If you're in Barra da Tijuca, you can head right along the coast to Ipanema
... Barra da Tijuca: Avenida das Americas in Barra da Tijuca is Rio's ... About an 
hours drive (or more) along the coast from Ipanema you come to Barra Shopping,
... [DOC] [TLE] Getting Around in Rio | Rio the Guide [PAR] So, if you are staying at a hotel in Copacabana and want to go to play golf at the 
... club in So Conrado you just follow the coast along passing through Ipanema 
and ... in Rio through Copacabana to Ipanema and Barra da Tijuca, the system 
has ...