March 30, 09 : Notre Dame de Paris - Louvre Museum - Arc de Triomphe - Avenue des Champs-Élysées - Galeries Lafayette - Charles de Gaulle Airport
up at 3.30 am. my normal wake up time here..
..breakfast was absolutely the same as yesterday..
..but i had more fruit today.. seemed to be the best one on the menu..
we left the hotel with our luggages at 9 am.. chill chill.. plenty of time to do things in the morning; read, journal, take photos, pack luggages..
..along the way to paris..
Notre Dame de Paris
our first stop was notre dame. the weather was chilly and a bit windy as the previous days. but it was better when the sun started to beam.. notre dame was grand and beautiful standing proudly in the sunlight.. i've been knowing and learning about it for a long time and today was my first day seeing and getting to know it in person..
let's go inside..
..inside the cathedral was illuminated by candles and chandeliers along the way.. on top were lines of stained colorful glass windows..
..we walked silently to admire its grand charm..
..outside, right after the exit..
..yeah, we wish to come back again..
leaving the cathedral, we looked for a wc and we found one underground.. walked down a flight of stairs and just followed the walkway.. (pretty the same as the one at the eiffel town but this one, they allowed me to take pictures..how nice!)
then we walked back to the coach
..passed rows of cafe and a souvenir shop.. too bad that we didn't have time to stop and look around..
..and now views from the coach.. we were heading to Louvre Museum ..
Joan of Arc statue at Place des Pyramides
..antonio dropped us somewhere not so far from the louvre musuem and we had to walk there..
The Louvre Museum
entering the area of louvre museum, i saw that it was quite wide and spacious.. it looked so stunning and exquisite.. what a shame we didn't have much time to walk down to see more underground..
and now we walked back to where we were dropped off and once again.. we got lost before we reached the coach..
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next, we were heading to Arc de Triomphe
Arc de Triomphe
joon didn't get off the coach. she wanted to view it from the coach. i walked around and took some photos. better than last time i visited, as i viewed it from the coach when it drove pass..
after Arc de Triomphe, we would have lunch at a thai restaurant named "bien bien".. it was located in a narrow road, so we got dropped off on the main road and then walked inside..
..inside the restarant.. quite busy at lunch time and all the tables were taken..
..this was our last meal in paris.. don't ask me how it was... i think thai food is meant to be eaten in thailand.. you will get all spices of it! ..still, better than chinese food..
after lunch was the happiest time for longchamp and Louis Vuitton followers. the guide would drop us off at Galeries Lafayette for 4 hours! (oh! before that we went to paris look - another shopping center for thai and asian shoppers..) ..
Galeries Lafayette
inside, the roof top looks like a dome decorated with colorful stained glass.. huge and gorgeous.. there were quite a big number of brandname shops lining up on each floor.. if you are not careful, you might come back home dirt-poor!
at 6.00 pm, we gathered back on the coach and headed straight to Charles de Gaulle airport. upon arriving, we had to look for place to repack our luggages, due to our shopping spree.. and then checked in at qatar counters...
a view from the passenger lounge
..our boarding time was 8.25 pm.. but we really left paris at 10 pm. tired but pleased.. i slept after settling in my seat, didn't take dinner.. just wanted to sleep.. we arrived doha at 5 am, local time..
