Tuesday, July 8, 2014

July 8: Copacabana beach & National Library

To the Beach!
Our hotel is the greatest! We live so close to the Copacabana beach that we decided to go there for the day, and were not disappointed!
As you can see the beach is quite amazing to look at, but even better to play in!
When we woke up we of course ate our free meal and then returned to our rooms to get ready for our trip to the beach. It was a very short distance so we decided to walk there. It was jam packed! Most likely because of the World cup going on, in which I was extremely exited to go to. We stayed at the beach for hour and then took a break to eat lunch at a small vendor that was walking by with his little cart. After that we stayed some more until about 3 o'clock.


Copacabana beach
Copacabana beach is such a wonder place that that has so many cool things about it. First of all is the New Years Eve part on of course, New Years Eve! It a really fun time where people stay up all night a socialize on the street listen to other perform. There is usually a huge concert with a well know band that plays, attracting a couple million people! Another cool thing about this beach is that it was originally called Sacopenapã which means "the way of the socós (a kind of bird)". There are also two historic forts build on both end of it, Fort Copacabana and Fort Duque de Caxias.

After the beach we dried ourselves and then wandered the streets, looking for souvenir shops to buy souvenirs. After we bought our little trinkets we headed to a fancy restaurant to eat and returned to the hotel to relax until we went to sleep.