 Bravo! Bravo! And I'm Oli and this is our hero Bumblebee. Together we are attempting a Guinness World Record to become the youngest pair to circumnavigate the globe by Motorcycle. Join us for season 3 here in South America. Good morning guys. How's my hair? Good morning world. Welcome back to the channel. It's day 190 on our circumnavigation around the globe by Motorcycle. We tried to wake up for the sunrise this morning. We nearly made it! As you can see around us it's foggy in the mountains. Really foggy. The sun is up there somewhere. It has risen. But it's a really beautiful temperature here in the mountains. You can hear a lot of birds around us. It's a nature party going on here. It's like six in the morning. When we arrived yesterday we were the only ones. We were like, oh we will have a really really quiet and nice night. But then at like nine or ten o'clock three other people turned up and there had like a semi-party here going on. So that's it with our quiet night. But it was a cozy night in the tent. It was fresh. We had our coats on in our sleeping bags. Oh it was cozy. It was nice. And no mosquitoes. But let me show you guys where we're going to be riding today. So we are just about here just outside of Nova Friburgo and we are going to be continuing our way west along the mountains to finish the day in Petropolis. Yes a beautiful ride through the mountains today. We're going to be crossing over Rio, over Guanabara Bay and we should have some really nice viewpoints and nice mountain landscapes along the way. So it's about four hours ride today and we still have to pick up Bumblebee and pick up our tent and have breakfast. So better hit the road. Let's go. Welcome to Camping Ararat. Yes the best camping in the mountains. So the guys here at Camping Ararat just invited us in for a coffee and some bread with a view. Thank you, thank you. Wow beautiful. They don't speak any English so we're using Google Translate but they invited us in and they said you've got to come in and see the view here, have a coffee and have a little relaxation before you hit the road. So look at this. Bon dia, Laby and Oli. That's so cute. Look at this beautiful cake. Okay, we've got a giant passion fruit. Look at this. That looks amazing. So a beautiful breakfast but it's time to hit the road. We could have stayed here for like one week but we have to move onwards. We have to get to Petropolis. Straight into this big, oh my god, massive hill. Oh my god, oh my god. Quite scary right for the morning. Yeah that's a crazy start. Wow such a lovely family at Camping Ararat. Wow they were so so nice. Yeah I think this is my favorite campsite so far. We're going to try to avoid the crazy dirt road that we took to get up here. Hmm yeah it's definitely gotten a bit worse. I'm hoping that there's a second way which is cobbled like this. We just need to make sure we make the right turns to get down but look at the view this morning down into the valley. Look at this. It's so unbelievably beautiful. So nice here. Wow these guys they're living the dream really. He told us that he bought the plot 18 years ago. There was nothing on it and he lived in the tent with his wife for one and a half years whilst building his house and expanding and expanding and now they have like this huge property and it's just insanely beautiful. So we're going to make our way down to Nova Friburgo and across to Teresopolis and hope that the direction we're going now has cobbling all the way down. Oh my god. Oh my god that's steep. We made it down to the bottom. We made it into civilization without taking any dirt roads. I can't believe how difficult we made it for ourselves yesterday. Oh my god. But I'm glad that we could have a smooth start to this morning and now onwards we have just over 50 miles of beautiful mountain roads to reach Teresopolis. Coming through some big landscapes now. Pretty absolutely pretty. Yeah and a really nice road winding through them as well and here you can see on the sides actually that they've got quite a selection of English veg growing because we're at altitude so they're growing things like onions, spring onions, they're growing cabbages, lettuce. Everything you'd find in an English garden is what you find at about this altitude. I think we're at still possibly up to a thousand meters up so the air temperature is cooler and then the growers up here switching from the tropical fruits to the leafy greens and the garden veg. What's this one here? This is definitely some sort of onion. Yeah it looks like spring onion yes. Yeah down at sea level you get your fruit salad and up here you get your garden salad. You can smell it hey. Oh I could smell the onion. Yummy. Yeah you get this nice oniony smell coming off the hills. Oh my god that's nice. It reminds me of our little veggie plot back at my parents house in Northamptonshire. Hi mom and dad. Oh look football. The Brazilians love football. That's right always got space for a football field even in the mountains. Okay we're coming into our first big town of the day which is called Teresopolis. Teresopolis the name comes from the wife of the last emperor of Brazil Emperor Pedro II and his wife was called Teresa. That's really nice. He named like an entire city after her. That's really cool and it's really funny because after Teresopolis our next city is Petropolis and that's actually named after Pedro himself. So he's got his city and then his wife's city and both of those next to each other. That's nice but actually this city is really famous just for being the gateway to this massive national park. It's a really nice national park which is just starting in front of us. The national park is called Serra dos Orgaos which means the organ mountains but not like organ inside the body but organs like the church organs because I don't know if you can see just yet but there's a lot of these sort of like peaks that are like very up and jagged a bit like the organ in the church so the national park is named after that. But we're just going