Rio de Janeiro Day 2

Maracana Stadium. The old historic stadium that held almost 200.00 in the World Cup finals between Uruguay and Brazil in 1950 ... which Uruguay won by 2:1.
It is actually under construction, but still it was a must to go. I went on the tubes with Keith, a scottish dude from the hostel.
It was quite hard to figure out the Metro system here. Normally I find Metros easy and quite straightforward, but this one. There are 2 lines we had to take and they run parallel for 10 staions or so. So we started on Line 1 and change to Line 2 but somehow went on Line 1 again and went back. The 2 lines are actually going on the same tracks. So, back to the station where we can combine. The next one in the right direction, but we were not sure if it was 1 or 2 ... so, we got off at the last possible station for both. Good, as it was still Line 1. So, we waited and were still trying to figure out how to see which one is 1 or 2 (or orange or green) ... somehow I found the hint but the Line 2 didn't go that often ... it was a bank holiday in Brasil (I somehow keep stumbling over bank holidays in SA ... Santiago, Buenos Aires, Rio, La Paz). We just waited for 2 more orange ones to pass until there was a green line train.
So, we got there finally.
Then we checked Maracana Stadium and went to the quite expensive museum and couldn't get a glimpse at the inside of the stadium. But we were on historic ground!
So, we went back and considered ourselves experts on the metro now and got on the next tube. Since there was only the green line going there was not much to do wrong. We thought. We got on the train, right direction, too. And after some stops we wondered why there was the Maracana Stadium apearing again. The tube didn't go to the end of the normal route and just went backwards. So, we got off and on again (15 mins wait included) and got off at the next station which we considered to be the joint lines station where we got on the green line before. But the stion looked totally different now. But there WERE stations for both lines. Eventually we found out were we was but couldn't figure out how we got there. It was, according to the map, not possible to go from the Maracana Station to this station on the green line. But we did. From there we were smart enough to take the orange one again. Had a little stop to see the colourful steps to Santa Theresa and got back on the tube. Right line AND right direction. We WERE experts now! But on that tube we were nervous, because we were not sure if it changes direction again at the next big stop. It didn't. Wow.
Funny was also, that on that train there were 2 different Metro maps. One of them showed the connection we did earlier that was not on the hand map. But it also show a difference at the end of the route we were heading. We just closed our eyes and got to our stop in Ipanema.
Experts! ... Well, no!
Metro Rio, ... mystic!

We then made it to Ipanema beach, looked at all the beautiful people and went to the border of Ipanema and Copacabana Beaches to watch the sunset. Unfortunately it was too cloudy but still beautiful. Quiet night at the hostel. Tomorrow Favela-Tour!