Tough Rides: Brazil - Season 1 (2016)

After being blessed by a local priest, Ryan Pyle sets off from the iconic Copa Cabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on his BMW F800GS adventure motorcycle; the perfect bike for this is incredibly diverse adventure motorcycle ride. Ryan is looking to cover as much as 14,000 kilometres over a 60-day circuit of Brazil. There is just one problem, Ryan has never been to Brazil before, and he doesn't speak Portuguese, and has little experience in South America and the chaos on the roads. Ryan's journey begins by exiting Rio and making his way up through the foothills to Minas ...

After exploring a church made entirely of Gold, Ryan practices some Brazilian martial arts and then enjoys an ice-cold beverage in a celebration of Salvador's 466th birthday as a city. Leaving the metropolis of Salvador behind, Ryan moves further north up the coast only to get stuck in a monster sand dune before heading west and moving deeper in to the Amazon Basin. With the entrance into the Amazon region, Ryan says goodbye to the pavement and comes to terms with the legendary Amazonian mud. As the rain falls the mud makes any real progress nearly impossible and ...

After his first proper crash of the trip, courtesy of the Amazonian mud, Ryan's spirits are down as he comes to the realization that traveling by road in the Amazon is going to be much harder than he originally anticipated. After a brief rest in the small village of Anapu, Ryan is refreshed and ready to continue to explore. Next Ryan connects with Gil, a local guide and resident of the Amazon. Ryan and Gil sample local chocolate and then climb a 45-meter NASA tower to explore the rain forest canopy and better understand how the rain forest affects global climate. ...