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Copacabana Beach New Years Eve

February 13, 2015 by David Herd

A wonderful unique experience

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.

I hope you enjoyed my NYE experience

Of course for sheer drama and chaos check out Sydney New Year’s Eve 1981.

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Author: David Herd

My history, particularly over the last 30 years is dominated by overseas travel. I sold my home in Australia October 20th 2011 and have have been living in Thailand since then. I don’t know where the time has gone? It seems like you go to sleep one night, wake up the next morning, and 20 years have flashed by. Not sure how many years I have left, however I have enjoyed a wonderful charmed life, and if it all ended today I would leave this world with no regrets. I was born in Sydney halfway through the last century, started my travels in the 60s with the usual U.K. Europe adventure at the age of 20, back to Australia and worked in Sydney, Melbourne & Adelaide in Sales & Marketing with multinational companies including Sanyo, Canon & Remington. Engaged to be married 3 times and never quite made it to the alter, finally realized by the mid 90s I was not cut out for "long term relationships" so I moved to the Gold Coast in Queensland in January 1987, worked for a couple of banks as a Financial Planner, I took a year off work in 1998 to travel and never went back to full time work again, after 25 fun filled years on the Coast I packed up and moved to Thailand. What is the purpose of this blog? Well I really want to use it to record my travel experiences & to display my photographs, give and receive travel tips, comment on places I visit, restaurants I eat in and use it to replace the autobiography I intended to write, apart from all that it helps me fill in my day. :) I moved to Thailand mainly because I wanted to keep travelling while my health allowed me to, there are huge advantages being closer to all the places I want to visit. Cost of living in Thailand is around 35% of the cost in Australia, plus flights are 50% cheaper because you are much closer to everywhere. ???? Consequently I am able to travel to many more places compared to living in Australia. Having said all that, it is & has always been my intention to return to Australia when my travelling is finished, I predict this will happen around 2021.

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