Saturday 21st April

Saturday 21st April no 15
Leaving Petropolis at 8-15 am , being a public holiday the traffic was not that bad from the hotel.
Stopping at a Palace to take some photos which was very picturesque as it was on a lake and very well maintained,riding further up the mountains to see the beautiful landscape the fog came in so we just took photos of each other.
Renato wanted to miss the traffic so he took us on a goat track, which was a road. It was terrible, the biggest pot holes with dogs and kids running about the place, trucks just missing us as we bounced along. In and out of bloody great pits.It went for about 10klms  Nina's hands were cramped up from hanging on it was like trying to  motorcross with luggage.
Leaving this dreadful  road we climbed higher and higher with many corners and sweepers it was in the national park which is about 2,000 hectares.we were supposed  to see the magnificent views ,but again it was cloudy.
We returned to the valley and rode the highway which was chockablock with traffic, and we rode down the breakdown lane then tried to maneuver through the traffic Bruno and Nina were getting blocked in as buses and trucks would not let them out to follow us.
Leaving the traffic behind we again head for the mountains ,riding many sweepers and even tunnels which are cut out of the rock no lights and cobblestone road, some even had bends in them, at the entrance some even had the jungle vines hanging , very interesting.
Coming down the mountain it starts to drizzle making the roads very slippery
Renato brings us to our destination it is a beautiful hotel over looking the bay,he tells us that there s 365 islands just in front of us, and many people hire boats and spend a day sailing.
We meet Nina a Bruno for a quite drink by the pool and Erica a Renato join us as we are heading for dinner
Nina Vic and I counted the speed bumps today and got 96
Tomorrows ride is to Campos do Jordao another 300 kl up the mountains again
Photos tomorrow as  I am to hungry to down load