The Most Extreme Cable Car in the World

This time I’ll back to write about an interesting things related with travel. Travel is always amazing and great experience for us. From travel we can see many things from the new place, culture, people and beautiful scenery. We can’t deny that nature give the main role from this hobby. Natures show the beauty and we can enjoy this from the land, water and air. This hub talk about how if we enjoy all the beauty of nature, include forest, mountain, field, river and many more from the highest place. It means we enjoy this beauty from the air. Of course we need a tool to support us to enjoy the beautiful things from the air. Now we talk about cable car. What is your opinion related this transportation?

I know most of us who love travel to mountain have the experience with cable car. With this transportation we can get to the peak of mountain and we can see everything below this place. I get the meaning of cable car from Wikipedia. A cable car is any of a variety of transportation systems relying on cables to pull vehicles along or lower them at a steady rate, or a vehicle on these systems. It mean this transportation depend on the long cable. Usually the cabin filled by two up to more than ten passengers. Most of the cable car use hydraulic system at the central station.

We can see many cable cars around the world. Most of these cable cars look amazing with beautiful views below this transportation. This time I’ll share the most extreme cable car in the world. I know it looks scary if we see something below us. It will pump our adrenaline, right. But most of the passengers enjoy this transportation as something interesting as the part of travel. With the long route, they can enjoy the trip and it like fly on the air. I’ll share about these transportations below. Are you curious? Keep on reading……….

This cable car located in Brazil. The exactly place is in the area of Sugarloaf Mountain, Rio de Janeiro. With the length route about 1400 meters from de Cao way to the top of Pao de Acucar just need 20 minute ride. Why this cable so extreme? because of the route at the height of 396 meters (1299 ft) above the mountains. This was Italian-made cable car with 98 years old (built 1912) is able to accommodate passenger as many as 65 people at once. For one trip, it will cost about $ 11 or $ 22 for the trip back to the Pao de Acucar. This service is only opened at 8 am to 8 pm local time.

Langkawi Island is located in Malaysia. The latest tourist attraction for Langkawi is the cable car system. This is located at the Oriental Village. We can reach this place just a 30 minutes drive from Kuah town and about 15 minutes drive from Langkawi International Airport. The trip from a small village to the area of the cable car is only about 600 meters. Langkawi cable car passed through the region of Mount Mat Chop which is the second highest peak in Langkawi. The trip looks quite tense for the passengers. Many tourists satisfied with this service. That’s why this cable car was awarded the 'Most Outstanding Tourism Product' at the Langkawi Tourism Industry Award 2010 / 2011. If you want visit Malaysia, don't forget to ride Langkawi's cable car.

This cable car is located in the ancient fortress of Masada, Israel. From the pictures we can see that this cable car is hangs on the desert region which are extremely arid and hot. The Masada cableway line are made only as high as about 257 meters and capable in driving up to 33 feet above the top of the hills which is the final destination of the journey. That’s why Masada cableway mentioned as the lowest pathway of cable car in the world. Based on the information, Masada cableway was built in 1971 by a Brndle Karl (Swiss company) with the route along 900 meters. In 1998 has redesign by Von Roll, a train company.

Wow…this is the most interesting section for me, because my passion with snow and I want to touch this in person. I thought skiing is one of the extreme activities. I never do this before, even touch the snow. If we talk about skiing, it will remind us again about Alps Mountain in Switzerland. Klein Matterhorn or Matterhorn Glacier Paradise is the name of cable car in the Alps Mountain which is the highest in Europe. Alps Mountain has an altitude of 3883 meters, while the Matterhorn cable car terminal is located at an altitude of 3820 meters. As we know that Alps is the name of the big mountains in Europe (starting from Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, France to Slovenia).

During the trip this cable car can reach 88 meters or 289 feet above sea level. There are elevators at each station of the Alps to climb the peak (don’t doubt about its quality). From the cable car, the passenger can enjoy the beauty scenery below, like: mountain ice in winter, skiers and a scary tunnel near the mountain.

Ngong Ping 360 is the name of cable car which is used as tourist attraction in the area of Lantau Island, Hong Kong. Earlier this cable car has name Ngong Ping 360 Skyrail , but the name was changed became Ngong Ping 360 since April 2005. Ngong Ping 306 has two types of cable cars, standard cabin and cabin with crystal. This transportation is linking the area of Tung Chung with Ngong Ping on top of hills and Hong Kong downtown. In the Ngong Ping hills area, the passengers will find a beautiful lake, Po Lin and Tian Tan Buddhist temples.

Most people love to call this China’s Tianmen Chan or Heaven’s Gate Mountain. This is located about 8 km south of the city of Zhangjiajie (formerly Dayong) in the northern province of Hunan. The tourists who want to enjoy the view have only two options, walking up 999 steps to the top of the mountain or taking the cable car. With the route long about 7455 meters and height of 1279 meters. Most of the pictures surprise me. I can imagine how high these mountain and I believe all the passengers will have unexpected experience.

If you visit Vietnam don’t forget to try Ba Na Hills. This is one of the most amazing destinations in Vietnam. What can we see here? There’s a beauty of forest and mountains. Of course, we must ride the cable car. View from the cable car with forested mountains all around as far as the eye could see. The Guinness world record holder this cable car for the longest and highest non-stop cable car ride. These are double achievement of two new Guinness World Records. This cable car will run from the foot of the Ba Na Mountain to the peak of the neighbouring Vong Nguyet Mountain (Ba Na-Suoi Mo Tourism Area). We just need about 15 minutes to reach 16,545 ft height and reaching of a vertical rise of 4,239 ft above sea level.

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