Sight Seeing

• **Arc de Triomphe - Couple of hours**

  • Napoleon's huge flex on the world. Defs recommend going here.
  • Nice view on the whole city, lots of stairs but worth it

• The Basilica of Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre

  • Can see the eiffel tower sparking from a corner of the Sacré-Cœur
  • Nice place to chill and sit on the steps and overlook Paris. Lots of buskers and there’s a bit of a vibe.
  • Apparently, you can go up the dome for a small entrance fee. After passing the security Scheck head down on the left.

• Luxembourg gardens - Couple of hours

  • Very nice part of Paris, great place for a picnic.
  • Tame Impalas Lonerism album art was taken here

• Eiffel tower - Couple of hours

  • Can go up but there’s a huge line. I’ve never been up but hanging at the park is pretty nice
  • Go to a place where you can see it sparkle at night - sparkling happens for ~5 minutes on the hour every hour at night
  • My preference the bir-hakeim bridge, where a scheme from inscription was filmed)

Museums

• **Louvre - Half/Full day**

  • You can spend an entire day here. Things to make sure

    • Get one of the audio guides; they’re really great and they’re a custom OS on a Nintendo DS

    • Don’t enter via the main entrance. There’s another one underground that’s accessible from the metro station which has almost no wait compared to entering via the main entrance

      • See this? turn around.

      

      • ? go down the stairs, walk toward the pyramid straight past all the fucking tourists. Do not get in line with them.

      

  • The Tuileries Garden out the front is pretty nice, and the walk from here to the eiffel tower across the Seine is amazing

• Musée d'Orsay - Couple of hours
  • I’d spend less time here, just because I feel like art museums can get tiring pretty quickly. When I went I didn’t have an audio guide which I regret but I was with some friends who gave somewhat of a tour. Definitely get the audio tour; you need to register beforehand.
  • This is also pretty close to the Louvre but I would do them on different days

Activities

• Croissant tour of Paris
  • Go to any of the Paris croissant places here
  • The 2023 croissant awards list are here. Defs hit up as many places that you can
  • Give Josh notes on what you think; also take photos of the croissant (1 before and 1 after the first bite 😆) -try Mamiche at rue Condorcet (nerver tried before and it requires tasing, very butter if the Instagram recommendations are true)
• Moulin Rouge
  • Very famous french variety show. It’s a lot of fun, even if it’s touristy.
  • There’s also crazy horse which is still touristy, I didn’t go to this one cause I had covid :((

Versailles - An entire day

• Versailles is my happy place.
• Get tickets beforehand.
• If you get a tour you don’t need to wait in line.
• You need a ticket to go to the gardens, if you want to see the queen's hamlet (Josh's happy happy place) and the Trianon it requires an extra ticket. Still very worth it.
• Tours
  • I took a tour of the versailles palace. The amount of history is pretty crazy
• The gallery of great battles
  • There’s a lot of recognisable events that are documented here. There are a lot of more peaceful scenes in Versailles and Paris but this place tells a pretty extensive picture of modern history, especially from the American revolution til now.