RIO'S FAMOUS BEACHES! COPACABANA & IPANEMA (TRAVEL BRAZIL)
good morning everyone so today we are back with the videos from here in rio and we've come to the world famous Copacabana probably the most popular beach in brazil yeah i think so by far, for us not the most beautiful but it is the the most famous and it's been a long time since we've been here when was the last time we came to this beach do you remember? two years ago when we were staying in the place i think it was in the building over there we rented an apartment yeah beachfront yeah it was a very nice apartment and yeah we we were going to the beach almost every day because we were right here but on this trip it's the first time that we're going to copacabana beach yeah we've been here almost two months yeah yeah it's crazy so it is a weekday if you come here on a weekend this road is closed so yeah that's really good it's like a big walking street but yeah not today so since it is a weekday the beach is pretty empty for copacabana standard anyway on weekends this place is just jam-packed still got the people doing the sports though so that's very common here the baton ball ah these guys are doing it with a net like a tennis yeah sometimes they do it without the net so we found our spot here right at the front it's a bit misty today isn't it yeah yeah the forecast showed it's going to be super sunny i mean it's kind of sunny but yeah just very misty so here on the beach they have these places called bahakas which are kind of like these little stores and then you can rent these chairs here these little metal chairs drinks they also have showers as well i think you can buy snacks as well but even on the beach there's loads of vendors i mean these two are vendors here selling clothes but also people selling drinks and um a bit of everything right the vendors there's many options like for everyone yeah every kind of food yeah so they're just walking by all the time the vendors yeah the ocean's a bit rough today you can see nobody is really swimming check out those waves so here people surf but it's more towards the the corners down there and also down there in leme so this isn't really a beach where i would leave your belongings unattended but what you can do if you're alone you can leave it with a family that's what i used to do when i would come here alone just ask them just say oh can you keep an eye on this keep it with a family and then you can come in and swim. Me and carol could do that now if we wanted to we could give our bags to someone that's close by and then swim together but yeah not today so we decided to get some beach food snacks i got this uh brazilian thing called coxinha de frango so it has a chicken inside not exactly sure what the the outside is made out of but yeah it's really tasty really common here in brazil and i got the bolinha de queijo which is like a cheese ball and it's not a little cheeseball it's a big one yeah it's a big cheese ball the same as mine right but mine just has chicken inside and yours has cheese yeah yeah and oh this was 25 Reais we got four overall carol has another one in there but there are other cheaper options we saw a hamburger yeah three for ten three hamburgers for ten reais. yeah i'm not sure if it's a good one but you can find cheaper options yeah but that seems cheap for the beach because normally the beach in brazil is more expensive so we're just going on a little walk now to a spot to rent a bike we're gonna head to a place nearby that has a little trail that i think we did like five years ago yeah and this is what i would do when i lived here in rio pretty much every sunday i would come to the beach and I would have like music on my headphones and i'd be walking up and down this beach and ipanema pretty much every weekend that's what i do but now i have good company so around the city of rio you get these spots here where you can rent the bike a lot of people use it so there's never really that many bikes around but yeah we got our two here so you just have to sign up to this app here where it tells you how many bytes are in each one you can click on it and then it gives you a code and then you just put the code in there and it unlocks it so there's a few different plans we did one for 20 Reais that gives you the bike for two days for 48 hours because we're probably gonna use it tomorrow and then you can ride it for like two hours at a time there is another one that you pay like three Reais for every 15 minutes if you're gonna be using it less you can get that one and there's also like monthly plans that are even cheaper if you're going to be using it a lot so yeah loads of different options so now we're at lagoa rodrigo de freitas huge lake here that's right between Copacana and ipanema and this is also a very popular spot here in rio so there's this really nice walkway and cycleway all the way around the lake and yeah those people come here to walk to exercise yeah if you want you can also rent these little boats here like pedal boats so it only took about 15 minutes riding the bike it was super close and we're right next to the park as well so it's this big green area here that's what we're gonna enter i think the viewpoints up there if you look around look at these huge like mountains everywhere one over there as well i think you can walk up that one i think it's called Maroca okay so check this for a fail it says from tuesday to sunday it's open from 8am to 5pm so we're here on the only day that it's not open monday so we can't do it