Decorating the decoration

Even this changing room on Copacabana Beach already decorated with the signature wavy pattern of the sidewalk isn't immune from further decoration!

Sorry about the car in the foreground but as is the case with many of my photographs, I had to catch the scene on the fly from our bus.

Soldier

This dramatic statue of a dying soldier was in the median of the boulevard that borders Copacabana Beach and it was right in front of our hotel. It is the "18 do Forte" Statue symbolizing soldiers dying for the modernization of Brazil and the fight against corrupt politicians in 1922.

Bike billboards

As we stood in front of our hotel we saw three bicyclists (tricyclists?) going down the bike lanes next to the wavy sidewalk each sporting a pretty big billboard.

Copacabana sidewalk

Our hotel in Rio de Janeiro was on Copacabana Beach. When I say 'on the beach' I mean it was across the street and across this wide sidewalk, just like every other hotel that is 'on the beach'. The wavy design of Copacabana's sidewalk is known the world over. You may notice a narrow curbed two-lane 'road' between the walkway and the street: this is a bicycle and running path. Most of the South American cities we visited had them.

Copacabana

The view from Sugar Loaf is spectacular and as you can see Rio is worth seeing from a height! This is beautiful Copacabana Beach; not only did we see it from here, we saw it up close because our hotel was right on the beach. More about that later.