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Saturday, May 10, 2008
Rest of Paris (Part 1) Due to my imminent final year exams, I realised that I'm running out of time and guess what? This is the semester that I SHOULD, MUST do well, as it will decide whether a first class would be a far-fetched dream or not. Hence, I've decided to summarise the places of interest in Paris into 2 entries itself. I bet nobody would want to read about Paris everytime anyway. Furthermore, I have loads of backdated entries about London, Cork, Edinburgh, Newcastle, etc. that I believe I won't be able to finish anytime soon. I imagine how long would it take for me to write about my tours post summer. ~Shrugs. So, let's see what else Paris has in store for us. Arc De Triomphe The Arc De Triomphe is another Paris famous monument located at the end of the Champ Elysees.
I had the privilege of staying near the arc seeing it from many angles every single day and I must say the view of the arc especially during the night is majestic. I'd never thought it was that huge.
Apparently, the arc was built to honour the generals who fought for France and beneath the arc lies a tomb of an unknown soldier. Don't ask me why this unknown soldier has a nicer home with thousands of visitors daily compared to other unknown soldiers. Beats me.
Place de la Concorde The Place de la Concorde is a major square which leads to the Louvre from Champ Elysses.
Smacked right in the middle of the square, a huge obelisk with Egyptian hieroglyphics was erected.
In companion, beautiful fountains within the square wetting unsuspecting tourists who stands too near to them in the name of a photo.
Tuileries Garden If you enjoy sitting down the bench watching people walking by, baking under the sun, french kissing your other half in an open area, posing for photos, then the Tuileries Garden is the place to be. Of course I'm not guilty of anything above. Ok, except for photo posing.
The Tuileries Garden is a huge formal garden with statues, nicely trimmed hedges, a pond with radio controlled yatch, little cafes and loads of people chilling about. Oh yeah, a huge spider to boot too.
Musee de l'Armee Fans of Napolean, this is your museum. The Musee de l'Armee houses the tomb of Napolean and various army related artifacts that I couldn't be bothered with.
Especially since we need to pay to go in. The only thing that interests me was how beautiful the exterior of the museum is.
Golden dome, nice garden, long corridors and everything. Needless to say, I didn't go into the museum hence have no idea how worth it it is.
Seine River To quote somebody, every beautiful city has a river running through it. London has the Thames, Paris has the Seine River. Obviously that particular person hasn't been in Klang for a very long time. Walking along the Seine River, you could see plenty of Paris monuments and tourist attractions.
If you are too lazy to walk, there are river taxis available for a charge, of course, to bring you along the Seine River while you ponder upon why you paid for it when you have two perfect legs. Just kidding, I'm sure the river taxis provide a different perspective of Paris entirely.
To be cont... Posted at 09:59 pm by Astral86
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