One thing I escaped from doing on my first visit to Rio in last January was visiting the Maracana stadium. Not that I have something against the ex biggest stadium of the world.. only.. What can you do in the stadium other then watching a game????? Well, I had to find it out last week :) Wasn't so bad! Now it is the biggest stadium in the Americas. Used to be the biggest in the world but China took over :) But it's ok! It still has the adjective - BIGGEST. Biggest in Brazil, biggest in Americas. Because everything that is in Brazil HAS to be THE biggest, THE longest, THE widest, etc. You just keep adding the adjectives or other words that specifies the location :) The jungle forest we visited was THE BIGGEST forest in the center of the city in the world. The tunel we went through was THE LONGEST in the Americas if you put the 3 seperate tunnels together..mmm :) But the Maracana was nice! We stood in the footsteps of all the famous soccer players, saw the big reconstruction works getting ready for the World Cup in 2014 and visited a museum with EXTRAVAGANT english translations :)
Somebody famous.. please dont' ask me who :)
Here it is - the footsteps of Pele!!
The stadium. Being torn down for reconstruction. On our leaving, Thiago said: "I miss my stadium."
Inside a gigantic soccer ball. The museum was very interesting... :)
Here's some example of the amazing English translations :)
As Thiago says "Brazil is the big Mother, everybody is welcome!" In the museum there was a souvenir shop where we bought little Latvi (Austria) - Brazil friendship flags :) Very cute!
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