there goes our plan yeah but the good thing is that rio has so many things to do so we can just do something else that's gonna be awesome either way yeah oh well what was that yes i'll give you a better view of the lake here that little oh yeah what is that ? it was like a duck not not a duck not a duck some weird brazilian tropical bird squeaking so i said lake but i think it's more of a lagoon but yeah you can see it's super huge so i think people do water sports in here like canoeing sometimes they also have the that thing over there yeah i talked about that the paddle swan thing yeah but the water is not it's not proper for swimming so yeah you can't you can't swim in here so i didn't mention but the park that we tried going to is called parque da catacumba so yeah if you come to do the trail just don't come on a monday and then you'll be able to do it it's only like 15 minutes i remember you don't go too high but you still get some pretty nice views the best views in rio though are from these ones over there i think the first one closest to us is dois irmaos and then in the background it's in the clouds right now but that's pedra da gavea that's the tallest one on this coast i think and the trail to get there is a bit hard to to do is like more than two hours i think but we want to do it i've never done it before so we want to do it and we also want to go to the dois irmaos yes i think one of the next videos is going to be a trail to one of those guys the view is supposed to be spectacular so we ended up getting back on the bikes because this lagoon's huge if i remember correctly i think it takes like 45 minutes to an hour to bike around it so to walk around it would take way too long so yeah i think we're gonna bike all the way around we decided to make a quick stop on the lagoon for a fresh coconut i think our first coconut on this trip really nice and sweet and really cold as well and that was six reais only i thought it'd be more here in the like tourist zone but yeah really good price got a pretty good view here as well look just a bit noisy with all the cars behind us so we're now in ipanema i think this part might actually be a neighborhood called leblon but it's joint to ipanema. just like Copacabana it has the portuguese style patterns on the ground i think it's a different kind of design though and the bike right here was really easy because everything's flat here so it's not hard so here it is the famous ipanema beach or as foreigners call it ipanema beach i think i prefer this more than a cabana yeah me too i think because of the view i don't know the two brothers dois irmaos that view is way better than copacabana yeah i love it way bigger yeah and i think usually this is a bit maybe more relaxed yeah it's still crazy yeah on the weekends this is like jam-packed and i don't like to come on the weekends but now it's fine yeah now on the weekday it's pretty empty all right let's go down here the sandbags steps yeah so some of you asked why i moved to brazil and this is pretty much kind of why i was born and raised in manchester in england and we don't really have any beaches or nature like this so i originally came here on a holiday i wasn't supposed to stay here but then i kind of like fell in love with the place and then i ended up just moving here and my mother's brazilian so i've always had a brazilian passport so i could stay here with no problem and then yeah i got a job here i think while i lived there even though i was working i always kind of felt like i was on vacation because i was used to my english background right so even after work in about 15 to 20 minutes i could be on these beaches here so yeah it just kind of always felt like a vacation so carol got herself her second beach snack my favorite one your favorite one yeah which is green corn yeah green corn yeah it's not sweet oh oh yeah the corn here isn't sweet corn yeah so they put a butter and also a bit of salt and it's very tasty how much was that eight reais is that expensive like yeah so here right here is just normal for the beach for brazil it's expensive okay so we both just got some of our favorite the acai and mine was 500 milliliters so that was a 15 reais and carols was 300 milliliters 300 and it was nine reais and now we're going to probably watch the most famous sunset spot in rio which is that big rock over there at the end of the beach of ipanema sunset will be soon oh yeah so i've missed this spot seen many sunsets here before right here let's see behind us loads of people here loads of surfers here as well really good waves today so further up at the top of the rock there's this big viewpoint here nobody here for some reason sun's pretty much gone down now it's gonna get dark soon and it's kind of weird that there's a cactus all over this place yeah it's natural from here yeah the whole thing like all this is cactus i don't think i've seen cactus anywhere else in the city of rio the city only in the areas of buzios that region has it but not in rio but this rock it's just full of it everywhere so i think we're going to head out now before it gets dark probably get a uber back to carol's house and we're not quite sure what we're going to do in the next video we might go to the city center there's quite a lot of historic stuff to see there so yeah possibly that'll be the next video if you like this one just drop a like to support us subscribe like see more videos like this follow us on instagram for more recent updates and we'll see in the next one
2021-10-18 16:38
