it's the main road of copacabana
we're doing a little walk along the promenade
we are getting two queijo sticks he has this little portable grill
good morning guys today we are going to have a beach day we are gonna walk around copacabana
which is a famous beach here in rio there will be a lot to explore tons of people it's a sunday
so it's gonna be crowded but with covid maybe a little bit different i don't know
so today we're gonna start off by walking around copacabana and ipanema the reason we're picking
those places as our first in rio is because they are the safest historically it's where
tourists would hang out where the parties are the beaches a lot of that kind of stuff
so it's a good way to break in our trip in rio to start out in those places have a little bit of fun
and kind of get our bearings on this city before we venture further out
welcome to copacabana so look at this road here it's the main road of copacabana and we read
that it closes on sunday today happens to be sunday so that's awesome on these days there are
more people out there skating they're bicycling around here and no cars to get in the way the
street is full of people right now instead of watching for cars you watch for people yeah
you have to look both ways before you cross for people not cars
so all along this strip there are tons of these beach bars with fun lively music
amazing drinks fried food appetizers stuff like that
copacabana seems like one of the most fun places in the world people are just partying
dancing a lot of music playing going to the beach like what is more fun than that
so much color they're selling things selling towels all these restaurants are playing music so
we can't wait to show you a lot more of what this has to offer
there are so many of these restaurants they all have to compete with the alcohol so you'll
see that the caipirinhas they're pretty much 10 royal which is like two dollars across the board
hey so we're doing a new thing since we basically travel on a budget
we wanted to show you guys how we travel how much it actually costs
to travel so that you know that you can actually travel yourself on any budget
so we're going to start breaking down our costs at the end of each video to show you what we
spent for that day so at the end of each of our videos we'll be putting the total from each video
so watch the end to see that at copacabana there's so many of these workout stations
looks like a hard workout can you figure this out how does it work well i figure you go like
more like this stretcher look at that maybe it's just for looks so people think you're really
working out but you're not yeah there's got to be a way to add weight still doesn't require much
over on this side of this mountain is sugarloaf we're gonna go there uh probably another day
but we see that you can walk around this thing get a view of the ocean so i think we're gonna
do that really quick before we get on the beach and show you the rest of copacabana
this is a beautiful walk we're on we're rounding
lette which is a fort but you just have a bunch of this rock here a walkway here
and then you have some surfers over here we'll try to catch something
so before we go out into the beach area we're really looking forward to that but
we're doing a little walk along the promenade or the boardwalk and that is 2.5 miles long so
you could walk that in about an hour and a half to two hours one way
lots of good people watching lots of good food to walk by drinks it's amazing we love it
so most likely it's going to take a lot longer than that because you're going to be stopping
getting food having drinks and all that so it's definitely an all day thing to spend
your time walking along the boardwalk here going to the beach and all of that we highly recommend
spending a day at least a day in copacabana if you have the time while you're in rio de janeiro
so we've noticed one thing while walking along the copacabana beach brazilians love their soccer and
beach volleyball all along the beach there are nuts set up and they're pretty much filled with
people playing it looks really fun they've even done something like they've turned a ping-pong
table into like a a soccer table like head the ball back and forth and with their body
pretty good too so it's the same with the volleyball it's like they're doing it with
their feet like it's a football that's pretty cool they're really into it here
so we're gonna look for a beach blanket to grab and take to the beach so we can lay
out we asked a local what we should be paying for these and he said about five six dollars
i didn't try to barter too much because it's already pretty cheap
you'd just be arguing over a dollar or two so
now that we got our lovely beautiful beach blanket we are ready to go lay out and enjoy some drinks
so for the first time we're really gonna step on this sand right now ah we've been waiting for this
so as we were walking around my flip flop broke so i had to walk barefoot for a little
ways and then i found a shop that carried these javianas these are a very popular brand in brazil
got them for like five dollars we've been seeing them all over the place but the cool
thing about these which is why we thought we should get them or lindsay should get them is
that little brazil flag that's pretty cool built into it like that
you're selling these swimsuits right by the ocean i don't know if those will fit so these chairs i
think you have to pay for them to actually rent a chair but since we have our blankets
and like we thought there might be some food drink water out here
there's somebody crossing right over here we don't know what he's selling yet but let's check it out
all right let's test out the water we talked to somebody who said that
the water here is actually cold so we're gonna put that to the test and find out
alex forgot a sunscreen today so
not fun not fun getting sunburnt all right we are comfortable now
and we are gonna start looking to see where we can order a drink on the beach
these people are coming by with drinks with hats sunglasses different things but we want to
make sure they're right so we're waiting for the right drink to come by one that really calls to us
yeah that looks good dropping places oh so it's like a bread cheese
okay
he has this little portable grill thing that he brings around some cheese and oregano in there
and it cooks and it's going to be three dollars for two of them
okay that actually looks really good i've never had something like this all right let's go sit
down with it yeah my hands are too full to try right now okay now let's try our queso
queso is cheese so he took this block of cheese he stuck it in oregano and then he fried it
so much flavor as always coming out of the fried cheese in south america awesome
it tastes like a like a cheesy bread breadstick without the bread yeah
tastes like it should go on pizza
there's another guy selling the fried cheese with this little cooker there
i don't know how they do it they just carry that around and it's it stays hot
and it's ready to cook they don't plug it in or anything they're all self-sufficient here
so when you go to the beach here in copacabana they have places like this
these little squares here these little huts where they sell drinks you can either go right
up to those or you can wait for them to come around and you might have someone come around
who will ask you if you want drinks if you're just sitting here on the beach so either way but
if you talk to them they might give you a better price because the caipirinhas on the menu it said
they were 17 but he just said he would give it to us for 10. so not bad prices are never firm
nobody got up these here are maracuyas are they going to be strong like all the
other ones we've had probably pretty good though that has a strong flavor
that's the real deal look at all these seeds in here
all the seeds at the bottom there
dang near perfect drink to look at the beach
meat you meat
is
so if you want a little bit of spice you can use
something like that might be too spicy for lindsay so we'll do one side for me all right
let me just rip off a piece oh yeah meat
a lot of the foods here are just red meat and cheese which is good
yeah we paid a dollar for this cheers real
is
abrigado
all the locals warn us which is super nice he told me to put my purse very close to me
so that no one can take anything so they're watching out for us i have been keeping a
close eye on it but it was next to me instead of like in between my legs but he was like
spider-man walking across the beach they come to us
okay we were trying to end the video but then that guy was too nice and entertaining
we got two of these for four dollars they're caipirinhas mine's lemon and his is strawberries
how beautiful they are yeah we have a little strawberry there or maybe that's an apple but
it says a strawberry and then uh a lemon a lime that's more of a traditional one
all right guys the sun is going down we've had a lot of drinks
and food and i think we're ready to go back pretty soon we're leaving with a sunburn and
i don't know what else all right thank you for watching we are going to be showing you a lot
more of rio today was more of a chill day but we're going to be doing some food tours more
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