Paris 2011 Day 3 – Palace of Versailles and flight to Rome
We planned a visit to the Palace of Versailles before our flight out to Rome. Versailles was a 40minutes metro ride away from our accommodation and the tickets could be purchased online, costing us 36euros for 2.
Arrived to a majestic view of the palace.
The palace was really impressive, such as this hall with pillars and such a high painted ceiling.There were many of such rooms with huge painted ceilings and the walls decorated with huge paintings.
The fireplace so grand and huge
Doors with intricate design with statues on the sides
Couldn’t get enough of the golden ceilings
Here was another one with red walls.It was quite crowded
The details of these wall carvings were amazing
The room of mirrors was really stunning
There were details on every space of the room
Then there were these luxurious rooms in certain colour setting
Another room
A bed in one of the bedroom
There were also huge wall rug pictures like these.
We decided to row a boat in the grand canal. This was the view from our boat.
Where people could rent a boat to row. It was a tiring activity though.
View while walking back from the Grand Canal
Latona fountain
Another view from the palace
Leaving this majestic palace
Horses outside the palace
For those who wished to try a horse carriage
Statue of Louis XIV in front of the palace
Taking the double decker train
On the top deck of the train, our first experience with a double decker train
Our flight to Rome Ciampino airport was on Ryanair at 920pm at night taking off from the Paris Beauvais airport. There was a shuttle service that takes passenger from Porte Maillot to the airport so we took the metro there from our accommodation. We took a while to find the pick up location but managed to do so eventually. The ride to the airport was about an 1hr 15mins.
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