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Copacabana Beach New Years Eve

February 13, 2015 by David Herd

Copacabana-new years eve-2007-Rio-Brazil

A wonderful unique experience

Copacabana Beach New Years Eve

Copacabana Beach New Years Eve and the cruise ships are arriving. Nine huge floating palaces drop anchor to watch tonight’s spectacle. Music fireworks & noise.

Lovely hostess

I paid $400 for a ticket to a cocktail party on the 12th floor overlooking Copacabana beach. The lovely lady above let me visit the venue mid afternoon to take some photos.

Sugarloaf Mountain

Mid afternoon and you can see the crowd building up. Two million people are expected to gather tonight at Copacabana most of whom will be wearing white.

Around 4 pm the crowd builds up

Through the afternoon the crowd starts to build.

More ships arrive

Nine huge ships arrived for the show.

A burning question

Sergio, we are in Copacabana Beach New Years Eve, do you think our ship will ever come in?

Now here is how we are going to handle troublemakers

Final instruction at 5.30 pm, the Rio cops are a very mean bunch.

The shadows cover the beach

The anticipation is building, you can fell the excitement in the air.

Going home to freshen up

Copacabana Beach New Years Eve an d as far as I’m concerned she is dressed perfectly.

The party begins

Here is where I am watching the celebration, lots of food and booze, after all we did pay $400. 🙂

Here they come

I have never seen a crowd this big anywhere before.

More and more all dressed in white

Copacabana Beach New Years Eve and millions come to celebrate.

The excitement is building & more people arrive

I was in the perfect spot to see everything.

Standing room only

What a night it was, worth every cent.

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I’m happy to be above the crowd

Let the games begin.

KERBOOM!!!!!!

The fireworks begins, 2 million people onshore and nine cruise ships anchored off the beach.

Spectacular fireworks

You can see five of the nine cruise ships here in this photo.

Lots of noise

Noise from the Fireworks and the amplified music that is blasting out from huge speakers along the beach.

Here is the live action

Copacabana Rio Di Janeiro in Brazil, NYE, an awesome experience

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Copacabana Beach New Years Eve and the beat goes on

The noise was quite incredible.

The show went on for hours

I left around 1 am knowing I had seen the most spectacular NYE celebration in my life. The Sydney fireworks is certainly superior however when you add two million screaming people into the mix at one of the world’s great beaches it is game over.