CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Rio de Janeiro it runs 569 km to Rio de Janeiro; allow about 10 h 47 of riding. It goes by way of Sítio Roberto Burle Marx, Ilha Grande State Park, Environmental Protection Area of Cairuçu and back through Ilha Grande State Park. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 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 62 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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125 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.
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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 249 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.
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back through Sítio Roberto Burle Marx comes up 312 km in. Next is Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N write-up.
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Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N closes the day.
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.
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 → Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.