The world’s high­est and longest urban gon­do­la, Mi Tele­feri­co was designed to fer­ry pas­sen­gers from the cen­ter of La Paz to the dis­trict of El Alto, high above the city. Pre­vi­ous­ly, get­ting there involved a long, slow jour­ney up a nar­row, zigzag­ging road. The 11-kilo­­me­ter-long gon­do­la, which opened in 2014, cost $234 mil­lion to build and can car­ry 18,000 pas­sen­gers an hour. Although its main pur­pose is to cut com­mute times for local work­ers, it’s espe­cial­ly pop­u­lar with tourists, thanks to the fan­tas­tic views of the snow-capped Andes.