Monday morning we packed our things, took advantage of the all inclusive breakfast buffet one last time, checked out and headed off to the Louvre where we spent the next three hours wandering their absolutely MASSIVE collection of art and artifacts. The building itself consists of the Palais, which is a horse-shoe shaped palace building once housing french royalty, the Pyramid, which forms the main entrance, and then several floors beneath the ground. It really would take days if not weeks to look at everything properly and to listent to the thousand odd commentaries on the audio guide. We were lucky in that, being a Monday, it wasn't too busy and so there was no queue. The great thing to see was that there were billions of school kids and students touring around - imagine going on a school trip to the Louvre, just not possible from NZ!!
The huge entry hall with the central pyramid above
The pyramids in the central courtyard of the Palais
The Venus de Milo
One wing of the Palais was built by Napoleon as his state apartments and still features the same furnishings. It's quite impressive and very grandiose.
After Louvre we had our last meal en Paris....Graham really liked his pizza!!
Here is the massive glass dome at the Galleries Lafayette. We had one more stop over there on the way back to pick up our packs and took some pictures.
AU REVOIR PARIS - SEE YOU AGAIN SOON (I HOPE!!)
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