Archive for November 6th, 2012
The Best China Tourism Video Ever? Zhangjiajie does Gangnam Style
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Like all of you I am tired of Gangnam Style knockoffs.
But this one from Zhangjiajie (张家界) in Hunan is just too good.
Zhangjiajie is a well known tourism destination, has a brand new English web site for tourists, and apparently was the inspiration for the Pandora landscape in Avatar.
Here is the video via Sina, complete with a cameo around minute 2 by Zheng Yaping (郑亚平), the 58 year old deputy director of the Zhangjiajie Municipal Tourism Bureau, as a dancing straw bird in an elevator: