Copacabana Beach
Copacabana is a bairro (neighborhood) in Rio de Janeiro: in the South Zone of the city. Its 4 km (2.5 miles) beach is the most famous.
… more pix n videos on Google Maps, Yelp,
I’m impressed by how clean the beach is when we get there in the morning! … evening is another story.
Of course, there is this statue of their famed son Ayrton Senna (1960-94), who died on the race track …our first stop in Rio is to visit him.
Numerous vendors who sell beverage, bathing suits, hat, or rent chairs all take credit cards. Our last night there, nearly dark, as I was renting a paddle board, a woman pushed a chair at my husband who sat down, thinking they’re one groups. But nope, she then came to collect the rent, with her co-workers who don’t look nice and one of them has a credit card reader. lol… Language barrier is one thing, forced consumption is another. At that hour, the beach is empty and plenty places to sit …
We’re there the first thing in the morning is because we’ve to pick up the carnival ticket – you could purchase it online but they require you to pick it up in person, in a hotel in the Copacabana neighborhood. Can’t they issue you A barcode, instead? Some kind of thinking that hard to fathom, especially given the fact handheld credit card reader that every single vendor uses.
The ticket pickup place is a hotel very close to the Beach, so afterward, we go there and walk much of it (from R. Rodolfo Dantas, passing by Cantón) to the northern end, and have lunch at Colombo @ the Forte.
… the pristine beach in day time in the video … and night in the photo, which is pretty dirty.
