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Tours:

Cemetery
The city's above-ground burial sites are one of its most interesting and intriguing attractions. Save Our Cemeteries offers authentic and accurate tours and uses proceeds to preserve the gravesites:

Save Our Cemeteries
504.525.3377
www.saveourcemeteries.org

Garden District
The breathtaking architecture is worth a walk through the lavish, elegant and historic Garden District:

The Original Five Star Garden District Walking Tour
504.861.2727, no reservations necessary
Departs from The Pontchartrain Hotel, 2301 St. Charles Ave.
10:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. daily

Mississippi Riverboats
Take a cruise down the river that put New Orleans on the map as one of the world's most active ports. The Natchez, New Orleans' only steamboat, offers harbor and dinner cruises as well as a variety of other packages:

Steamboat Natchez Cruises
Reservations office in the French Quarter at JAX Brewery
504.586.8777, www.SteamboatNatchez.com

Plantation Houses
Many of the standard plantation tours offering lunch, transportation and guides are convenient but costly. You can save money by venturing on your own to one of these local favorites:

Tezcuco Plantation Home
3138 Highway 44, Darrow, Louisiana
225.562.3929, www.texcuco.com

San Francisco Plantation
2646 Highway 44 (River Road), Garyville, Louisiana
985.535.2341, www.SanFranciscoPlantation.org

Nottoway Plantation
LA Hwy 1, White Castle, Louisiana
1.866.4-A-VISIT, www.nottoway.com

Swamp
Louisiana is full of adventure that can only be reached by boat. Tours generally offer excursions on either a 40-60 passenger flat boat or a smaller, faster airboat. For a comfortable tour with plenty of Louisiana legend and lore, try the guide named after the most famous pirate of the swampland:

Jean Lafitte Swamp Tour
Highway 3134; transportation provided
504.592.0560

Vampire/Ghost/Voodoo
Several tour groups offer walks through the chilling history of the French Quarter. If you are interested in a tour that is more fact than fiction, try:

The New Orleans Ghost and Vampire Tour
504.524.0708, meets at 612 Dumaine St. nightly at 8 p.m.

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Attractions:

Aquarium of the Americas
#1 Canal Street (Canal at the river)
1.800.774.7394
www.auduboninstitute.org/aoa

Audubon Louisiana Nature Center
5601 Read Boulevard, Joe W. Brown Memorial Park
504.246.5672
www.auduboninstitute.org/alnc

Audubon Zoo
6500 Magazine Street
1.866.ITS.AZOO
www.auduboninstitute.org/zoo

Entergy Imax Theater
#1 Canal Street (Canal at the River)
1.800.774.7394

Jackson Square
The heart of the French Quarter between
St. Peter and St. Ann on Decatur, surrounded by:

• The Cabildo
• The Presbytere
• The Pontabla Apartments
• St. Louis Cathedral
www.jackson-square.com

Longue Vue House and Gardens
#7 Bamboo Road
504.488.5488
www.longuevue.com

Mardi Gras World
233 Newton Street
504.361.7821
www.mardigrasworld.com

Six Flags New Orleans
12301 Lake Forest Boulevard
www.sixflags.com


Photo courtesy U.S. Army Corps of Engineers