This last Thursday we planned our work holiday around seeing the Catacombs of Paris only to find out that they were closed, so, we rescheduled and planned on going there today. After a late start we finally made it to the Metro stop and found a HUGE line wrapping around the block. Our worst fears were made true as we found at that this was indeed the line to get into the catacombs. It was literally 400 people long! We met another American couple in front of us in line and chatted it up with them throughout our more than 1 and a half our wait in line!
So the catacombs were incredible. We had an audio guide with us which came in handy a couple times as we made our 20 meter decent under the metro lines and city water lines through the old mines. The old mines were cool but the best part was going into the chambers were the 6 million peoples' bones are laid out. It is seriously a life changing experience. We hope the pictures give you some sort of idea of how incredible it was, but it is definitely something we would recommend checking out on your next trip to Paris.
I'm glad it was worth the wait. It looks incredible!
ReplyDeleteA couple of comments on these photos. #1 look how curly clay's hair is. Its awesome. #2 If we are making weird faces in any of these pics, its because it was dark down there... so our eyes are big, and also because we are surrounded by bones.... which should be pretty obvious, and also because about every 30 seconds cold water from the ceiling would drip down on us... that was by far the worst part.
ReplyDeleteHard to believe there are that many bones so artistically arranged.
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