We arrive on Sunday May 16th around 10 am and here is what I%26#39;ve come up with so far:
Sunday:
Notre Dame
Musee Cluny
Saint-Chapelle and Conciergie
Eiffel Tower
Monday:
Louvre
Orangerie
walk Champs-Elysees starting with Place De La Concorde and ending at Arc De Triomphe
Tuesday:
Rodin Museum
Napoleon%26#39;s Tomb/Army Museum
sewer tour
Sacre Couer/Montmarte
Wednesday:
Versailles
Seine river cruise (evening)
Thursday:
Musee D%26#39;Orsay
Musee Carnavalet
Pompidou Center
Friday:
Rue Mouffetard (street market)
Catacombs
Pere Lachaise Cemetery
Saturday:
depart for Normandy
Does this seem like a reasonable plan? Thanks!
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I actually think this is a great schedule. I just have two comments:
My favorite building in Paris is the Opera Garnier. I encourage you to take an English guided tour or at least do a self-tour of the building. It is nothing short of spectacular. It is where the Phantom of the Opera was filmed. Be sure to notice the beautiful ceiling painted by Marc Chagall.
The other thing is that friday is a little ghoolish--Catacombs AND Pere Lachaise Cemetery in one day. I enjoyed them both so I think it is great to do them both--but I would split them up and put them on two different days.
Have a great trip.
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All looks very reasonable and nicely done!
You may have to plan around services visiting Notre Dame and Ste-Chapelle on a Sunday...In fact, you might want to switch Sunday and Monday.
You%26#39;ll probably want to shower and change after your sewer tour and before heading to Sacre Coeur/Montmartre.
When you go to Pere LaChaise, stay on the metro or bus until Gambetta, and start at the northern entrance. On your way, you can pick up a very detailed map at almost any florist shop for about €2. (The maps online and in all the tour guides leave out a lot of roads/lanes, making it difficult to find things and easy to get lost.) This way, you%26#39;ll be exploring downhill. If you enter from the south, it%26#39;s uphill all the way, and the place is enormous!
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I agree with djkbooks: You absolutely have to have a map of Pere LaChaise cemetery. It also is much more enjoyable, as was said, to start from the top of the cemetery and walk down. It is very hilly--down is much better. When you get off the Metro at Gambetta, you are about one block from the cemetery. Just before you get to the cemetery gate there is a flower shop. I think you can get a map there. It isn%26#39;t easy to find your way around the cemetery with a map, let alone without one. You won%26#39;t get lost as in SCARY but it is hard to find particular grave stones, e.g., Jim Morrison, Sarah Burnhardt, Marcel Marceau, Chopin, etc.
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There are lots of florist shops on both sides of the street between Gambetta and Pere LaChaise entrance, and most sell the maps.
Oscar Wilde, for example, is near the %26quot;top%26quot; and Jim Morrison is near the %26quot;bottom%26quot;. As we were exploring downhill, we passed a couple and the lady exclaimed, %26quot;There is just NO WAY I%26#39;m going to make it to Oscar!%26quot; And, %26quot;I wish we had saved Jim Morrison for last!%26quot;
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hey all
im just curious since ill be vaisitng paris in about a month
whats the sewer tour?
thanks
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Quite literally a tour of the sewers of paris, well the walkable ones
viamagazine.com/top_stories/…paris00.asp
and you won%26#39;t need to work around Sundy mass at Ste Chapelle, it is no longer a consecrated church.
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Thanks everyone for your comments! It was time consuming to figure out so I%26#39;m glad to hear that it seems workable.
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