Yangjiajie

Wulong Village (bandit stronghold with a narrow "One-Line-Sky" pass) / Tianbofu (viewing platform overlooking the peak walls), "peak-wall wonder" (Yangjiajie's newly discovered peak-wall landform). Yangjiajie takes its name from the legend that descendants of the Song-dynasty Yang Family Generals garrisoned troops here; it is the most precipitous of the areas: Wulong Village was once a mountain lair held by bandits—entering means squeezing sideways through the "One Step Is Hard" gap and crawling through the narrow One-Line-Sky gateway, thrills guaranteed, and the fort's name echoes the Western Hunan bandit-suppression history told in the TV series "Bandits Suppression in Wulong Mountain"; from the Tianbofu viewing platform you look down on peak walls arrayed on all sides like castle battlements. The "peak-wall wonder" is a landform newly discovered at Yangjiajie in recent years—stone-wall-like peaks running in continuous rows, adding an entirely new landform sample to the World Geopark. Even after the cableway reaches mid-mountain you must still hike; visitor density is lower than at Yuanjiajie, suiting travelers who enjoy quiet and a challenge.

Getting there: Yangjiajie Cableway