CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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291 km from Paraty to Paraty, about 5 h 38 of riding. It goes by way of Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi, Ilha Grande State Park and back through Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 44 km this is Rio-Santos Highway, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Between the old colonial port of Paraty and the border of São Paulo state, the mountains of the Serra do Mar come down to the sea in a jumble of forested peaks, rocky headlands and small, perfect bays, and the Cairuçu Environmental Protection Area covers much of this coast. It is part of the World Heritage site of Paraty and Ilha Grande, inscribed in 2019 for its combination of cultural and natural values. The forest here is the Mata Atlântica, the Atlantic rainforest, one of the richest and most threatened ecosystems on the planet, home to monkeys, toucans, hummingbirds and countless species of orchids and bromeliads. Within the area lie fishing villages of caiçaras, the traditional coastal people, and settlements of quilombolas, descendants of escaped slaves, as well as Guarani villages.
Read the complete Environmental Protection Area of Cairuçu write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Environmental Protection Area of Cairuçu is where the day begins. Next is Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi.
There are few places where a rainforest drops directly into the sea, and the coast between Rio and Santos is one of them. Paraty sits at the edge of a bay, with the mountains of the Serra da Bocaina rising steeply behind and the green islands of the bay scattered in front. The town was founded in the seventeenth century and prospered as the port where gold from the mines of Minas Gerais was shipped to Rio and on to Portugal, brought down the mountain on the Gold Road, the Caminho do Ouro, which you can still walk in places. UNESCO listed Paraty and Ilha Grande in 2019, as a landscape of culture and biodiversity.
Read the complete Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi comes up 56 km in. Next is Ilha Grande State Park.
Off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state, between Rio and Paraty, Ilha Grande rises from the sea, a mountainous island covered in Atlantic rainforest, with dozens of beaches, coves and waterfalls. For much of the twentieth century, it was home to a notorious prison and a leper colony, which kept development at bay, and today, most of the island is protected as a state park. It is part of the UNESCO site Paraty and Ilha Grande, Culture and Biodiversity, listed in 2019.
Read the complete Ilha Grande State Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
111 km in you reach Ilha Grande State Park. Next is back through Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi, late in the day. Next is Environmental Protection Area of Cairuçu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Environmental Protection Area of Cairuçu write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Environmental Protection Area of Cairuçu. That is the ride.
Environmental Protection Area of Cairuçu → Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi → Ilha Grande State Park is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ilha Grande State Park → back through Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi → Environmental Protection Area of Cairuçu is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.