Our Beach Reccommendations Copacabana (take the metro or bus 570). You may walk from Copacabana along the beach, with a little shortcut around the old fortress of Copacabana (which makes a nice visit as well) to Ipanema. Any young Brazilian will tell you that the area around “posto 9” (the showers and watchtowers are numbered from Copacabana all the way...