Sunday, November 3, 2013

Rio De Janeiro Is Such An Amazing Destination For New Year's Eve

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By Grace Charvin


Christmas and New Year's Eve is almost upon us. Are you like me and starting to save for the upcoming holidays? In recent times New Year's Eve for me has been a time for relaxing and enjoying the night in my favourite restaurant back home with family and a few friends. Last New Year's Eve my friend Lucy and I went to Rio De Janeiro for New Year's Eve. If you are thinking of doing a South American New Year's Eve, but unsure about where you want to go, well stop thinking about it, because Rio De Janeiro is the only place to be in South America for New Year's Eve. Let me tell you, it is easily the best New Year's Eve I have experienced and I cannot wait to do it all again.

As we all know, Rio de Janeiro is renowned for the awesome celebrations all year round, including early in the year with the Rio Carnival. Nevertheless, New Year's Eve is absolutely massive in Rio and on Copacabana Beach people gather and celebrate together by drinking, samba dancing, watching the fireworks at midnight, and much more. The firework display in this place is really cool, as they use expensive and very colorful fireworks, and these really last a long time in the night sky and light up around the beach.

Accommodation is a plenty at Copacabana Beach and there are plenty of decent hotels close to the beach. Copacabana Beach is big with the tourists and we stayed in a brilliant 4 star hotel right on the beach. The hotel was one word, AMAZING! It was so worth the extra money. We had a great view of the beach and the whole area. We were thinking going to the big New Year's Eve party they had on at the hotel that looked great, but as the party entrance fee was around $1100 USD we decided to give it a miss and just spent the night out on the beach. Although our hotel was pricey there were quite a lot of affordable hotels to stay that are close by to the beach. Some of these cheaper hotels are pretty old, but still do the job you need and are pretty affordable on most budgets.

What makes South America an awesome place for New Year's Eve is that during this time of year, the weather in northern hemisphere countries is cold and often caked in snow. That's why many vacationers will spend their holidays at tropical locations, like Rio de Janeiro. The weather is consistently hot during the holidays, and vacationers will love to swim at the beach all day and night. Rio de Janeiro is one of the best warm weather locations to stay during New Year's Eve.

I know we wasted a lot of time hanging out at the beach, but our trip wasn't just all about swimming at the beach all the time as there was plenty of other things to do in Rio De Janeiro. We decided to do a mountain hike up Sugar Loaf Mountain and this was such an awesome trip. If you want to do some hiking then definitely head to Sugar Loaf Mountain. Also after we did some hiking we took a train ride up Corcovado mountain one day to see the Christ the Redeemer statue. This was so worth it, as you get a great view of the whole city up there.

Hey guys, take my word for it, I can highly recommend you check out Rio De Janeiro for your next New Year's Eve vacation.




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