CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Paraty it runs 523 km to Paraty; allow about 9 h 59 of riding. It goes by way of Praia do Sul Biological Reserve, Sítio Roberto Burle Marx, Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N and back through Sítio Roberto Burle Marx. The line favours views over speed.
Paraty is a small, white and ochre colonial town on the green coast of Rio de Janeiro state, between the sea and the steep forested wall of the Serra da Bocaina, and it looks almost as it did in the eighteenth century. It grew rich as the port at the end of the gold route: from the 1690s, gold from the mines of Minas Gerais was carried down the mountains by mule on the Caminho do Ouro and shipped from here to Rio and Portugal. When the gold trade moved elsewhere, the town slumbered, and that long sleep is the reason that its streets, churches and houses survived so intact. UNESCO listed Paraty and Ilha Grande in 2019, for the cultural landscape and its biodiversity.
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Paraty Historic Center is where the day begins. Next is Praia do Sul Biological Reserve.
The southern shore of Ilha Grande, off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state, is one of the few pieces of Brazil's Atlantic coast that is protected as a strict biological reserve, meaning ordinary visits are not allowed. The Praia do Sul reserve was created to guard a long, curved beach backed by a lagoon, a mangrove and a fringe of forest, and it is one of the places where sea turtles come ashore to lay eggs. The island as a whole has no cars, only footpaths, boats and a tradition of fishing villages, and most of its interior is covered in Atlantic forest, which survived because the island had a prison for much of the twentieth century and was kept off limits.
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Praia do Sul Biological Reserve comes up 67 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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133 km in you reach Sítio Roberto Burle Marx. 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, 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.
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back through Sítio Roberto Burle Marx sits at 267 km, about halfway. Next is back through Praia do Sul Biological Reserve.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Praia do Sul Biological Reserve write-up.
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back through Praia do Sul Biological Reserve comes up 333 km in. Next is Paraty Historic Center.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Paraty Historic Center write-up.
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Paraty Historic Center closes the day.
Paraty Historic Center → Praia do Sul Biological Reserve is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Praia do Sul Biological Reserve → Sítio Roberto Burle Marx is 105 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Sítio Roberto Burle Marx → Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N → back through 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 Praia do Sul Biological Reserve is 105 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Praia do Sul Biological Reserve → Paraty Historic Center is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.