Paris, France

Hye everyone and assalamualaikum. How are ya doing? Hope you guys are in a good health. Did you all wait for my blog updates? Hahaha *perasan -_-"* FYI, I'm done with Pediatric surgery posting last week and now am doing Plastic surgery posting for another 3 weeks.


Anyhoo, forget bout the study. Hehee.. During my last Spring break, I went to United Kingdom and Europe for 21 days. I spent 5 days in Europe at the beginning of my hols and the rest were in London, UK.

I arrived at London Heathrow Airport about 8pm then I took Heathrow Express train, (which I had to add 12pounds instead of 9pounds as I bought Heathrow Connect ticket at the counter but got into wrong train. Grrrr.!) to get to London Paddington. Here I simplify for you about the options you have to get to London from the Heathrow Airport.

• Heathrow Express directly to London Paddington : 21pounds
• Heathrow Connect, to London Paddington also but has several stops before it : 9pounds
• Or by London Underground service, the price depends on your final destination

About 1.30 am, from New Cross Gate Atiya and I rushed to Baker's Street to catch our bus to London Luton airport. Actually we were 2 hours late from our bus schedule but thanked to the driver, he allowed us to get into the bus. Phewww~~ Ah well, my first destination in Euro trip was PARIS.

Our flight departure was at 8am and we arrived at Paris CDG airport at 9am. The flight only took 2 hours. At the airport terminal, you can purchase 10euros train ticket available at the counter or from the machine to get to Paris, also don't forget to buy your daily/2days/5days ticket so you can be around Paris easily. But what we did were we bought 2days ticket which cost us 30euros each (that was so so so wrong) T_T because the ticket included ALL THE FIVE ZONES IN FRANCE. FIVE ZONES WEHH. Pfffttttt... Padahal all the attractions are in ZONE ONE AND TWO ONLY which about 13euros for 2days. T_T *nangis kire2 duit* But, we didn't buy another ticket for train to Paris because we had that FIVE ZONES ticket already. Agak2 laa kalau nak kena beli tiket lagi kan. Pfffttt..


After we reached our Hotel Richard and put our bags aside, we went out to Musée du Louvre.
 

The Louvre Palace and the Pyramid. The weather was gloomy that day. Spoiled our picturesT__T

About The Louvre :

• Is a huge art gallery housed in an old Parisian palace. 
• It holds a collection of nearly 400,000 items of art and historical objects in its permanent collection. This collection includes the Mona Lisa and Venus De Milo.
• The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) which began as a fortress built in the late 12th century under Philip II.
• During the French Revolution, the National Assembly decreed that the Louvre should be used as a museum, to display the nation's masterpieces. 
• The museum opened on 10 August 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings, the majority of the works being royal and confiscated church property.
• As of 2008, the collection is divided among eight curatorial departments: Egyptian Antiquities; Near Eastern Antiquities; Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities; Islamic Art; Sculpture; Decorative Arts; Paintings; Prints and Drawings.

Left : Me and Atiya

In front of the Pyramid. They also got pyramid haaa in France. Not in Egypt only. Kehkehkeh :p

The monument of..... Napolean?

Night view

:)

During night..

Besides the Louvre, we visited one of the most visible icons of Paris, Eiffel Tower.  

La dame de fer

Eiffel Tower :

• Is an iron lattice tower built in 1889 by Gustave Eiffel for the 1889 World's Fair
• Located on Champ de Mars. 
• At 324 metres its the tallest building in Paris
• The tower has three levels for visitors
• The walk from ground level to the first level is over 300 steps, as is the walk from the first to the second level. 
• The third and highest level is accessible only by elevator. Both the first and second levels feature restaurants.

Weather on 2nd day in Paris. Antiknyewwwwwww. Can you spot the rainbow in the picture? Ihiks :D

Aihh.. So beauty :)

Row row row your boat

Berkelip-kelip.

Right : Eiffel Tower during the gloomy day. Left : It's night. Berkelip-kelip yaww. :D

I was holding that big white tulip.!

Hip hip horraaaaayyyyy.!!!

On the way to our 3rd place.

3rd place : Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile

• The monument was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806, and its iconographic program pitted heroically nude French youths against bearded Germanic warriors in chain mail.
• It was built to honour those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, with the names of all French victories and generals inscribed on its inner and outer surfaces. 
• Beneath its vault lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I.

Arc de Triomphe. It stands in the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle (originally named Place de l'Étoile), at the western end of the Champs-Élysées

4th place : Notre Dame Cathedral

Our Lady of Paris

Notre Dame de Paris's description :

• is a Gothic, Roman Catholic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France. 
• It is the cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Paris: that is, it is the church that contains the cathedra (official chair) of the Archbishop of Paris, currently André Vingt-Trois. 
• The cathedral treasury houses a reliquary with the purported Crown of Thorns.
• Is widely considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture in France and in Europe.
• The first period of construction from 1163 into 1240s coincided with the musical experiments of the Notre Dame school.

Cover album,anyone? :p

Lots of people.! Well, it was Easter holidays after all.

Art.

5th place: Moulin Rouge (Red Mill)

• Is a cabaret in Paris, France. 
• It was built in 1889 by Joseph Oller
• Is best known as the spiritual birthplace of the modern form of the can-can dance.
• Originally introduced as a seductive dance by the courtesans who operated from the site, the can-can dance revue evolved into a form of entertainment of its own and led to the introduction of cabarets across Europe .

FOODS SECTION. HEWHEWHEW

An ice cream. 2 scoops of 2 flavor. Nomnomnom.. 5euros meh. Sobsobsob

France, world of Patisserie. This one was at Maison Landemaine Roquette, near our Hotel Richard. 

Anddddddddd.... That picture ends my entry for Paris. Actually I've got so many pictures taken in Paris, but I chose the best one to upload here. If you wish to see a lot more pictures, do tell me. I'll add them here for ya. :)



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