The silhouette of Notre Dame in the setting sun
A single post on Paris (my first post on Paris) does not do justice to this lovely city. I found a video which we had shot in the summer of 2004. That had been our first visit to Europe. We had taken a tour from Cox and Kings. It covered Italy, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Holland and England. We had taken great pains at that time to shoot videos, to show it to the family back home. We had fallen in love with Paris during that trip.The advantage of going on a guided tour was that we were provided with the services of a qualified guide, at all the places. We had a nice guide in Paris. She gave us insight into the lives of the parisians. I particularly loved the Cathedral of Notre Dame. It has innumerable stories attached to it. This video shows Cathedral Notre Dame from inside also.
The Notre dame de Paris ('Our Lady of Paris' in French), also known as the Notre Dame Cathedral, is a Gothic, Roman Catholic Cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France.
Besides the cathedral there is the Cathedral tower visit The Notre-Dame tower visit is a trip through all of the upper parts of the western façade, dating from the 13th century, where visitors can contemplate the gargoyles and chimera built by Viollet-le-Duc in the 19th century and the 17th century Emmanuel Bell. 387 steps (there isn’t an elevator) to the top of the South Tower. It’s best to be in good shape !
Crypt of Notre Dame de Paris
Under the square in front of Notre Dame de Paris is one of the largest archaeological crypts in all of Europe. Before the 1860s, the area in front of the Cathedral of Notre Dame was filled with buildings, some dating to the middle ages. When the buildings were torn down remnants of foundations and artifacts dating back to pre-Roman times were discovered. This area on the banks of the Seine has seen human habitation since the early Paleolithic Period, some 500,000 years ago.
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The sunset is so stunning (or is it sunrise?). How did you find the group tour experience? Would you recommend it to others?
It's sunset.
The group tour experience once I look back I realize that we really had a great time. Everything was planned for us and the meals were good. We could not have packed so much in a day, except in a group tour. The best part were the guides, which are unaffordable on a tour where you are on your own. I would recommend it for Europe definitely.
I have been to these places but always on our own. The reason of course was different.
We were living in Europe and so we were covering one country at a time after researching well about it.
Yes I agree, when one has time constraints, the best way is to go by guided/packaged tours. :-)
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Notre Dame looks good and happy you are digging out stuff from earlier years and posting them. I am going to RT this blog on Twitter.
To not to fall in love with Paris would be an understatement, otherwise it wouldn't be the setting of so many novels, paintings and movies...
did you happened to visit catacombs there?
Nice pics....Would want to live in paris for an year atleast....nothing but painting. :-)
@Nisha I think you saw Europe in the best way possible. We took a packaged tour last time but this year we did it on our own. I realized this year that guided tours have their own advantages and we had, had a great time in the last trip. Zero worries and max fun. In london and Paris we had time to do our own thing.
@Anup Thanks for RT. I saw this video after a repeat trip to Notre Dame and realized that I should have seen it before leaving home.
@Tarun true, but sometimes you do feel that the French could be a little less snobbish it would'nt hurt anybody.
@Ajeya do you paint? Paris is of-course a painters haven and heaven.
Tarun no we did not have the time to visit the catacombs there
Thanks for the info.. The video is very nice..
@Rajesh Liked your blog too! Thanks for visiting my blog.
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Knock knock !!
Where are you busy these days? :-)
You woke me up Nisha. I have been busy with so many things professionally and at the home front. Your comment made me realize that I was neglecting my blogs.
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