We started off with a tour of the opera house, when we arrived it was very quiet, but within about 10 minutes three large groups of tourists arrived, a surprise as we'd seen very few around town the day before.
It turned out a cruise ship had just arrived in port, as we learnt from an English couple. The tour was OK, the interior of the opera house was very nice, and though it was quite European in style, the ballroom was painted with jungle scenes (leopards, birds, etc.).
We then walked down to the dock area, spent some time sitting at a lunch place by the very dark looking river (Manaus is situated on the Rio Negro, just a few kilometres upstream from where it joins the Rio Solimoes to form the Amazon), then wandered around the the port area a bit more (though we weren't able to make it onto the cruise ship to have a look around).
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