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It was here that I asked an attendant at the tower how to get back to my hotel, always have a hotel card with me incase I get lost. She said, "You are not going to walk to there it is so far". She pointed me in the right direction and off I went. I walked and took more pictures on the way. It is amazing how far you walk when you are taking pictures of all the great sites.

As time and many miles on I stopped at a hotel and asked, he said, "You are not going to walk that far, he gave me a map and off I went". I then decided to take the metro as my feet were so sore.

This is the elevator system at the tower.

The arrangement of the lifts has been changed several times in the Tower's history.

Owing to the elasticity of the cables and the time taken to get the cars level with the landings, each lift in normal service takes an average of 8 minutes and 50 seconds to do the round trip, spending an average of 1 minute and 15 seconds at each floor. The average journey time between floors is just 1 minute.

The 1899 east and west hydraulic mechanism works are on display to the public in a small museum.

The Eiffel Tower was named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. Erected in 1889 as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair, it was initially criticised by some artists and intellectuals, but it has become one of the most recognizable structures in the world.

The tower is the tallest structure in Paris and the most visited paid monument in the world.

The tower is 324 metres (1,063 ft) tall, about the same height as an 81-storey building.

It was tallest man-made structure in the world, a title it held for 41 years when it was built.