The Best Travel Destination For New Year's Eve In South America Is Rio De Janeiro

By Grace Charvin


Christmas and New Year's Eve is almost upon us. Are you like me and starting to save for the upcoming holidays? In recent times New Year's Eve for me has been a time for relaxing and enjoying the night in my favourite restaurant back home with family and a few friends. Last New Year's Eve my friend Lucy and I went to Rio De Janeiro for New Year's Eve. If you are thinking of doing a South American New Year's Eve, but unsure about where you want to go, well stop thinking about it, because Rio De Janeiro is the only place to be in South America for New Year's Eve. Let me tell you, it is easily the best New Year's Eve I have experienced and I cannot wait to do it all again.

As we all know, Rio de Janeiro is renowned for the awesome celebrations all year round, including early in the year with the Rio Carnival. Nevertheless, New Year's Eve is absolutely massive in Rio and on Copacabana Beach people gather and celebrate together by drinking, samba dancing, watching the fireworks at midnight, and much more. The firework display in this place is really cool, as they use expensive and very colorful fireworks, and these really last a long time in the night sky and light up around the beach.

There are hotels to stay at the beach, and one of which is the Copacabana Palace Hotel. Although the hotel is very luxurious, it is still worth a stay. The place gives you an overlooking view around the area. It also has New Year's Eve parties, but the Hotel party entrance fee is around $1100 USD. If you are looking for an affordable hotel to stay at the beach, you may want to try the Mama Ruisa Hotel, an older, but also beautiful, and affordable place to stay.

If you want warm weather for your New Year's Eve then South America is the place to be. I don't know about you but I find it so annoying that during the holiday time of year back home in the USA, the weather in there is cold. We live in Minnesota, so most of the places close to me are just covered in snow. That's why I wanted so much to spend a New Year's Eve in warm tropical location. I certainly picked a beauty in Rio de Janeiro. The weather was so fantastic whilst we were there, and I loved that we could swim at the beach all day and night. Rio de Janeiro is possibly the best warm weather location to stay during New Year's Eve.

I know we wasted a lot of time hanging out at the beach, but our trip wasn't just all about swimming at the beach all the time as there was plenty of other things to do in Rio De Janeiro. We decided to do a mountain hike up Sugar Loaf Mountain and this was such an awesome trip. If you want to do some hiking then definitely head to Sugar Loaf Mountain. Also after we did some hiking we took a train ride up Corcovado mountain one day to see the Christ the Redeemer statue. This was so worth it, as you get a great view of the whole city up there.

If I were you I would book a trip to Rio De Janeiro for your next New Year's Eve vacation. I can guarantee you will not regret. You will definitely have a blast.




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