Prainha & Grumari

Described as one of the bests beaches in RIO, Prainha ("little beach") and Grumari are perfect destination to spend a day away from the crowd and the city. About an hour drive from the centre and leaving the City behind when going South, Prainha is the ideal beach for surfers and nature lovers.

A couple of kiosks serving food and cold drinks, a Natural Park with nice trails in the middle of the Atlantic forest and toilet facilities, surfboards and colourful bikinis on the beach, almost empty on week days....something like paradise

The scenary is still there to remember how the coast used to be untill 30 -40 years ago in closer destination like Barra or Recreio, the nature is all over from the top of the mountain till the shore.


Grumari is not far from there, having a longer streach of sand and even less people around, with a flat green area separating the beach from the mountain behind it. At the end a small fisherman village with a river, where restaurants and bars offers drinks and fresh fish plates.




Only inconvenient is there are no public transport going there, so you might want to hire a car or ask a "carioca" for a lift. C38 guests we brought the other day,enjoyed very much and ask us to recommend it to everybody.