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10 Amazing Private tours to take in Paris
The city of Paris is renowned worldwide for its charming atmosphere, spectacular scenery and delicious cuisines. It is a must-visit city for all the adventurous souls, romantics and food lovers out there. The city of lights welcomes you to an epic adventure.
You have already unpacked your bags, taken a well-deserved hot shower and filled your stomach with the best French cuisine you have ever tasted, now you are wondering with what to do with the rest of your day? Below are the 10 amazing tours to take in Paris.
1. Montmartre Private Walking Tour
Montmartre seen from Notre Dame de Paris, including the Basilica of the Sacré-Cœur – Wikipedia
Montmartre, meaning the martyr’s hill, is a large hill in Paris’s northern 18th arrondissement known for its artistic heritage. It began as a village, surrounded by vineyards and farmland, after a tax wall was built around Paris in 1785.
From the 19th century up-to-date Montmartre has caught the attention of Bohemian artists, with the most famous being where Picasso painted his breakthrough masterpiece, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.
During this tour, you will visit different iconic landmarks and off-the-beaten-track sights, from the Moulin Rouge windmill to the home of Vincent van Gogh. From the hilltop of the Basilique du Sacré Coeur, get the greatest bird’s view of the city of Paris.
Here’s more reasons why you should book a walking tour in Montmartre.
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Tour highlights: Moulin Rouge; an iconic burlesque show, Rue Lepic; ancient road that tells of how Montmartre came to be, Le Passe-Muraille; a sculpture designed as a man coming through a wall; Place du Tertre; the former centre of the village of Montmartre and Basilique du Sacre-Coeur de Montmartre; has one of the most beautiful panoramic views of the capital, from 130 metres above ground.
2. Paris Street art tour
Haddock and Tintin kiss on the facade of a building – Wikimedia Commons
The mid-1980s saw a boom in the number of street artists and street art in Paris. Today, street art has become a familiar part of urban landscape, from the La Villette canal basin through the festive neighborhood of Oberkampf to the 13th arrondissement and the nearby suburbs. Paris has become one of the best cities to discover new street art.
During the recommended tour, you cover le Treizième – the thirteenth ‘arrondissement’ or district. In the 1960s, artists wanting to beautify their surroundings began painting murals on the facades of buildings in this industrial district, metamorphosing it into a veritable open-air museum.
To truly understand the dedication of this district to street art, in 2013 a building earmarked for demolition was painted from top to toe by street artists and opened to the public for a month before being torn down. Now imagine the endless beautiful art pieces you can discover during this tour.
Find out more about Paris Street Art here.
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Tour highlights: Un mystérieux poème’ by Cryptik; Maruani, a bookshop selling food and cookbooks at 171 Boulevard Vincent Auriol, is covered with strange squiggles, Turncoat’ by D*Face, on a 25-metre-high wall at 55 Boulevard Vincent Auriol a portrait of a woman is painted in vibrant colours, The Lavo//matik and Galerie Itinerrance, gallery/shop is devoted to street art and so much more.
3. Boules & Wine in Paris
Boules players – Wikipedia
Nothing shouts “Great time” louder than enjoy a great glass of wine and having fun playing a game. Remember the most import part of this tour is to have a good time, feel like a child again and not stressing on winning.
Boules is played between two players or teams. Players take turns throwing or rolling a ball as close as possible to the target ball. The objective is to score points by having boules closer to the target than the opponent after all boules have been thrown.
To add to the fun while sipping on your wine glass and tossing your ball, you have a great view of the Notre Dame and Louvre.
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Tour highlights: A full game of boules, 2 glasses of wine, snacks, cheese, and charcuterie
4. Eiffel Tower Summit Access With A Guide
Up-close view of Eiffel Tower – Wikipedia
The Eiffel Tower is one of the world’s most recognizable landmarks and a global cultural icon of France. Nicknamed “La dame de fer” (French for “Iron Lady”), it is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars.
It was constructed from 1887 to 1889 as the centerpiece of the 1889 World’s Fair and named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. Today the tower is the most-visited paid monument in the world with an average of 25,000 people visiting the tower every day.
The Eiffel Tower summit access with a guide offers you panoramic views of famous Parisian monuments like the Arc de Triomphe, the Montparnasse Tower, The Louvre and the Sacré Coeur.
Still wondering what the hype with the Eiffel Tower is all about? Have a look at why it is still worthwhile visiting the Eiffel Tower.
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Tour highlights: A ride by elevator to the 2nd level of the Eiffel Tower, a lift from the 2nd level up to the summit, where you can see Gustave Eiffel’s office, along with panoramic maps and learn about the lesser-known facts about the Eiffel Tower.
5. Paris Caviar and Champagne Private Tour
Caviar – Wikipedia
Fall in love with the luxurious side of Paris where quality is never compromise due to high cost. True caviar is the roe of a sturgeon that has been salted, while the size of the bubbles signify the quality of the Champagne.
