Praia dos Amores
Rio de Janeiro
Rodrigo_Soldon / BY-NC-SA 2.0 via flickr
A short beach at the very start of Barra, tucked between the Joá rocks and the Quebra-Mar breakwater that marks the entrance to the Barra canal. Surfers use the break off the breakwater, and the rocks give some shelter from the wind. It fills on weekends with people who live nearby; on a weekday morning it is close to…