Manaus Opera House

Mission's trip to the interior parts of the Amazon. We travelled to remote villages and slept on a boat at night. We tried some exclusively Brazilian food and played a whole lot of soccer. The second half of the mission trip we spent in the city of Manaus, helping out at a church and walking around the impoverished community talking to locals. Our …

Oi! Eu sou o Fernando, mas pode me chamar de W'nderer Writer. Já faz dois anos que estou tentando decifrar um enigma e resolvi pedir ajuda. Essa história começou em outubro de 2009, no mesmo momento em que duas outras terminaram: uma sociedade e um noivado. Meu mundo caiu. Parti para um retiro pela Amazônia.

Foi lá que uma inspiração …

... the number of shops there are and the mixture of colonial and new architecture. Our hotel (10th July) is right next to the Opera house which is a magnificent building, unlike our hotel which is a bit of a sprawling mess. After emptying the truck of all ...

... it all in and generally sweating. It is hot and I mean damn hot !! Next day we went for a tour around the Opera house which is quite magnificent and was finished in 1896 with practically every material imported from Europe. In the evening we lazed ...

... offering a free concert, so there we sat:  in the middle of the rain forest, in a city of 2 million, in a fancy opera house, listening to an orchestra accompany a talented but very odd and high pitched male opera singer in a mesh see-through ...

... dead. We walked up to the where the Government Justice building was….and then across to the Placa where the National Opera house sits.  The surrounding placa held a church and many colorful and quaint old buildings.  We later learned that ...

... has some pretty impressive building, like Iquitos, from the rubber boom period. They even have an opera house which we found a little odd for a jungle city. Manaus is even hotter than Tabatinga and you really need air conditioning. We went to see the ...

After a 4 hour flight at a most ungodly hour from Sao Paulo we finally arrived in Manaus. Brazil sure is a huge country crossing 2 time zones because in Manaus we had to change our time by an hour. I was expecting a tiny town but was surprised at the ...

... as I´d found in the Paraguayan city near Foz d´Iguaçu) In the early afternoon, I went to the Opera House, built during the rubber boom in Brazil, when Manaus was a really rich city. In fact, Manaus is known as the Paris of the Amazon and does seem ...

... iron market house from Gustave Eiffel's Paris exhibition of 1889, and even building their own enormous, elegant opera house. Manaus today is a slightly shabby looking, frenetic junglopolis surviving off trade and tourism. However there are still some ...

... our 4 day Amazon boat trip adventure. Manaus is a very interesting place with lots of old buildings, beautiful opera house and another side of Brazil we hadn't seen. We were here for one night before setting sail. Feeling a bit apprehensive about ...

... to go out. In the afternoon when it cools down a touch me, Matty and the South African couple wander around Manaus to check out the opera house.  I think the opera house here is pretty famous and a relic of when Manaus was a rich city during the ...