Head to Paris by panoramic coach for an overview tour of its most significant sights and some leisure time to explore a bit on your own. The journey from the port city of Le Havre to the romantique City of Light takes a couple hours, but the lush countryside scenery makes time fly by. Once in Paris, your orientation drive will bring you past iconic sights including the Eiffel Tower, a beloved emblem of the city that was actually reviled when it went up in 1889, and the Place de la Concorde, where the guillotine famously came down on Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette in 1793. Passing the Louvre – well, that will take a while; it covers a lot of ground. At midday, you’ll have about 90 minutes’ free time to seek the lunch of your choosing; delicious food is never far from wherever you are in this town. Afterwards, you’ll resume your city survey, passing landmarks like the statuesque Arc de Triomphe, where 12 avenues converge to form one of the busiest circles anywhere, and Notre Dame, the triumphant love letter to Gothic architecture that took 150 years to complete. Ahh, there’s only one Paris.
