Divide and conquer!

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Sometimes it isn’t easy to try to please everyone. Most of the time on our Paris trip we tried to do things together, but one day we decided to split into two groups. My partner and Little One wanted to go up the Eiffel tower, but I wasn’t so keen as I did that last time, it’s very expensive and I didn’t like the feeling around there, it really seemed like a prime spot for pickpockets and other undesirables and I felt I had to be watching my back all the time. Big One wasn’t too keen either as she sometimes has trouble with her knees if she has to climb too many steps. So we chose to go to the Musee du Quai Branly instead, which is close by. With just the two of is, we could take our time, safe in the knowledge that the others were not twiddling their thumbs waiting for us at the exit as we examined every display! The Musee du Quai Branly is a huge ethnographic museum celebrating the arts of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania and was instigated by President Jacques Chirac and opened only in 2006. It’s a huge modern building with a landscaped outdoor space below and a green wall fronting the Seine. Inside it is divided according to geographic area, with the different areas indicated by different coloured flooring and smooth curving walls reminiscent of adobe. We knew we had no chance of getting around all of it, so headed for the section on central America, a part of the world we didn’t know much about. That was really interesting, because as well as the Aztec, Mayan and Incan cultures which we did know something of, we discovered several other cultures we hadn’t heard much about including the Toltec, Zapotec, Totonac, Moche and Tiwanaku. They also had a special temporary exhibition about Zombies and the Haitian religion of Voodoo. I confess by the time we had been around all that I felt I had had enough of zombies for a lifetime, I found it all quite creepy! All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2024.