Make Your Trip Memorable With The Best New Orleans Sightseeing Tours
Hop aboard an authentic steam-powered
stern wheel paddle boat bound for the Mississippi and waterfront views of The
Big Easy. While you cruise of sightseeing tours in New Orleans
experience the magic of days gone by as the live jazz band sets the tone with
catchy tunes and Dixieland favorites. Your cruise sightseeing tours depart from
the historic French Quarter and travel down the mighty Mississippi to show you
the ever-changing skyline of New Orleans and its bustling port, one of the very
busiest in the United States. Kick off the day with a calliope concert powered
by the steam-powered whistles of Natchez and then watch as the crew casts of
the mooring lines to begin your voyage.
Take
a unique eye-opening look into American history with visits to your choice of
two of three prominent plantation homes along the Mississippi riverfront. Take
a drive along the plantations
near New Orleans and Great River Road, which winds along the Mississippi
River, where the Whitney, Laura, and Oak Alley plantations sit. Whitney
Plantation, open to the public for the first time in over 260 years, it is the
only plantation museum in Louisiana that focuses on slavery. Through restored
buildings, memorial artwork, museum exhibits, and hundreds of first-person
slave narratives, Whitney serves as a site of memory and consciousness that
pays homage to all slaves who lived and died there, as well as those who lived
elsewhere in the United States. The tour is mainly designed based on
information taken from four generations of family documents that reveal the
real-life accounts of the owners who lived there.
New Orleans’ most famous “city of the
dead,” despite fears the flood waters from two hurricanes would destroy
above-ground graves and scatter the remains of the long deceased. These New Orleans cemeteries Katrina is truly
unique in the world. Enjoy the dewy, gray autumn day in New Orleans, almost
cool, and the Henley’s tour group has meandered through the French Quarter,
past the "Make Levees Not War" banners, across alcoholically aromatic
Bourbon Street, and finally over to Basin Street.
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