TILT: (Sat) Paris day 4 -- Getting High

Our last full day in Paris I spent wandering around to all the high parts of Paris -- the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, and Montmartre with Sacre Coeur. It was nice to get high. It was like taking a ring around the inner Paris.

First, Sacre Coeur -- a beautiful white apparition above the city, but so real close up. Magnificent.










Then, the Arc -- interesting placement (monument to Napoleon) on the Champs Elysees -- in one direction the Louvre, in the other La Defence with its square "gateway arch". I found the view from the top more interesting than the monument itself, but then, I'm not French.










While I took a lot of pictures, it's hard to use them to explain the experience of waiting an hour in line to get up the Eiffel Tower (and I got there early), then taking the elevator (really more like a mountain tram) up first to 2, then on a separate one to the top. Looking down while moving up did make me dizzy, but concentrating on the horizon was helpful. The top is WAY up there, so high that you really can't see much with any detail. Some say don't bother to go up (costs extra too), but I liked it. Then again, I like to get high -- the vistas are just great.




The lower floors were also interesting -- you're closer to the monuments and buildings so it's easier to see them.








It really was fun to just wander around and see everyone doing what they do.