Be on the beach in Brazil - Discover Brazil -

Rio de janeiro is a city ringed by beaches or, perhaps more accurately, Rio de Janeiro is beaches that ring a city. Beaches define Rio, so much so that three straight days of rain on a holiday weekend is considered not just depressing, but downright apocalyptic. It’s so beach-oriented that it’s not unusual to be on the sand – or at least next to it – several times on the same days, even on a weekday: a run along the shore in the morning, a dip in the water after work, and a gathering with your friends in the evening.

To be a true Brazilian, specifically a “Carioca” a native of Rio de Janeiro – it’s not enough to go to the beach and act like you might in Miami or southern California or any other beach in the world, definitely not. You need to “do the beach” Brazilian style. In other words, the beach is not a place. It’s an activity.

Let’s start with what to wear. Women wear an American-cut bikini at your own risk. Brazilian think covering so much of your rear side is absurd. If you hear someone snickering behind your (fully covered) behind, you are right to be paranoid: they are probably talking about you. The problem is that the Brazilian cut takes some getting used to: chances are the last time you showed so much skin to the world you were a toddler. By the way, it’s no coincidence that Brazilians call American-style bikini bottoms diapers.

It helps to look around. Sure, plenty of Brazilian women’s bodies were seemingly designe to reveal 95% of their butt and show off their hips just so. But don’t be fooled: plenty of Brazilian are far from perfect too. Yet they wear the bikinis anyway, with a unique sense of Brazilian “beach confidence” that comes from a culture more comfortable with sex and bodies.

Luckily, there is an out that will allow you to ease into revealing yourself. If you don’t happen to have that Brazilian “beach confidence” yet, the good news is that Brazilian women always carry canga “brazilian beach towel”. This Brazilian sarong can be wrapped around your torso any-which-way, and it conveniently double as a compact beach blanket. Men and women wear Canga on the beach.

CANGAS

The male equivalent to the Brazilian cut bikini is the sunga. If you happen to be a swimmer, or at least swam on the swim team during your childhood summers, you are well acquainted with a speedo, but you probably don’t wear one to the beach. I could explain how a sunga is cut differently and is much more attractive than a Speedo, but I’d be wasting my breath. But you are lucky, guys, that with the influence of surfing, more and more Brazilians are wearing surf trunks on the beach. And some sungas are being cut more like shorts these days as well, so maybe you will get up the nerve.

For footwear, there is only one thing everyone does wear: Havaianas, the by-far-most-popular brand of flip-flops. Originally, Havaianas were the downscale footwear that only the poor and youthful wore. That has changed in the past year, thanks to a brilliant marketing campaign that led fashionistas around the world to pop on Havainas as an essential fashion accessory. Everyone followed their lead. And not just in brazil – now you can buy Havainas just about anywhere.

Aside from your Canga and Havainas, you don’t need to bring much to the beach. There are an entire industry devoted to taking care of our needs. Stands that serves beach goers with chairs, beach umbrellas and drinks ( caipirinha – typical Brazilian drink) along nearby stretches of sand, somehow managing to keep a tab for you all day if you wish. Meanwhile, any number of vendors will be coming by, hawking sunglasses and bikinis, food and drinks.

They Brazilians are very connected with the beach. But the beach for us it is not only to laid back place. It’s hug gym. we can run on the soft sand, practice sports, swim in the ocean and do several sets of push-ups, chin-ups, and dips everywhere along the coast of Brazil.

If you are in a big cities. Please never leave your belongs alone on the beach. Always make sure you have someone watching your belongs during you are swimming or you are away from your belongs.

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