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River Seine flowing through the city |
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Views across the river at dusk |
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Louvre Museum and the evening rush-hour traffic |
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The Louvre Pyramid - the entrance to the museum |
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The Louvre Pyramid - built 1989 |
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Entrance to a metro station |
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Jardine (Garden) de Touleries - almost deserted in the non-tourist season |
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Place de la Concorde, the place where more than 1300 people were beheaded during the times of the French revolution in 1793-1794. |
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"The Obelisk of Luxor" stands at the Place de la Concorde. |
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This 3300 year old monument is a gift from Egypt. Stands 23 metres tall and weighs a mere 230 metric tonnes. |
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Tried deciphering the hieroglyphics using "Asterix and Cleopatra" as a reference but it could not take me far. |
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Champs-Elysees, Paris' most famous avenue |
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Nearly 2 kms in length. Runs from the Egyptian Obelisk in the west to the Arc de Triomphe in the east. |
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Walking down the Champs-Elysees |
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Avenue des Champs-Elysees |
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Palais Royal, housing some offices of the government |
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Entrance to the "Champs-Elysees Clemenceau" station |
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The statue of General Charles De Gaulle, opposite the Palais Royal |
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Arc de Triomphe in all its splendour at the western end of the Champs-Elysees |
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You can barely make out people at the top |
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This majestic monument was commissioned by Napolean. Completed about 30 years later in 1836. |
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Arc de Triomphe. And also me. |
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The arc stands 51 metres tall |
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Views from the top of the Arc |
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Views towards La Defense, the business district |
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Looking down the Champs Elysees |
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The big brother standing across a few blocks |
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La Defense, the business district |
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The base of the Grande Arche |
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Le Grande Arche, completed in 1989 |
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Stands 110m tall. |
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At the base of the Grande Arche |
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Le Grande Arche - the stairs |
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The "Centre Georges Pompidou", with its drains and pipes outside the building |
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Inside the Centre Georges Pompidou - a museum for modern art |
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Escalators of the Pompidou Centre are located OUTSIDE the building |
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This is a good example of a load of crap that some people interpret as "art".
Can somebody please explain this "artwork" to me. |
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Displayed at Pompidou Centre |
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Centre Georges Pompidou at night |
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Avenue de Champs-Elysees with its christmas lights on |
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The unmistakable Tour Eiffel |
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The obligatory picture with the tower in the background |
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Arc de Triomphe seen from the 2nd level of the Eiffel Tower |
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Views to the south of the tower |
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View from the top level of the tower |
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Uniformed and plain-clothed security personnel frequent the base of the tower 24/7. |
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The tower as seen from the north bank of the River Seine |
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Pont de L'Alma underpass, where Princess Diana met her fate |
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Princess Diana memorial, on top of the Pont de L'Alma underpass |
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Ok.. you miss Diana: I think I get the idea. |
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All the nearby walls of the underpass are covered in tributes, even 10 years on. |
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Stained glass of the Notre Dame cathedral |
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Road approaching Pont de L'alma on the north bank of the Seine |
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The tower in all its glory. |
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The view from the bottom of the tower, looking up. |
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The Louvre Museum - the old building |
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The old building seen through the pyramid |
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One of the artworks in Louvre. Now, this is proper art. |
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Oh..what's the excitement? |
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Hordes of tourists (including us) cramming to get a better view of a famous artwork. Probably the most famous of them all. |
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"Let's get some more pics. We have enough memory in camera" |
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So what was the commotion about?
Here lies the key. |
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Jewellery on display. Some of the stuff in this pic are up to 5800 years old. The rest are dated to at least 3700 years before the present times. |
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The Pantheon, the final resting place of many illustrious citizens of France |
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The Pantheon was built in 1789. |
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The final resting place of Louis Braille |
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Funny that a blind guy would not be able to make out whose tomb it is, as there are no details in Braille. |
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The tomb of Marie Currie |
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THE END. |
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