Saturday, January 05, 2008

Paris - Part 2


Eiffel Tower



Looking at Eiffel Tower from Peace Monument at Champ de Mars


Salute at the Peace monument


In front of Ecole Militaire, the Military School Napolean Bonaparte graduated from.


The Tour de Eiffel is within reach



Spectacular!


Posing with Eiffel, i am taller, haha


Another


And another



And another... never get enough of it


and yet another one


Eiffel Jump





Palais Garnier, or Paris Opera


A nice building decorated with figurines of great musicians and artists of the past


The Monmarte area of Paris


Delicious looking food


Cakes


Monmarte is a place where artists use to gather


Artworks


Lunch: baguette


and a mutilated pain du chocolat, opps...!





At the highest point of Monmarte, stands the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, or Basilica of the Sacred Heart.




A beautiful white structure with multiple domes




People hanging around the stairway of Basilique du Sacré-Cœur



From Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, overlooking Paris




Great view of Paris




One of the ivory white towers




Monmarte



The legendary Notre Dame, immortalised by French writer Victor Hugo in Hunchback of Notre Dame.



A magnificient structure of Gothic architecture




Miniature of Notre Dame




Notre Dame from the side



Sq Jean XXIII behind Notre Dame



One of the best view of Notre Dame is from Sq Jean XXIII behind Notre Dame



Distinct flying buttress, which supported the extensively windowed wall



Gargoyles


Louvre Musuem bookstore, Mona Lisa and more Mona Lisa


Musee du Lourve is where Mona Lisa calls home, and also many other famous artworks and ancient relics, like the Hammurabi Code

Egyptian Sphinx


Agasias of Ephesus, son of Dositheus

Mona Lisa

Two slaves by Michaelangelo


Another Da Vinci painting which was featured in the Da Vinci Code


Venus de Milo



Psyche and Cupid


Spiral staircase below the Glass Pyramid
Outside Louvre, the Glass Pyramid at night

Designed by American Chinese I. M. Pei

Good night, Paris.....