Erik Davis has posted a nice account of our recent excursion into the labyrinthine tunnel system beneath the streets of Paris. It was a wild, disorientating, mucky and often extremely gruelling night, but an experience I would recommend to anyone who gets a chance.
There’s an excellent map on this site, but I would strongly advise going with someone who knows what they’re doing, as it’s no exaggeration to say that you might never see the light of day again if you get lost down there. As well as a seemingly endless fractal network of tunnels there are large, deep holes in the ground that lead to… hell knows where, but I wouldn’t want to be there. In an eight hour foray we only saw one small section of this city beneath the city – it even once had its own cinema – there are centuries of history down there, and I can’t wait to go back.
