Sunday 15 June 2008

Around Paris in 2 days

Cosmopolitan Paris, city of culture, art, fashion, food and design has left an impression of bohemianism and feel of
"LIBERTE, EGALITE, FRATERNITE!"

Seine:
Musee Louvre:

Pantheon, this former Christian basilica is now dedicated to the Nation (I guess French :)
There are tombs of great people like Jean Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, Victor Hugo ...
in the crypt of the Pantheon:

67 metre Foucault pendulum beneath the central dome:
(this crazy thing really measures time :)


I cannot believe it, I am standing beneath Tour Eiffel

It was quite tedious task to stand in a queue to buy a ticket, stand in a queue to board the lift to level 2, stand in a queue to board the lift to level 3. It took me couple of hours, thanks god I had someting to read, but it was worth it:




Arc de Triomphe:

La Sorbonne:


Notre-Dame de Paris: