Paris Day 4 - General Sightseeing

Today's my last day in Paris! Here's a shot of my comfy bed for the last few days.

Weizhe's spare room and my bed for 4 days.

We started the day walking around for souveneirs, since it was our last day in Paris.


Numerous shops and road-side stalls line this street near the Notre-Dame church.

Cute little french boy and girl cartoon.






Pantheon- great people are buried here

We continuing walknig on and reach some gardens.


Spring is here! Many people lounging in the sun.


Think you can rent the chairs from some place.


Pantheon in the distance.


Duckie among the flowers.

Garden


Another church we passed by.

Later on, I decided to visit the Sacred Heart and Artist Square once again. This time in the day. Unfortunately, we no longer had the day pass and could not use the funiculaire for free. Therefore, we had to walk up the stairs to reach Sacred Heart!






It was well-worth it. The artist square was a lot more crowded than what I expected. It was nothing like the previous 2 times I went at night. The whole square was crowded with stalls.


The crowded artist square.

The crowded and active Artist Square.

Landscape artists are gathered in one section. Many of their pictures focus on places of interest in Paris, such as the Eiffel Tower, Notre-dame church, Arc de Triomphe and the Artist Square itself etc.

Paintings







The portrait artists occupy another part of the square.


An Artist and his self portrait.

Caricatures









Some customers. Generally they are all pretty good.


Cafes near the Artist Square. This particular cafe is always drawn into landscape paintings of the Artist Square itself since its right next to it.



A sketch of the Aritist Square and Sacred Heart such as the photo above.




View from outside the Sacred Heart.



Sacred Heart in the day!



Inside of the beautiful Sacred Heart.

It was a blessing in disguise that we didn't have the day passs today and had to walk up and down the hill. As we walked down this sloping pathway, instead of the stairs, we got to see lots of nice sights that we would have otherwise missed!



The path down from the Sacred Heart.





Beautiful sight of the Merry-go-round and the Sacred Heart. Lots of landscape artist like to draw in the Sacred Heart, along with this Merry-go-round and the sloping pathway we just came from.

We pass by a pastry shop and I am hungry because it is 6.30pm. I have a quesh for dinner. Zhiqiang has nothing. I think he's pretty much superman on tours. Hmm..



Mmmhmm!

After Artist Square, we move on for some other sight-seeing in general.

Our next stop was the Paris Opera house.



Academic nationale de Musique. Basically, it's the Opera House in Paris. You can see some rather well-dressed people around here. There are lots of expensive shops in this area.

Soon, we made a stop at MacDonalds to use the toilets and discovered that Paris' Macs has ipod stations for you to enjoy some music while having your burgers and fries..




We made another visit to the Arc de triomphe





Then we take a photo of the Arc de Triomphe from the middle of the road, at the divider. Could feel the wind from the cars whizzing past every now and then. Bbrr..

It seems as if the cars travelling under the arc, but it is just an optical illusion. The cars are turning to the left or right just before the arc.





Under the arc.

Taking a rest..


Eiffel tower at night!


The Sparkling Eiffel tower. Feel like being with your loved ones when you see such a beautiful sight.


From the bottom!







After the Eiffel, we took a walk to the Napoleon's tomb, which was some distance away.

Easter tour day 5(Berlin)