at a glance

rua francisco octaviano houses a high number of hotels and guesthouses, such as the arpoador inn, copacabana beach hotel and mercure rio, and is generally bustling with shoppers browsing the surfing and skateboarding shops at galeria river, as well as various clothes shops offering funky designs, such as complexo b and draco.

at ciclovia zona sul visitors can rent bikes and take advantage of rio's 250km of fabulous bicycle paths, which run all over the city including along the beaches and the nearby lagoa.