Paris is well known for its parks and all tourists are brought to see the main ones - Luxembourg, Tuilleries, etc. A cousin of mine living in Paris brought me one day to see this park and it is indeed enchanting. The Parc des Buttes Chaumont is in the 19th district of Paris. It is in an old, abandoned, quarry and has been built by Mr. Haussmann (the same man on whose name is the boulevard where the Galeries Lafayette is) who was at the time a Mayor of Paris. It is full of greenery and small brooks and streams, waterfalls here and there and in the middle there is quite a big pond with a lot of water birds. Right in the midle of the pond there is an island, connected with a very high bridge to the shores, and on top of it there is some building reminding one of love nests in ancient times. It is worth seeing as I am afraid my photos do not do it justice.