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Day 6- 16/9/14

This is the day where we are going to leave Paris and heading to London by Eurostar. Eurostar is a high-speed train from London to Paris via the Channel Tunnel (undersea tunnel) and it took around 2 hours.

Eurostar
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Channel Tunnel
*image from Google

Here we reached the King's Cross St. Pancras after 2 hours of train journey.

Amazing structure design in King Cross station

Once we reached at Russell Square station, we check in at our accommodation before depart to our first attraction in London. The hostel we stayed at London is The Generator. This hostel have different theme at different floor level.

Exterior of the hostel

After 1 hour of refreshing, the Lyceum Theatre was our next stop. It was another amazing building again. For me, the 4 massive Corinthian columns are the most eye-catching part of the entire building.

Facade of Lyceum Theatre

The show was based on the storyline of one of the famous Disney's cartoon, The Lion King. All the performers are dress up as the characters in The Lion King. We are not allow to capture photo or do video recording inside the theater. What inspired me the most of this show is the way they manage to create all the scene in the movie by using just a small stage to present to the audience. However, I felt sleepy and almost fall asleep during halfway of the show as we were seriously exhausted after few days of rushing journey.

Interior of theatre
*image from Google

Scar & Mufasa

Pumba & Timon

Day 5 -15/9/14

The only mission for today is to enjoy and have fun in Disneyland! We get a ticket that able to access to 2 parks which are Walt Disney Studios Park and Disneyland Park. We chose to get into Walt Disney Studios Park first as it will close early at 6pm.

Entrance of Disneyland Park

Environment in Disneyland

Once I stepped into Disneyland, I felt that I have jump into the cartoon scene as every building and objects around are just same as what we watched from the cartoon shows. My first thrill rides is The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. This is a thrilling elevator ride that plummets faster than the speed of gravity!

Interesting ceiling design in the Twilight Tower Zone

Old styles living room design

ps: you should have other warming up rides before taking this!

Interior of souvenir shop

Interior view with colourful lightning

As in Disneyland we are difficult to walk in a big group, most of us were went to explore by few people in a gang. Me and my group are more in love to all kinds of thrill rides so we decided move to Disneyland Park earlier although we did not actually done visiting at the Walt Disney Studios Park.

Facade of Disneyland Park

Panorama View in Disneyland

Lunch in the park
Give a scale of 8 for its deliciousness!

Me & Castle <3

I together with Vivian, Illin, Elyne and Jie ling went back to hostel earlier as we are too tired to wait until night for the firework. I'm so regret that I did not manage to capture much photos of those thrill rides that I took as we are running out of time to fully discover the every parts of Disneyland. =(

Day 4- 14/9/14

On this day, we went to Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier as it's the manifesto of modern architecture and also the first building that represents the 5 points of architecture.

Alley that lead us to the building

View from far

Exterior view of Villa Savoye

Before we start looking around, Miss Shar give us a short briefing about this building to let us have a better understanding when view to those spaces.

Living room

Spiral staircase

Kitchen

Hanging garden

Bathroom

The Solarium

Seating unit designed by Le Corbusier

Group photo before leaving

Arc de Triomphe was our stop after Villa Savoye. The Arc de Triomphe is to honour soldiers who fought and died in the Napoleonic Wars and beneath it lies the tomb of the unknown soldiers from World War 1. This monument is built at the center of a big roundabout. Unfortunately, we did not get near to it to view its amazing craving details.

Facade

Zoom in craving details

As some of them are going to their case study location, we went to the shopping street at Champse Elysees. We managed to get some souvenirs from the shops at Rue de Rivoli road.

Buildings along the Champse Elysees street

In this windy and cold night, our last attraction for today's journey is to have a look at Eiffel Tower with light on it!

Night view of Eiffel Tower

Guess everyone will think this is an extremely beautiful scene. <3

Day 3- 13/9/14

We gather up at 8:30 in the morning and get our own breakfast from the supermarket which just beside our hotel.

Casino supermarket which just right beside our hotel

Higher semester seniors will not be joining us for the journey as they are going to their case study

location. So, here start our route! First, we are going to Notre Dame Church de Paris.

Autumn leaves can be seen all the way during our journey

We had a chance to look at all of these interesting building during our way to Notre Dame Church. These building normally have a lot of details decoration at facade and most their railing is in ornament design. The architectural styles of these buildings are totally different from Malaysia which is more to the style of Romanesque and Baroque. One word conclusion: fascinating!

Facade of Notre Dame Church

This is the most amazing church that I have ever seen! This huge facade actually took me few minutes to view because the detailing are so fine and small!

Gargoyles as a guard statue

Glass window on Notre Dame

Rose window on Notre Dame

Flying Buttresses on Notre Dame

The Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris is a famous example of Gothic architectural.

Our next stop was the Bridge of Love Lock! <3

Different kind of padlock design

This caught my eyes!

Here we reached the Louvre Museum.

Exterior view

Pediment

Composite Column

Doric order

Vault

Massive arch entrance

Panorama view of the Louvre Museum

Pyramid is the entrance to museum through escalator

Made of metal and glass

It's actually hot when we were waiting at the lobby of museum as it's too crowded and I guess their air conditioning system is not functioning well..... = = Here's some art pieces in the museum.

Web ceiling design in museum

One of the ceiling design at the painting exhibition area
The statue and carving are just fascinating!

Mona Lisa painting

The size of Mona Lisa painting is much more smaller than I expected and it has been framed up. Frankly speaking, I did not understand why is she so famous... I should do more research on this painting perhaps.

Inverted pyramid that attached to ceiling

After few hours of visiting, we are heading to search for our lunch. As we know, the food here are expensive, so we just had Mcdonald...... TT

Our next stop is Pompidou Centre which is a place that display modern art.