A Cable Car ride to Sugarloaf Mountain is a must do on your first trip to Rio de Janeiro. This post shares our firsthand experience and everything you will need to know.

Tiana Martins stepped gingerly into the red cable-car gondola ... shacks that is the Alemao complex of shantytowns bear Rio De Janeiro. Three years ago, the communities below made national ...

In the hills of Rio de Janeiro's Complexo do Alemão stands a cable car that once ferried passengers from the favela to the city. It cut a trip that originally took hours down to just 16 minutes.

With cable cars soaring swiftly to the quarter ... It was at the foot of the Sugarloaf that Portuguese explorers founded the city of Rio de Janeiro in 1565. And, just as Rio in its early days ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Tiana Martins stepped gingerly into the red cable-car gondola, giggling from nerves as the doors slid shut, the ground dropped precipitously beneath her feet and she sailed ...

Medellín ran a careful consultation process with residents prior to building its cable car to make sure the community would be on board. This wasn’t the case in Rio de Janeiro, residents say.

That’s how easy it is to plan your sightseeing in Rio ... Sugar Loaf (Pão de Açúcar) takes place in two stages, starting at the Praia Vermelha beach. The first cable car ascends to Morro ...

One of Rio de Janeiro's largest slums - the Complexo do Alemão - is now home to a 3.5 km long cable car system. It will save residents hours of journey time each day as they avoid steep and ...

About 40 passengers have escaped unhurt from a broken cable car suspended halfway up Rio de Janeiro's famous Sugar Loaf mountain. The group, most of them foreign tourists from Japan, the US and Canada ...

The monument rests atop Corcovado Mountain in the Tijuca National Park and is the most famous attraction in Rio de Janeiro, visited by nearly 2 million people each year. Recent travelers recommend ...