CABLE cars aren’t just for ski holidays – this urban one has just opened an hour from the UK and it’s open for tourists.
The next time you’re in the French capital, skip the Metro and hop on this cable car instead.
A new cable car has opened in Paris and it’s the longest in Europe.
It’s called Câble C1 or the Paris Téléphérique and is 4.5km, or 2.79miles long.
The line has 105 gondolas which hold up to 10 people and it was expected to transport 11,000 people per day.
The cable car isn’t actually a tourist attraction and instead was built as an alternative for the Metro.
The line will predominantly be used by residents. All you need to ride the cable car is a bus ticket or travel pass that you’d also be using on the metro, and it will only cost around €2 (£1.74).
The purpose of the cable car is to connect poorly served southeastern suburbs like Créteil and Villeneuve-Saint-Georges.
The journey from Créteil to Villeneuve-Saint-Georges by road takes 40sminutes-– the cable car can do it in 18.
It will fly over four municipalities in the Paris region; Créteil, Limeil-Brévannes, Valenton, and Villeneuve-Saint-Georges.
This is the seventh urban cable car to open in France, it cost a whopping €138million (around £120.8 million) to build.
While this might seem a lot – it’s much less than a new Metro line would have cost to build.
There’s a cable car and caves combo at the heart of the UK that offers an almost similar experience to being in the Alps.
The Heights of Abraham in the Derbyshire Dales installed the UK’s first ever alpine-style cable car 40 years ago to get visitors up to its hilltop park.
You’ll find underground tours, play areas and woodland wanders for you and your family to enjoy.
The unique transport system cuts out the need to scramble up the steep hillside and has even inspired the likes of the London Eye and the cable car at Alton Towers.
The trip to the top takes you over trees, rock formations and the river, with incredible views of the town of Matlock Bath below you and rolling countryside stretching as far as the eye can see.
But the cable car voyage is only the start of a day out with a difference deep in the Derbyshire Dales.
Plus, check out the 1,024-year-old medieval town with terrifying cable car attraction that’s three hours from the UK.
And check out the cheap European city Brits often overlook – with Only Fools and Horses pub and new cable car attraction.