CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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301 km from Campina Grande do Sul to Campina Grande do Sul, about 7 h 17 of riding. On the way it passes Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese, Pico do Marumbi State Park, Guaraguacu Ecological Station and Ilha do Mel Ecological Station. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 32 km this is Estrada da Graciosa, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Serra da Graciosa is the steep green escarpment that separates the high plateau around Curitiba from the coastal plain of Paraná, and the old Graciosa road that runs down it is among the most scenic in southern Brazil. The road was opened in the nineteenth century, linking the interior with the port of Antonina on the Atlantic coast, and for a long time it was the main way for mule trains carrying mate and goods down to the sea. It is about thirty kilometres long, and parts of it are still paved with old stone, which gives it a rattling, slippery character in the wet.
Read the complete Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation write-up.
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Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation is where the day begins. Next is Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese.
In 1873, the province of Paraná in southern Brazil opened a road down the Serra do Mar from Curitiba to the coast, and it is still there, paved with stone setts, winding through the Atlantic forest in more than a dozen kilometres of bends. The Serra do Mar here is part of the Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves, listed by UNESCO in 1999, one of the largest remaining stretches of a forest that once covered much of the Brazilian coast.
Read the complete Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese write-up.
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Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese comes up 35 km in. Next is Pico do Marumbi State Park.
There are two ways down from Curitiba to the sea, and both are worth knowing. The modern highway, the BR-277, hurtles down the Serra do Mar in a series of viaducts and tunnels, and the old road, the Estrada da Graciosa, built in the nineteenth century, winds through the same forest on cobblestones, with bends so tight and views so green that bikers talk about it for years. The Serra do Mar is a steep coastal range, covered in Atlantic Forest, with clouds that cling to the peaks, and Pico do Marumbi, at about fifteen hundred metres, is the rocky summit that dominates the skyline.
Read the complete Pico do Marumbi State Park write-up.
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71 km in you reach Pico do Marumbi State Park. Next is Guaraguacu Ecological Station.
On the coast of Paraná, between the port city of Paranaguá and the beaches of Pontal do Paraná, the Guaraguaçu Ecological Station protects a stretch of lowland forest, mangrove and sandy restinga along the Guaraguaçu river. It belongs to the network of Atlantic Forest reserves that UNESCO lists for the south and southeast of Brazil, here around the Paranaguá bay, one of the best preserved estuaries on the Brazilian coast. Access to the station itself is restricted, as ecological stations are mainly for research, but the surrounding landscape gives a strong sense of what it protects.
Read the complete Guaraguacu Ecological Station write-up.
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Guaraguacu Ecological Station, about halfway. Next is Ilha do Mel Ecological Station.
No cars are allowed on Ilha do Mel, the honey island, at the mouth of the bay of Paranaguá in southern Brazil, and that is a large part of its charm. The island is a mix of sandy beaches, rocky headlands, mangroves and Atlantic forest, and most of it is protected as an ecological station and a state park. Its forests, beaches and mangroves are part of the Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves listed by UNESCO, a string of protected areas along the coast of Paraná and São Paulo that preserve some of the best remaining stretches of the Mata Atlântica. The number of visitors is limited, which keeps the island quiet even in summer.
Read the complete Ilha do Mel Ecological Station write-up.
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Ilha do Mel Ecological Station sits at 142 km, about halfway. Next is back through Guaraguacu Ecological Station.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Guaraguacu Ecological Station write-up.
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back through Guaraguacu Ecological Station comes up 177 km in. Next is back through Pico do Marumbi State Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pico do Marumbi State Park write-up.
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212 km in you reach back through Pico do Marumbi State Park. Next is back through Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese, late in the day. Next is Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 301 km.
Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation → Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese → Pico do Marumbi State Park is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pico do Marumbi State Park → Guaraguacu Ecological Station is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Guaraguaçu Ecological Station → Ilha do Mel Ecological Station is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ilha do Mel Ecological Station → back through Guaraguacu Ecological Station is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Guaraguacu Ecological Station → back through Pico do Marumbi State Park is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pico do Marumbi State Park → back through Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese → Serra da Graciosa Turistical Preservation is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.