to be riding through the city because our lunch stop for the day is just on the other side and it's called Mirante do Soberbo. A nice little viewpoint where we can stop have a break and see the nice mountains behind us. Oh the German flag is the wrong way around. No way was it? Yes. So it looks like we are just coming up to our lunch spot for the day. Very cool. Look at these three hondas. Cool. Let's check out this viewpoint. Our lunch. Chips here. All right maybe we should get some. This is what we're here to see. Look at this. That's a big viewpoint behind us. Wow. I think that's Guanabara Bay in the background. Somewhere over there is Rio de Janeiro and there's actually a really really cool mountain but it's hidden in cloud at the moment up there and that mountain up there is called Deido de Dios which means God's finger and if you could see it it would look like this. But it's just clouds at the moment. Do you want a coconut as well? Okay. Yeah okay. Coconut. So nice. Let's go. Very nice vegetarian meal. Look at that. Beans and a patata shit. This is a first for us. Wow look at that. All right lunch break's over. It's time to continue our journey to Petropolis. Look at this car. Nice. Beautiful. Beautiful. There was a nice lunch break, a nice little stop with a cloudy view but still quite nice and especially the coconut gave us some new energy for the next one hour 45 minutes apparently. Coconut road energy. Yes. So we found another camping on iOverlander. This one is actually called Espas Overlander which means Overlander space. So it's a camping which is dedicated to giving a space for Overland vehicles, motorbikes, camper vans. So I think that's the perfect place for us to spend the night. So it's just outside of Petropolis. So we'll be riding into Petropolis first and then onwards through to our camping. Yes camping. Look at all the beetles. It's a it's a VW beetle party. Wow. Nice. Look at this. Wow. Oh look at the sugar cane. Oh yeah. Nice. Pure sugar. Oh my god that looks juicy and nice. It does eh? It does. Cool. The VW beetle club. Super cool. Cheers guys. We see you on the road. We are getting up into the mountains now away from Teresopolis and we're heading on this beautiful little road called the BR 495 and this road is amazing because it's nestled in between two national parks. On the left you've got the one I mentioned before Park Natural Sierra Dos Orgaos. On the other side on the right you've got the Montanas de Teresopolis Natural Park. So this road is like a thin strip in between a vast area of mountains and forest and that's just absolutely epic to ride through. So we've got about 13 miles until we get to the end of this road. So that's 13 miles of ride of heaven. There's a sign for Capybara. That's a new one for us. We've had camels in Morocco and now Capybara in Brazil. I would love to see one of those crossing the road. How cute. We're just coming into Petropolis in about a mile or so and yeah you don't really want to be at Capybara crossing. Oh but look look look. Oh yeah our overlander space camping is coming up in two miles. Yes. So we're really getting there. We've made our way through the mountains. Oh there's Capybara. Oh my god. Oh I can't believe it and one was really big. They are really big. They're like little pigs. One was really big and I think it was the mom and then two were really small. Wow. So it looks like we're just coming into the central area of Petropolis and Petropolis is known as the imperial city. The story goes that Pedro II who was the last emperor of Brazil actually went to visit a farm up in this area. He was so in love with the climate and the nature and the mountains that he basically said right we're going to build a city here and on top of that we're going to name the city after me. So then you have born Petropolis and Petropolis is characterized by a lot of grand imperial buildings like the one we just saw actually like this one just coming up in front. I mean you've got a lot of these old style big big big buildings and there's also the main museum of Brazil. I can't remember the name I think it's called the Museum of Brazil and that's set in an old imperial residence. Yeah it's the most visited museum here in Brazil and I think about 300,000 people visiting it every year. Yeah it looks like our place is coming up just in a second. Awesome so this looks like the place Espasso Overlander Petropolis so we are just going to see if they're open and have space for us. Yeah So we just got another guest to speak to the owner of this place because he's not actually here she said that he said that it's fine for us to stay so we've just got to ride the bike in and then work out the details with him. Good evening! Lavi is over there eating some popcorn that we prepared last night. We've got bumblebee set up, we've got the tent set up and the other guests just left so we're the only ones here. This is a very cool little campsite in the city just on the edge of the city. You can see all the loft he puts in this place here you can see all the details and look at that. It's nice eh? It's some little buddha figures. It's got a little kitchen area at the back and this little you got the toilets and showers just here so it's really compact but it's everything you need really we'll see if anybody else arrives here otherwise this is going to be like a grand garden for us yeah really cool I'm really happy to be here so it was a really nice route through the mountains today we didn't have too much in the city with the traffic it was a lot of open winding roads which is amazing we did about 100 miles which is about 160 kilometers so not too much but it took us still I think about six hours on the bike so I'm really happy that we stopped for the day that we can just relax and chill out and see where we're going tomorrow so that's it from us today we hope you enjoyed the episode if so please give us a thumbs up subscribe to the channel share the video with your friends and family comments below we will see you next time