Legend has it that the ancient Persians believed Caviar to have medicinal properties and was called “Khay-Var”, or “cake of power”. Eating this luxurious delicacy benefits your body with numerous health benefits. Champagne from Champagne-Ardennes is renowned worldwide for its quality. It is praised for its rich flavors of peach, cherry, citrus, almond, cream, and toast.
This tour is guaranteed to leave you feeling like an heiress/heir to a multibillion empire. You will to appreciate the value of quality products and not get repelled by their high cost.
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Tour highlights: Napoleon’s Column; a 53-metre-high Corinthian order triumphal column on the Rue Napoleon in Wimille, near Boulogne-sur-Mer, Coco Chanel’s home; from where a fashion empire was born, Concorde Plaza; famous for the Luxor Obelisk (a 3,300-year-old Egyptian obelisk), the surrounding prestigious hotels, and the two monumental fountains (Fontaine des Mers and Fontaine des Fleuves) and Paris Caviar House; known to have the best caviars and exceptional iodized products.
6. World War II Paris Walking Tour
The Paris Holocaust Memorial – Wikipedia
The human race is considered to be the most intelligent living thing on this planet, but we sure do make the most “stupid”, lack of a better word, decisions. This tour reminds us of how a single person full of hatred can poison a whole nation, resulting in the death of millions.
Paris fell to Nazi Germany on June 14, 1940, eight days later, France signed an armistice with the Germans, and a puppet French state was set up with its capital at Vichy. For the next four years, life in Paris was a living nightmare.
This tour takes you through this period in Paris and how its citizens were able to survive before the 2nd French Armored Division, supported by the U.S. 4th Infantry, defeated the German forces.
History fans can read more here on World War II in Paris.
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Tour highlights: The Jewish Quarter; most famous Jewish neighborhood, The Paris Holocaust Memorial; a museum dedicated to Jewish history during the Second World War, The War Deportation Memoria; a memorial to the 200,000 people who were deported from Vichy France to the Nazi concentration camps during World War II and The Nazi Military HQ; the Parisian headquarters of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the counter-intelligence branch of the SS during the German occupation of Paris in World War II.
7. Foods of Paris: The Grand Tour
Your tour of Paris is not complete without sitting down and enjoy a well-cooked French meal. French cuisine is worldwide known for its rich flavors and magical taste in the tongue. The French are able to turn the weirdest of things, a frog for example, into Cuisses de grenouille. Many who have tried this mean have compared its taste to that of chicken.
Therefore, before putting anything in your mouth, be sure to exactly know what you’re eating, just in case you’re not int frogs. However, at the same time, do not be afraid to step outside your comfort zone and try something new.
The tour allows you to sample, and get the story behind the different foods in the different eateries you will visit. Make sure you come with an empty stomach, ready to taste the best of Paris.
Here’s why French cuisine is considered the best in the world.
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Tour highlights: A very careful selection of foods from top eateries, bearing in mind most allergies.
8. Dark Side Tour of Paris private tour
Painting depicting St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre – Wikipedia
Sometimes we forget that Paris is not just a bed of roses, but it also has a gruesome dark side to it. Underneath the city lies a dark and creepy side involving plenty of ghosts, legends, murders, and dead famous people.
During this tour you will learn stories from the city’s dark past from your local guide of tortures, imprisonments, beheading and murders. This tour will definitely impact your view of Paris, and in the process hake you hold your blanket tighter during the night.
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Tour highlights: The Latin Quarter, formerly so dangerous at night that a curfew had been ongoing for centuries, The oldest district of Paris used to be appreciated by alchemists in medieval times, and one of its churches used to be the shelter of a very closed circle of Black Masses and witchcraft during the reign of Louis XIV and the beautiful steeple of a church, still carrying the bells that triggered one of the biggest mass slaughter of the XVIth century, and that inspired the “Red Wedding” episode in Game of Throne.
9. Tuktuk Private Tour Paris
An electric tuktuk – Unsplash
Sit down are conscious free relax as you tour the city of Paris in your private electric tuktuk. Conscious free as this tuktuk are eco-friendly and are fully charged so no scare of it just stopping unexpectedly during the tour.
Your guide will drive you to important sites include the Eiffel Tower, Trocadero, Arc de Triomphe, Champs Élyées, the Louvre, Notre-Dame, Montmartre and the Sacré Coeur and give you a brief history and cultural importance oof each landmark.
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Tour highlights: The Eiffel Tower, Trocadero, Arc de Triomphe, Champs Élyées, the Louvre, Notre-Dame, Montmartre and the Sacré Coeur.
10. Custom tailored private tour
Night view of the Eiffel Tower and Les Invalides, in the 7th arrondissement – Wikipedia
This option allows you to personally customize your tour by select the sites you wish to visit, how you wish to visit the sites and when to visit the sites.
This is a great option, especially if they’re specific attractions you wish to see and do not want the inconvenience of having to make stops at sites that do not interest you.
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Tour highlights: You choose what you want to see
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