Sunday, January 31, 2010

Inspiring Avatar Landscape in China



Looking for inspiring beautiful scenery in the world? Just find it at China. Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, with its soaring steeple of rock topped by a small oasis of trees looks straight out of the 3D blockbuster Avatar.

But this is no special effects illusion, it's a real-life tower of quartz-sandstone deep in the rugged mountain terrain of southern Hunan in China. Below pic shows the floating peak in Avatar movie.


The 3,544ft Southern Sky Column became the inspiration for the magical 'floating peaks' in James Cameron's film after a Hollywood photographer spent time shooting there in 2008.


The mountain previously known as the 'Southern Sky Column' in China, which has now been named the 'Avatar Hallelujah Mountain'


Now as film fans flock to see the column, the column has had its named officially changed to 'Avatar Hallelujah Mountain'.


On why the authorities doing that?....Profit of course! 'Avatar' has so far made around $80 million in China, and has become the country's most popular film ever. Zhangjiajie hopes to capitalise on that fame.

The municipal government even added this at their web 'Pandora is far but Zhangjiajie is near,'


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