The largest aerial tramway in the world launched in Vietnam

Vietnam launched the largest aerial tramway in the world, a public transportation suspended from a distance of about 190 meters from the ground. The tramway is circulating on a cable suspended above Halong Bay, an area visited by 7 million tourists annually and a UNESCO world heritage site.

The initiators of this amazing project are the Austrian engineering company Doppelmayr/Garaventa experts renowned for the gondola systems for ski areas in the Swiss Alps. The Ha Long Queen Cable Car is suspended by a pair of massive concrete towers. More, the tram cars themselves are the largest ever constructed as they can carrying 230 people on each 15-minute trip across the bay.

The aerial tram was built in a year and a half and costed 282 million dollars, writes the local media. It travels a distance of over 2 km in 15 minutes over the city Halong Bay Halong Bay. Ha Long Bay is a Unesco world heritage site renowned the world over for its beautiful 1,600+ limestone islands. The area welcomes roughly 7 million tourists a year.

In October 2011, World Monuments Fund included the bay on the 2012 World Monuments Watch, citing tourism pressures and associated development as threats to the site that must be addressed. The goal of Watch-listing is to promote strategies of responsible heritage-driven development for a sustainable future. In 2012, New 7 Wonders Foundation officially named Halong Bay as one of New Seven Natural Wonders of the world.