CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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586 km from Rio de Janeiro to Rio de Janeiro, about 11 h 15 of riding. On the way it passes Sítio Roberto Burle Marx, Ilha Grande State Park, Environmental Protection Area of Cairuçu and back through Ilha Grande State Park. Much of it runs through woodland.
Tijuca Forest sits in the middle of Rio de Janeiro, a mass of green hills that rises right out of the dense city and holds the Christ the Redeemer statue on its peak. It is one of the largest urban forests in the world, and the astonishing thing is that it is not original. In the nineteenth century, coffee plantations and logging stripped these slopes, and the springs that supplied the city began to dry up. In 1861, Emperor Pedro II ordered the land to be replanted, and a major named Manuel Gomes Archer led a team of enslaved labourers who planted tens of thousands of saplings, an early and successful experiment in forest restoration.
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Tijuca Forest 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 63 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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back through Ilha Grande State Park sits at 251 km, about halfway. Next is back through Sítio Roberto Burle Marx.
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back through Sítio Roberto Burle Marx comes up 313 km in. Next is Tijuca Forest.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tijuca Forest write-up.
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Tijuca Forest closes the day.
Tijuca Forest → Sítio Roberto Burle Marx is 37 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 → Tijuca Forest is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.