Breakfast at the hotel

We started our second day in Paris with breakfast at our hotel.

Dinner Les Embruns Creperie

We came here for dinner near our hotel. We now know that a creperie only sells crepe. It sells crepe with ham, eggs, ground beef, potato, salmon, tomato etc.

Crepe with cheese, ham and egg

Crepe with cheese, ground beef and egg

Louvre Museum : Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities

This is the third department we visited. We wanted to see two of the museum's three great ladies; the Venus de Milo and the Victory of Samothrace.

Venus de Milo

Greek funeral stele very similar to what we saw in Kerameikos, Greece

Hadrian and his wife Sabina

Sarcophagus with the Mith of Dionysos and Ariadne

Hi! Every one

Winged Victory of Samothrace

We could not finish the trail and will continue on Friday evening since we have planned to visit Louvre for two evenings.

Louvre Museum: Egyptian Antiquities

The creation of the Egyptian department is not a direct consequence of Napoleon's expedition to Egypt between 1798 and 1801. It was Champollion, when he became the curator of the department.

The Great Sphinx of Tanis

Statue of Nakhthorheb

Statue of Horus

Chapel of the Tomb of Akhethotep

Inside the Chapel

Inside wall of the Chapel

Louvre Museum : The Medieval Moats

We knew we could not see the whole of Louvre and we decided to spend two evenings there. We followed one of the trails provided by Lourve; Masterpieces, in Search of Ideal Beauty. 

The Louvre started as a fortress and then a Royal Palace before it was turned into a museum when the French Monarchy moved to Versailles in 1793.

The estimated time of the trail was 1 hour 30 mins. We could not complete the trail because each section is so big with so many things to see and not to mention getting lost along the way.

Louvre Museum

We decided to visit Louvre Museum in the evening because it is open until 9.45 pm on Wednesday and Friday. This is also because the days are shorter in winter and we had to visit the outdoor sights during the day.

The entrance into Louvre Museum from the Palais-Royal-Musee du Louvre station

The Louvre Pyramid

September 2003

Les Catacombes

This catacomb was built in 1810 to solve Paris' overflowing cemeteries by exhuming the bones and storing them here. It is also the world's largest grave as it holds the remains of more 6 million people.

We reached there at about 5.05 pm

We have to queue for 1.5 hours to get in 

The entrance to the Catacombes

130 steps to go down

Only this 1.5 km long tunnel is open to the public
(unless you are a cataphile)

"Stop! This is the Empire of the Dead"

The movie As Above, So Below was filmed here

This catacomb was originally the limestone quarries initially situated on the outskirt of Paris before the city expanded.

It is estimated that the maze of tunnels herein are about 300 km long

80 steps up to the street level