The giant quartz sand pillars of Wulingyuan are said to have
been the inspiration for James Cameron's floating mountains on the planet
Pandora in his Oscar-winning movie “Avatar.”
In reality, the Wulingyuan area in Zhangjiajie, a city in
Hunan Province in southern China, is home to more than 3,000 of these stone
columns.
The tallest pillar in the stone forest stands more than 400
meters high.
Wulingyuan authorities have renamed one of the pillars
“Mount Hallelujah,” the name of the main floating peak on Pandora.
Zhangjiajie is about 320 kilometers northwest of Changsha,
Hunan’s provincial capital and the region’s main traffic hub.
Trains and direct flights are available between Zhangjiajie
and many Chinese cities, including Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
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