Up and down hills and mountains
Mountain trains
Some cities are on hills or mountains. Some of these cities have special mountain trains.
This mountain train is in the city of Tbilisi in Georgia. The
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station
at the top of the mountain is 727 meters high.
Mountain train in Tbilisi
This track is only 500 meters long, but it is 300 meters high!
People use the mountain train to visit the theme park that is on the top of the mountain. It has water slides, a roller coaster and a Ferris wheel.
The theme park on top of the mountain in Tbilisi
Escalators
Lots of buildings in cities have escalators
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inside
but this enormous escalator in Medellín in Colombia is
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outside
The outside elevator in Medellín
It’s 384 meters long. The houses in this part of the city are on a big hill. The hill is very
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steep
so cars and buses can’t go up it, and there isn’t a train.
The hill is too steep for cars, buses or trains
Some outside escalators only go one way at a time, but sometimes they go in different directions at different times. This way more people can use the escalators.
It takes 35 minutes to walk up the hill, but now the people can ride up the hill on the escalator in six minutes!
Another city that has a very long escalator is in Hong Kong, which also has a steep hill. A lot of people travel on it every day.
Toboggans
On the
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island
of Madeira you can travel down a steep hill in a traditional
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toboggan
A toboggan in Madeira
The toboggans have two
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seat
They don’t have wheels. They have runners made of
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wood
Two men
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push
a toboggan.
Two men pushing a toboggan
The men pushing the toboggan are called ‘carreiros’. They wear special shoes that help them to steer and control the speed of the toboggan.
This kind of transportation is very fast! The toboggans can travel at 48 kilometers an hour!
This kind of transportation is very popular with tourists because it’s fun and a different way to travel.
