The Eiffel Tower was build in 1900 (hopefully I remember correctly) for a World Expo, and since them has become the symbol of Paris, and rightly so. The tower really is quite impressive. Too get to the first look-out tower you can either climb over 200 stairs or get into a elevator that moves sideways. We opted for the latter. To get to the second look-out tower you can only use the elevator.
On the day we went it was extremely cold. We were all huddled up as we waited in line to get to the next elevator. I would definately not want to go to the Eiffel Tower in summer. It was packed, cold as it was, and it would not be fun if there were 3 times as many people, and much, much hotter.
The view from the top was incredable. It reminded me alot of the top of the CN tower, except for the fact that all of the buildings were centuries older. We could see the Reine and the Arc du Triumph.
When you were at the bottom, there were all of these men crawling all over the place, all of them with coloured skin, trying to sell you stuff. You coud buy like 5 mini-towers for a Euro each (I bought mine legally, don't worry). The funny thing is, that whenever a police officer would bike by, all of these guys would tie up their mat of merchindise, and completely book it down the street. They laughed.
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