on ipanema beach, usually between posto 8 and posto 9, depending on the year and the city's administration, free concerts are set up for new years' eve - concerts start in the afternoon and go through the night, although most people choose to go to copacabana to see the fireworks at midnight.

ipanema beach and copacabana beach are very close, so the walk takes only a few minutes - we photographed the last sunset of the year in ipanema, and the migration of revelers back to ipanema after the fireworks in copacabana.