View down onto Ipanema Beach. I have been to beaches all over the place (Caribbean, Mexico, Italy, US...) and never seen anything like this. It took me 5 minutes to go 300 yards from street to ocean because it was so packed.
You can buy anything you want on the beach. Just raise your hand and someone runs over. It's quite something and it's inside the city limits of Rio, a really big city (6.5 million in the city, 12+ in metro area).
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