More Paris

Day 15
April 22, 2009
Paris

Fourth day in Paris and there were still a lot of sites to see. First stop of the day was Montmarte, to see the Moulin Rouge club and the Sacred Heart Basilica.

We initially planned to get into the Moulin Rouge at night to get a glimpse of the naughty Paris of yesteryear and watch a cabaret show. We did not get the time for it, plus it was expensive.





After a brief American lunch at the opposite side of the Moulin Rouge, we went to Basilique Sacré-Cœur or Sacred Heart Basilica, a Roman Catholic church located at the very top of Montmarte.





From Montmarte, we went to Ile de la Cite, one of the 2 islands in Paris.





At Ile de la Cite is the famous Notre-Dame de Paris. This is of course made even more famous by Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame.















We went back to Louvre afterwards to have our photo-op at the Louvre pyramid, which we missed on our 2nd day at Paris. We also got to see the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel at Jardin du Carrousel.











It was then time for Mitch to leave us and go back to Singapore as she did not get a longer vacation leave. Rissa, on the other hand, had a dinner date with a French friend.

Later that night, we met Rissa and her French date at Place de la Corcorde, one of the major squares in Paris, located at the eastern end of the Champs-Élysées.



At the center of the square is a giant Egyptian obelisk decorated with hieroglyphics.







For some unknown reason, we all went back to the hotel... by foot! Rissa's date thought we enjoyed walking as much as he did. It probably took an hour to get to the hotel, but along the way we got to see the Louve pyramid again and the 45-m high Colonne de la Grande Armee, which is decorated with reliefs commemorating Napoleon's glorious campaigns.