Perhaps best known worldwide from the 1960s jazz song "The Girl From Ipanema," which describes a "tall and tan and young and lovely" who who walks "like a samba," the Ipanema neighborhood of Brazil’s ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: At the end of the day, go to Arpoador at the far end of Ipanema near Copacabana to watch the sunset next to the Dois Irmãos (Two Brothers Mountains). Locals clap as the last ...

“I do not want to leave this place,” I scribbled in my journal the night we flew home. I meant it. Rio de Janeiro has that effect on you. It’s not just the raw natural beauty–though the cinematic ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Intricate sand sculptures. Volleyball played with feet. Ice cold coconuts with a straw sticking out. Copacabana, Ipanema and Leme beaches in Rio are as far from Rocky Point in ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Short, and dark, and young, and tired, the seal on Ipanema was basking ... The fur seal on Rio de Janeiro’s iconic beach was turning heads of locals and tourists alike Wednesday ...

If you lift your eyes above Ipanema Beach at a particular moment, you might see what Baldemar Fierro saw. The photographer from Laguna Beach captured the twinkling lights and colorful buildings in one ...