CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 598 km round trip from Rio de Janeiro - roughly 11 h 15 in the saddle. The stops in between: Sítio Roberto Burle Marx, Ilha Grande State Park, Environmental Protection Area of Cairuçu and back through Ilha Grande State Park. The coast is the point of it.
The entrance to Guanabara Bay is a narrow gap between two rock masses, with Sugarloaf Mountain on one side and the fort of Sao Joao on the other, and it is one of the great harbour views of the world. This stretch of shoreline, around Urca, Botafogo and Flamengo, is part of the area that UNESCO recognised in 2012 as a cultural landscape where the city and the natural setting have shaped each other. The words manmade shoreline refer to the reclaimed land along the bay, which includes the Flamengo Park.
Read the complete Mouth of Guanabara Bay and Manmade Shoreli write-up.
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Mouth of Guanabara Bay and Manmade Shoreli is where the day begins. 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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Sítio Roberto Burle Marx comes up 69 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.
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138 km in you reach Ilha Grande State Park. Next is Environmental Protection Area of Cairuçu.
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.
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Environmental Protection Area of Cairuçu, about halfway. Next is back through Ilha Grande State Park.
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Read the complete Ilha Grande State Park write-up.
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back through Ilha Grande State Park sits at 275 km, about halfway. Next is back through Sítio Roberto Burle Marx.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sítio Roberto Burle Marx write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Sítio Roberto Burle Marx comes up 344 km in. Next is Mouth of Guanabara Bay and Manmade Shoreli.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mouth of Guanabara Bay and Manmade Shoreli write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Mouth of Guanabara Bay and Manmade Shoreli closes the day.
Mouth of Guanabara Bay and Manmade Shoreli → Sítio Roberto Burle Marx is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sítio Roberto Burle Marx → Ilha Grande State Park is 96 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ilha Grande State Park → Environmental Protection Area of Cairuçu is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Environmental Protection Area of Cairuçu → back through Ilha Grande State Park is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ilha Grande State Park → back through Sítio Roberto Burle Marx is 96 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Sítio Roberto Burle Marx → Mouth of Guanabara Bay and Manmade Shoreli is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.