CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Rio de Janeiro it runs 472 km to Rio de Janeiro; allow about 8 h 55 of riding. On the way it passes Ilha Grande State Park, Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi and back through Ilha Grande State Park. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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.
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 is where the day begins. 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.
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Ilha Grande State Park comes up 99 km in. 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.
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199 km in you reach Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi. Next is back through Ilha Grande State Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ilha Grande State Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Ilha Grande State Park, late in the day. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N. That is the ride.
Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N → Ilha Grande State Park is 132 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ilha Grande State Park → Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Paraty and Ilha Grande - Culture and Biodi → back through Ilha Grande State Park is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Ilha Grande State Park → Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N is 132 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.