Praia do Arpoador
Rio de Janeiro
Donatas Dabravolskas / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
A short beach beside the Arpoador point, at the Copacabana end of Ipanema, with a consistent wave that makes it the city's surf school beach: boards for hire on the sand and lessons in the morning. The rock at its end is where the crowd gathers for sunset. Posto 7 is the lifeguard station, and the water is a little rou…