CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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It goes by way of Ilha Grande State Park, Sítio Roberto Burle Marx and back through Ilha Grande State Park. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The Serra da Bocaina is the green wall that rises behind the coast between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, the high end of the Serra do Mar, and the national park that covers it protects one of the largest surviving patches of Atlantic forest. Rain from the ocean falls on the slopes almost daily, and the result is a dense, dripping jungle of tree ferns, bromeliads, orchids and enormous trees, with waterfalls and rivers running down to the sea. Clouds sit on the ridge, and the air smells of wet leaves and earth.
Read the complete Serra da Bocaina National Park write-up.
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Serra da Bocaina National Park 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 81 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.
Read the complete Sítio Roberto Burle Marx write-up.
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163 km in you reach Sítio Roberto Burle Marx. 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 Serra da Bocaina National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Serra da Bocaina National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Serra da Bocaina National Park. That is the ride.
Serra da Bocaina National Park → Ilha Grande State Park is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ilha Grande State Park → Sítio Roberto Burle Marx is 96 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Sítio Roberto Burle Marx → back through Ilha Grande State Park is 96 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Ilha Grande State Park → Serra da Bocaina National Park is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.