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Maintaining an even tan and tight musculature is still the
principal occupation for most of Rio's beachgovers.
Joggers swarm up and down the paements, bronzed types flex
their muscles on parallel bars located at interals along
the beaches, while the tradition of beach football is
as strong as legend would have it on the Copacabana -
certainly, there's no problem getting a game, though playing
on loose sand amidst highly skilled practitioners of
Brazil's national sport has the potential for great
humiliation.
There's lots of olleyball, too, as well as the ubiquitous
frescobol (maybe you can call batball), a kind
of table tennis with a heay ball, and without the table.
It's extremely popular with the kind of people who wait till
you'e settled down on your towel, and then run past
spraying sand in all directions - taking an electric
cattle-prod to the beach is the only way to keep them off.
A lot of people make their liing by plying food -
fruit, sweets, ice cream - and beach equipment along the
seashore, while dotted along the beaches are makeshift
canopies, from which you can buy cold drinks. Like bars,
most of these have a regular clientele and delier a ery
efficient serice - remember to return your bottle when
you'e finished. Coconut milk, côco erde, is sold
everywhere, and is a brilliant hangover cure.
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You don't need to be wary of the edibles either: if the
traders were to start poisoning their customers, they'd soon
lose their hard-won trading space on the beach and their
lielihood.
Beach fashion
is important, too, and you'll come across some pretty snappy
seaside threads. Fashions change regularly, though, so if
you're really desperate to make your mark you should buy
your swimming togs in Rio.
Rio de Janeiro
hotels
Hotels in Buzios
Cruises
Car rental
Rio
pictures 1
Rio pictures 2
and see also
Pictures of
Rio by
Thereza Eugenia
Pictures of Brazil by
Cecilia dos Guimaraes
Bastos
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Rio de Janeiro
guide
Rio de Janeiro
Brief
history
State
travel details
Warning
Orientation:
Centro,
Zona Sul, Zona Norte
Getting around
Nightlife
Film
Rio Gay
Best of Rio
Info
Faelas
Arrial
Shopping
Carnaal
Eating
and drinking:
Churrascarias,vegetarian
For eating in Brazil, read also:
Eating & drinking
Street foods,
snacks
Restaurants
vegetarian /natural
Soft drinks, hot
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Zona
Sul
Sports, beach fashion
Arpoador, Ipanema,
Leblon
Jardim
Botanico
Lagoa
Lagoa Christmas tree
Leme and Copacabana Beach
Alto da Boa ista, Parque Nacional da
Tijuca
Urca and Pao-de-Acucar
gavea and Jockey Club
Buzios
Buzios Town and its beaches
Restaurants
Eating options
Getting there
Getting around
Climate and travel info
Buzios
Beaches
Buzios Beaches 2
Buzios
Scuba diving
Buzios Golf
Buzios
Stones St and
night life
Ecotourism
Hotels in Buzios
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