CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Rio de Janeiro it runs 113 km to Rio de Janeiro; allow about 2 h 18 of riding. The stops in between: Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N, Sítio Roberto Burle Marx, back through Sítio Roberto Burle Marx and back through Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 21 km this is Rio-Santos Highway, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Rio is the kind of city that looks like it was drawn by someone with a taste for exaggeration. Granite domes rise straight out of the sea and the streets, Sugarloaf at the entrance to Guanabara Bay, Corcovado with Christ the Redeemer on top, and between them are beaches, lagoons, favelas climbing the hillsides and a forest in the middle of town. The Tijuca Forest, replanted by hand in the nineteenth century after coffee farming had stripped the slopes, is one of the largest urban forests in the world. UNESCO recognised Rio's setting as a cultural landscape in 2012.
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Rio de Janeiro is where the day begins. Next is Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N.
Two granite monoliths stand over the western edge of Rio de Janeiro, and they draw very different crowds. Pedra da Gávea, at about eight hundred and forty metres, is a massive block with a flat face that looks, from some angles, like a human profile, and it has attracted legends, including one about Phoenician inscriptions carved by sailors thousands of years ago. Experts think the marks are natural erosion. Pedra Bonita, a smaller sister, is where hang-gliders and paragliders launch from a wooden ramp, floating down over the forest to land on the beach at São Conrado, in one of the most photographed flights in the world.
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Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N comes up 19 km in. Next is Sítio Roberto Burle Marx.
Roberto Burle Marx changed the way the world thought about gardens. The Brazilian landscape architect, painter and plant collector, who died in 1994, designed the wave-patterned promenade along Copacabana beach, the gardens of the Ministry of Education in Rio, and hundreds of other parks and gardens, using native tropical plants in bold, abstract compositions. In 1949 he bought a former coffee estate in Barra de Guaratiba, in the far west of Rio de Janeiro, and turned it into his home, studio and laboratory, filling it with thousands of plant species collected on expeditions across Brazil. Sítio Roberto Burle Marx was added to the World Heritage list in 2021.
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At least 42 km in you reach Sítio Roberto Burle Marx.
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Sítio Roberto Burle Marx, about halfway. Next is back through Sítio Roberto Burle Marx.
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back through Sítio Roberto Burle Marx sits at 76 km, about halfway. Next is back through Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N.
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back through Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N comes up 95 km in. Next is Rio de Janeiro.
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Read the complete Rio de Janeiro write-up.
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Rio de Janeiro closes the day.
Rio de Janeiro → Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N → Sítio Roberto Burle Marx is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sítio Roberto Burle Marx → back through Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N → Rio de Janeiro is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.