Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro

In Rio de Janeiro, we stayed in a hotel overlooking one of the biggest beaches in the world - Copacabana Beach.

Its white sandy beach, crystal clear water and litter-free environment make this crescent-shaped beach the top magnet of holiday makers from around the world.

Its sheer size is best demonstrated by the 3-million colossal crowd (Read here) which gathered on 28 July 2013 to attend mass conducted by Pope Francis during the Catholic Church World Youth Day.

Sunset view taken from roof top of the hotel where we stayed.

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Night view taken at roof top of the hotel.

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3 million crowd at the beach in July 2013!

Photo downloaded from web.

At the beach, we randomly invited a group of bikini-clad ladies for a group photo. The most remarkable thing arising from this incident was after uploading the group photo to Instagram, a total stranger lady commented: "It's me! (in the photo)". Yet a short while later, another total stranger lady commented: "It's me too!".

I was wondering, What is the chance of such coincidence happening? One in a million?