Pao de Acucar

Pao de Acucar (Sugarloaf Mountain 糖麵包山) is a peak situated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the mouth of Guanabara Bay (瓜納巴拉灣) on a peninsula that sticks out into the Atlantic Ocean. Rising 396 metres (1,299 ft) above the harbor, it shapes like concentrated refined loaf sugar.

The mountain is only one of several hills of granite and quartz that rise straight from the water's edge around Rio de Janeiro. A glass-walled cable car (teleférico), capable of holding 65 passengers, runs along a 1400-metre route between the peaks of Pão de Açúcar and Morro da Urca every 20 minutes. The original cable car line was built in 1912 and rebuilt around 1972/1973 and in 2008. The cable car leaves a ground station located at the base of the Babilônia hill, to the Urca hill and then to the Pão de Açúcar.

Passengers must take two cable cars to reach the summit. The first ascends to the shorter Morro da Urca, 220 meters high while the second ascends to Pão de Açúcar. The Italian-made bubble-shaped cars offer passengers 360-degree views of the surrounding city. The climb takes three minutes from start to finish. Departures are available every 20 minutes between 8:00 am and 8:00 pm and the adult fare is 44 Reals ( for the whole way to Pão de Açúcar.