the National day for People of Republic of China (PRC), 10/10 is the National Day for Republic of China (ROC, aka Taiwan) .......
We went 23rd October. At least two weeks after the public holiday - most websites say mid-October to mid-November is the best time as well 🤷
u r part of the crowd so u have no right to complain since u should complain yourself
We literally said we would have been happy to not be able to go if they capped the amount of tickets sold and it was sold out on the day / week / month we wanted. Watch the video before commenting 👍
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Damn that queue sure looked insane! Might've had something to do with Golden week in Oct. I've actually been to ZJG myself in Easter, only had 2 days so I only saw the Tianmen mountain (1.5 hr queue for the cable car) and the Grand Canyon (no queue), ran out of time to see the actual mountains like you guys, didn't know it could be like that😂
18:08 That glass bridge in the Grand Canyon is actually pretty awesome, there's a Zipline/ really long metal slide downhill and a really pretty canyon down a riverside to walk on. It's definitely worth a visit in my opinion another time. Tianmen mountain too!
The Furong Ancient Town and Phoenix Town was also really beautiful, only a half hour train ride away. Hope your next visit would be less busy and that they control the amount of tickets better.
Thank you for watching and understanding it from our perspective 😃 this was October 23rd so middle of the week and almost 3 weeks after the most recent national holiday, so we didn’t expect any issues but that’s how it goes sometimes. Glad to hear we weren’t the only ones haha 😅
@@adamandyazGotcha yeah Oct 23 normally shouldn't be this insane. Then yeah it really is an issue with crowd control on their end for letting so many people in🤔
Oh well at least you can tick this place off the bucket list, the surrounding sights I mentioned are worth a see on another trip😄
@ well definitely check them out, thanks 🤙
@@adamandyazone reason why you guys stumbled into such insane queue is that almost every retired groups of people pick up the middle day of week to travel to get a cheap tour…tourist companies like to arrange that 😢😢 from your footage I could see those groups…unlucky day for you…hope you have more cosy tour ahead..😂and as a Chinese I really get that frustration feeling when we are traveling
Zhangjiajie park management, please take note. More options, more free exploration, less hiking, less loudspeaker noise without respite, less queueing. More park facilities and options to stay or travel by night, rather than try and squeeze everything in daylight hours - and you will get return visitors who actually enjoyed the place, as opposed to people vowing never to return and telling an average 7 people how awful it all is. The reason to visit is to enjoy and appreciate.