Betel Nut Valley Outdoor Experience: Hiking, Rock Climbing, Canyoning, Cave Exploration (includes leader and transfers)
Betel Nut Valley is also known as the "Entrance to the Underworld," "City in the Sky," and "City of Angels," with landscapes resembling scenes from science fiction movies. Here, you can experience rock climbing, river tracing, and traversing caves and valleys. The Gate of Angels is even more spectacular and beautiful than Tianmen Cave in Tianmen Mountain!
- Maze Cave: The City of Angels has a large karst cave, resembling a secret passage left by angels. Inside, there are underground rivers and countless branch caves and passages, filled with stalactites, stalagmites, cave flowers, cave curtains, and cave corals formed by the condensation of calcareous solutions. The largest cave chamber can accommodate thousands of people.
- City of Angels: Karst mountains, hundreds of meters high, naturally form towering city walls, with a huge natural bridge serving as the city gate. The city is lush with vegetation, unfathomably deep, and astonishing, hence its name, City of Angels. Within the City of Angels, one can see miniature "peak forests" formed by water erosion, closely resembling the Zhangjiajie landform, recreating the process by which the "Creator" formed the Zhangjiajie landform.
- Valley of Stars: The Valley of Stars is an open stream valley with a dried riverbed. Three sides are surrounded by black and white limestone cliffs, thousands of feet high, like a barrel. The valley is covered with green grass and murmuring springs.
- Gate of Heaven: A natural karst bridge, hundreds of meters high, serves as the city gate of the City of Angels. Locals also call it the "Stove Gate" because the City of Angels resembles a Tujia stove.
- Valley of the Moon: The Valley of the Moon is a crescent-shaped canyon. Abandoned farmland in the valley, left for many years, is now covered with natural turf, making it an ideal place for camping.
- Betel Nut Hole: This is a square through-mountain cave on one side of the cliff in the Valley of Stars. "The cave is 25 meters high, 20 meters wide, and over 160 meters long. On the same cliff as Betel Nut Hole, there is another through-mountain cave attraction called Groom's Cave, named after a villager who, while hiding from bandits, married his wife in the cave and lived there for 8 years."
What to expect
Betel Nut Valley is also known as “Entrance to the Underworld,” “Sky City,” and “City of Angels.” It is an outdoor rock climbing and hiking sanctuary that only a few locals know about, yet is very famous online. We arrange vehicle pick-up and drop-off from your hotel, with experienced guides leading the way and assisting you, equipped with a full set of safety protection gear. This hiking route includes mountain hiking, rock climbing, canyoning, and cave exploration. The natural scenery is spectacular, and the hiking route is full of fun, requiring a certain level of physical fitness and skill. The forest and grassland coverage here exceeds 80%, preserving traces of geological evolution from hundreds of millions of years ago. It is known as “Zhangjiajie in its youth,” featuring diverse landscapes such as open valleys, narrow fissures, through-mountain caves, natural stone bridges, streams, stone peaks, and tea gardens. Major attractions include: Sky City, Heaven’s Gate, Devil’s Eye, Star Valley, Moon Valley, Betel Nut Cave, Church Cave, Zhuma Stream, and Jia’er Gully.




































Good to know
- You need to bring a small amount of food. Wear non-slip, waterproof sports shoes and sportswear.
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