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Passing another car — Passing another car

cable car excursion funchal madeira monte portugal ride tour wire

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Here we go! — Here we go!

cable car excursion funchal madeira monte portugal ride tour wire

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Getting on! — Getting on!

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Cable car selfie! — Cable car selfie!

cable car excursion funchal madeira monte portugal ride selfie tour

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Cable car — Cable car

This is the way to get all the way down the mountain. It's a very long cable car ride over the tops of the houses.

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Neat pic! — Neat pic!

I just like the picture. To me it looks very Disney "World of Tomorrow" fron the 50's.

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Old olive trees — Old olive trees

We walked past the toboggan baskets and saw these incredibly old olive trees. Neat!

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Back to the top — Back to the top

They loaded the toboggans on to a truck and drove them back to the top!

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Baskets end — Baskets end

We walked by the end of the basket ride. Where people were getting off the baskets.

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Back to the toboggans — Back to the toboggans

We were kinda going in circles.

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Nice view — Nice view

Headed to our newxt stop.

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Toboggans and cars — Toboggans and cars

When we backed up there was a toboggan coming right for us with three cars behind it!

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Traffic jam — Traffic jam

The roads are very narrow. We turned the corner and we were face-to-face with another bus. We had to back up.

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Back on the bus! — Back on the bus!

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Cool — Cool

There was a bit of a traffic jam but I like the picture of the toboggans and the drivers.

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Cars! — Cars!

Those cars also go on the road. They just kinda look out for the toboggans.

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Video — Video

Of course we took video. (Link does not work in thumbnail.)

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baskets funchal madeira monte portugal ride sled toboggans wicker

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Here we go! — Here we go!

The basket is pushed and steered by to men. The trip takes about 10 minutes to get down the mountain. It's about 2km long and the basket can go up to 48km/hour.

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The toboggans! — The toboggans!

We were not sure what to expect on the toboggans. We hadn't read anything about them but we were excited!

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Swans! — Swans!

I think they wanted us to feed them but everyone just took pictures.

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