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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From Rio de Janeiro it runs 228 km to Rio de Janeiro; allow about 4 h 07 of riding. The stops in between: Sítio Roberto Burle Marx, Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N, back through Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N and back through Sítio Roberto Burle Marx.
There is hardly any monument here, and that is part of what makes it powerful. The Valongo Wharf in Rio's port district is a sunken stone landing, unearthed in 2011 under the street when the area was being renovated, and it is believed to be the principal place where enslaved Africans arrived in the Americas. Historians estimate that hundreds of thousands of people came ashore at Valongo in the first half of the nineteenth century, after being shipped across the Atlantic in conditions that many did not survive. It was built in 1811 to move the trade away from the city centre, and was later covered by a new quay built for the arrival of a bride for the emperor. The stones lay hidden for the better part of two centuries.
Read the complete Valongo Wharf Archaeological Site write-up.
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Valongo Wharf Archaeological Site 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.
Read the complete Sítio Roberto Burle Marx write-up.
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Sítio Roberto Burle Marx comes up about 51 km into the recorded legs. Next is Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N.
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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about 84 km into the recorded legs you reach Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sítio Roberto Burle Marx write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Sítio Roberto Burle Marx, about halfway. Next is back through 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 through Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N sits at 167 km, about halfway. Next is back through Sítio Roberto Burle Marx.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sítio Roberto Burle Marx write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Sítio Roberto Burle Marx comes up about 179 km into the recorded legs. Next is Valongo Wharf Archaeological Site.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Valongo Wharf Archaeological Site write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Valongo Wharf Archaeological Site closes the day.
Valongo Wharf Archaeological Site → Sítio Roberto Burle Marx is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sítio Roberto Burle Marx → Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N → Sítio Roberto Burle Marx is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sítio Roberto Burle Marx → back through Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Pedra Bonita and Pedra da Gávea - Tijuca N → back through Sítio Roberto Burle Marx is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sítio Roberto Burle Marx → Valongo Wharf Archaeological Site is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.