A visit in Paris! (Part 2)

Dear friends, are you waitng impatiently for the release of the second part of my visit in Paris?After a few days of repose, I resume my work. Before telling you about the visit, I have to make myself clear that I was staying in the ambassador's house for that night, sleeping on the sofa particularly with many other students who were sleeping on the floor, so I claim that I have a better night than the others but it wasn't really as comfortable as you think.

Let's move on, that day was breezy, and it was drizzling. But we had to take this opportunity to discover this amazing land regardless how bad the weather was. So out we went, our first destination was the well-known, Eiffel's Tower. It was a tower situated in Le Champ de Mars. It wasn't that crowded that day because as I mentioned, the weather wasn't that nice. In addition, the wind was so strong and it could even blow a person away. Here comes the pictures:

Under the Eiffel Tower.

This was taken from a further view.

Look at the intensity of the light behind the Eiffel Tower.

My friend and I spent about 1 hour plus right at this square, I really became a labourer by taking pictures for the others. During our visit, there was so many vendor selling souvenirs, epecially those keychains, there were convincing the tourists to buy and the tips is if you come to encounter these people, try bargaining with them, you can even have 10 keychains for just 1 euro. For example, pretend not to be really interested in buying them. Well, this is the best solution that I have ever tried.

A picture of the building opposite the Eiffel Tower.

Another picture of the building opposite the Eiffel Tower where people usually go to take a picure of the whole Eiffel Tower.

A group picture of my friends and I on one of the bridges that connect the two banks (left and right).

Ok, I promised to tell you who's the one that I fetched from the train station, who lost her phone, and who helped taking a lot of pictures of mine. She was the second person standing from the left. The chinese girl, her name is Xin Ni.

The next destination, Paris Opera House. When we were on our way to the metro, we saw many musicians playing violin beautifully, they are those who prefer musics more than money. It was really interesting, looking at them, you will be thinking why are they here since they can play so well, they should be in the orchestra. I didn't ask them, well, it's not that good to disturb them when they are so into the music that they are making. In Paris, they are called 'Musiciens RATP'.

When we reached the Opera House, immediately we took some pictures of it, and one of my friends who is a lover of The Phantom of the Opera kept remembering me the story during our visit here, Christine Daé, Raoul and Eric. Ok, he really added some colours in my visit.

The Paris Opera House - Regardez, C'est magnifique, non? L'architecture.

The plan of the Paris Opera House.

Let's go inside and explore the charm...

The ceiling of the entrance, not really that interesting but it surely gives you a better view of this House.

When we officially passed throught the security, we took a picture with the help of a japanese visitor.

One of the great contributors of this opera house-Haendei

Another one

Lulli

Gluck

The well known "Grand Staircase" (30 m high)

It is one of the most famous features of the Palais Garnier. Built in marble of various coulours, the double stairway leads to the foyers and the different levels of the auditorium. The Grand Staircase is itself a theatre where, in years gone by, the crinolines of fashionable society ladies would brush. The four sections of the painted ceiling depict different allegories of music.

The Grand Foyer (18 m high, 32 m deep, 31 m wide max)

The vast and richly decorated foyers provide the audience with areas to stroll through during intervals. The vault of the avant foyer is covered with delightful mosaics in sparkling colours on a gold background. There is a splendid view of the grand staircase.

Oh là là!

From one of the windows.

At one of the balcony

At one the Balcony. Alone.

Take a deep breath, you are about to see the secret of the Paris Opera House...

The chandelier! which weighs 8 tonnes.

Close-up!

Of course, the stage! There were having some kind of practice that day.

Sad, yet we have to move on,around 1 pm, we decided to go to Le Musée du Louvre. If you have read the Da Vinci Code, I'm sure you know what am I talking about, it's where the curator was shot and he posed like the Vitruvian Man before he died. Yes, or maybe you have watched the movie, it's the part where Robert Langdon was escaping from the polices with Sophie in the car, they passed by the pyramid. Nevermind, I show you the pictures but I have to tell you that there is hardly a chance to take a good picture because there were so many people, for your information, the entrance is free on Sunday. Obviously, me, such a penny-wise student wouldn't waste much of my money, so I went there on Sunday.

So, this is the pyramid that I have been talking about.

One of the statues which I think is nice enough. Frankly, I don't know what is it called.

The Ceiling

Here comes the reason why people go to this museum so often, La Joconde, Monalisa. Sorry, I couldn't take a good picture of it because the painting was guarded so strictly with the vitrine and some security guards there. Hope you don' mind. And now, at least I can tell people that I have seen the genuine painting of Monalisa (oops, someone is showing off.)

La Joconde (Monalisa)

In case that you all can't imagine the situation of Salle 6 where La Joconde is kept, look at this video.

So that was it, my visit in Paris. After having had my lunch, I went back to pack my bags and left Mr. Yusri's house at 6.30pm because I had a train to catch at 7.20pm. I looked around again, this lovely city of Paris. I propose to you that this is a place that you must visit, no matter how much you are going to spend, because all the memories that you will be bringing home are all good ones.
I boarded on the train, seached for my seat, talked to the mister who sat beside me during the journey. And he is a doctor. At 10:55pm, I reached Colmar. Home sweet home...