In 2007, four new Sugar Loaf cable cars with the same 1972 design were bought from Switzerland to Brazil and these are the ones you will take when visiting Sugar Loaf in Rio de Janeiro. The glass bubble-shape design (gondola-type) has become a trademark of Sugar Loaf Mountain, known in Brazil and abroad.
The current Sugar Loaf cable cars are very appealing — really first world. In fact, in Brazil you find modern facilities as well as third world ones. Fortunately, the two cable cars that take you to the summit of Sugar Loaf Mountain are new, modern, safe and reliable (so are the other two that you take to come back to ground level).
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