CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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140 km from Rio de Janeiro to Rio de Janeiro, about 2 h 46 of riding. On the way it passes Mouth of Guanabara Bay and Manmade Shoreli, Sítio Roberto Burle Marx and back through Mouth of Guanabara Bay and Manmade Shoreli. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 24 km this is Rio-Santos Highway, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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 Mouth of Guanabara Bay and Manmade Shoreli.
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 comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 70 km into the recorded legs you reach Sítio Roberto Burle Marx. Next is back through 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.
back through Mouth of Guanabara Bay and Manmade Shoreli, 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 → Mouth of Guanabara Bay and Manmade Shoreli is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mouth of Guanabara Bay and Manmade Shoreli → Sítio Roberto Burle Marx is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sítio Roberto Burle Marx → back through Mouth of Guanabara Bay and Manmade Shoreli is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mouth of Guanabara Bay and Manmade Shoreli → Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.