Today, around the world, especially in mountainous areas, cable cars are popular as a way to travel. The first of them was discovered in 1866 in the mountainous regions of Switzerland. With her help, tourists moved to the observation deck with a magnificent view of the surrounding alpine landscapes.
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At the beginning of the active development of skiing, in the second half of the 20th century, the active construction of cable cars around the world began. Every year, such a design of the road became more convenient, improved.
Now they are being built even in the most difficult and inaccessible places for people. Among the most diverse cable cars around the world there are quite impressive, amazing in shape, location and length of the structure.
In this article, you can familiarize yourself with the different types of cable cars and find out what is the longest cable car in the world. Among the many diverse designs, there are the most striking and unusual. A brief look at some of them.
The most exciting and impressive cable cars in the world
The Chinese cable car in Zhangjiajie National Park is the most exciting. The mountains here seem to soar in the air. They are so tall and steep that from their peaks in the fog you can not see the base. Such a stunning view opens up from the cabins of the funicular that even cases of tourists fainting were observed. Of course, for the most part, the fact is that here, due to sudden changes in pressure, it lays ears and air temperature drops sharply.
It is no coincidence that this cableway is called the "road to heaven": some segments in the rise have a slope of 70 °. It seems that it crashes into the clouds.
Sternensauser (Hoch Ibrig ski resort) in Switzerland is the most terrifying cable car in the world in terms of movement. The structure represents a cable stretched at a 75-meter height between the platforms. The longest cableway in the world of this type is as follows. Passengers move under it under the weight of their own bodies, fastening their seat belts and wearing helmets. There is also a chair lift, during the movement of which the passenger can move at great speed (90 km per hour). This creates a creepy and at the same time exciting sensation of free flight.
"Genting" (Malaysia) is the fastest cable-car in the world and a real empire of entertainment.
This site is located on the highest point of the mountain (2000 m), so it can be seen from afar both during the day (the outlines of all structures and buildings) and at night due to the abundance of neon lights). Here, at the top, there are hotels, a beautiful amusement park and the only legal casino in Malaysia. A cable car leads over an exotic jungle, where you can see strange plants, amazingly beautiful flowers and monkeys scurrying in dense thickets directly from the funicular. The road through this impassable jungle was built in 1997.
Vietnam cable car
"Winperl" in Nha Trang stretched from the capital of Khanh Hoa province to Hon Tre Island (translated as "Bamboo Island"), where the world famous eponymous amusement park is located. This is one of the favorite vacation spots of the country's guests and the Vietnamese themselves.
Since commissioning in 2007, this facility of this type is the longest cable car in the world. Above the water surface it stretches for 3320 m. And its height ranges from 5 to 75 m.
The road was built by representatives of a Swiss company. The whole structure represents huge columns supporting the "cable car". In the evenings, it is very beautifully highlighted. The structure is stylized in the shape of the Eiffel Tower.
The cabin accommodates 8 people, and travel time takes about 10 minutes. For comparison, it should be noted that on a ferry to the island you can cross in 20 minutes, and on a boat in 7.
Previously, people reached the island only by water - using appropriate transport.
The longest cable car in the world over the sea has a huge capacity - 1,500 people per hour.
The oldest cableway in the Czech Republic
Today, the oldest cable car in the world is considered to take passengers to the Petřín Hill in the Czech Republic. Over the 120 years of its existence, its trailers transported more than 56 million people to the mountain.
It all started with the fact that members of the Czech tourist club in 1889 went to Paris and were greatly amazed and delighted with the view of the Eiffel Tower. A copy of it was subsequently built on Petřín Hill, and subsequently, in less than a year, a cable car was built. The carriage on rails with surprising ease lifted 50 passengers to a height of 102 meters at a time. Its peculiarity was that the cables rotated with a water wheel. In connection with the First World War in 1916, the road first stopped its work, and only in 1932 it was restarted, but with an electric motor and slightly elongated (up to 551 m).
In 1965, landslides destroyed part of the rail track, and only 20 years later did the historical funicular work again. Since then, it has been working and is part of the entire urban transport system.
The longest cable car in the world: photos
There is in Armenia, near the city of Goris, an amazing monastery (IX-XIII centuries), called Tatevsky. Until 2009, it was abandoned for a long time and began to gradually collapse. According to the approved draft program called Tatev’s Revival, the cable car was built here in 2010. She led to this beautiful monastery, located in the rocks. Almost immediately after the opening, the cableway with the name "Tatev’s Wings" was listed as the longest cableway in the world in the Guinness Book of Records. Its length is almost 6000 meters. It connects 2 villages - Tatev and Halidzor.
320 meters is its highest height over the gorge. The maximum speed of the cabin, accommodating at the same time 25 passengers - 37 km per hour. It goes all the way in a little over 11 minutes.
Before this path appeared to Tatev, people traveled along a steep serpentine, which runs along a cliff with a slope of 45 degrees, which often eroded in winter. Today Tatev can be visited all year round. Cable cars are free for locals.
The longest cable car in Europe
The length of this cableway is 3661 meters. It should be noted for comparison that the road length is seven times longer and is approximately 27,000 meters.
In Nizhny Novgorod, the longest cableway in Russia has been built to date. It is the only one in Europe with a span of 861.21 meters above the water surface, which is why it is included in the Book of Records of Europe and Russia.
There are 28 booths automatically illuminated and equipped with radio communications, and each of them can accommodate 8 people. The movement is carried out at a speed of up to 22 km per hour.
The largest cable car in Europe (see photo above) with the longest span above the water surface was created for the convenience of local residents. The road connects Bor and Nizhny Novgorod, located on two opposite banks of the Volga.
Conclusion
What progress has come to! Who would have thought that in such a relatively short time amazing constructions could have appeared, allowing people to move around the most inaccessible and impassable places: between huge peaks, over the jungle, between islands over the water surface of the sea and even in cities.