You are going to spend two or three days in a car with someone you have never met, in a place where you do not speak the language. This page exists so you can see who those people are before you send anybody a deposit.
Our English-speaking guides
All three guides below hold national guide licences issued under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The licence numbers are printed on purpose: you can verify them in China’s national guide database. We would rather you check than take our word for it.
Alina (龚莉娟)
- National guide licence: ISD5181L — English
- Five years of guiding in Zhangjiajie
Zhu Lerong (朱乐荣)
- National guide licence: EPF8053G — English
- Works with us in Zhangjiajie year-round
Yang Zhongyi (杨中乙)
- National guide licence: LEF2328G — English and Mandarin
- Registered with the Guide Branch of the Zhangjiajie Tourism Association; licence valid through March 2027
Each guide is writing a short introduction themselves, in their own English, and we will add them over the next few weeks. For now, the licence numbers above are what you can actually check.
Our drivers
Our drivers are not guides, and they will tell you that themselves. What they know is these roads: airport to Wulingyuan, the park gates in the morning rush, and the ninety-nine curves up to Tianmen Mountain. Every driver on the team has been driving for at least eight years, most of it here.
They know which gate car park fills up first in July, which road the tour buses take at eight in the morning so you should leave at seven thirty, and where to stop for lunch that is not a tourist trap. Driver profiles with names and photos are the next thing going up on this page. If you came here to book a car rather than read about the team, that is the Zhangjiajie private driver page.
Groups we have taken out
A group of ours at the Wulingyuan sign gate. On a clear day the pagoda behind them is the first thing you see when the bus drops you off. On this day the top of it was in the cloud — which is the honest version of Zhangjiajie weather, and the reason we always plan a second option for fog days.
The same crowd on the glass bridge at Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon. Everyone wears those red shoe covers — that is how they keep the glass clean enough to actually see through. If you come across photos of this bridge where nobody is wearing them, they were not taken on the bridge.
A message we kept
Not everything lands on a review site. Sometimes it is just a WeChat message after a family lands back home.
This one came from Eli, Shimon, Orly and Luzy, who spent more than a week with us. It was written to Alina, their guide, and we are printing it exactly as it arrived, including the spelling:
“after more then a week tougher we had the honor to meet a special lady that became friend. We ask to thank u for all u did to make our time so perfect. In the name of shimon, Orly, luzy and my self — we LOVE YOU!”
He means “more than a week together”. We left every typo where it is. Polishing it would have made it less true.
Our vehicles
Buick GL8 — seven seats, the standard business van in China. Comfortable enough for a full day in the mountains, with real luggage space for four.
Mercedes-Benz Sprinter — for bigger groups, or when you want to spread out on the longer drives to Fenghuang or Changsha.
What we will not claim
If you want the longer version of who we are and what we are licensed to do, that is on our about page.
Nobody here has twenty years of experience. Our company was registered in 2023 and our inbound travel licence was issued in June 2025. If a Zhangjiajie agency claims decades of inbound experience, it is worth asking what the entity behind it actually is.
What we can say plainly: our guides hold verifiable national licences, our drivers have at least eight years on these roads, and our own licence number L-HUN-303754 is public, so you can check that too.