CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 490 km round trip from Rio de Janeiro - roughly 9 h 18 in the saddle. The stops in between: 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.
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.
Read the complete Tijuca Forest write-up.
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Tijuca Forest 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 100 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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200 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 Tijuca Forest.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tijuca Forest write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Tijuca Forest. That is the ride.
Tijuca Forest → Ilha Grande State Park is 133 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 → Tijuca Forest is 133 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.