Mengdong River Rafting
Mengdong River is so named because its mountain’s shape is like a tiger, strong current of river and many natural cave.. Fei Xiaotong , the vice chairman of NPC named it the No. 1 water rafting in the World, which won the famous trademark in Hunan Province in February of 2002 , it become the only one trade mark in tourism service in china.
Mengdong river rafting is located in furong town, yongshun county, xiangxi autonomous prefecture, hunan province. Its starting point is only 40 kilometers away from furong town, a famous tourist attraction in xiangxi. Mengdong river rafting, the total length is 47 km, is a branch of Mengdong river . The highlight of the rafting is about 17 kilometers in length from Hani palace to Niulu River. There are forests on the two sides of the river with ten miles of cliff, ten miles of waterfalls, ten miles of natural paintings and ten miles of natural caves. Among them, there are 108 rapids, 20 waterfalls.
It is 2.5 hours drive from Zhangjiajie to Mengdong river , 1 hour drive from Jishou, and 2 hours drive from Fenghuang old town.