New Orleans Travel Tips
New Orleans has long seduced visitors with its Caribbean color, sultry Southern heat, sweet-tasting cocktails and voodoo potions. The unofficial state motto, "let the good times roll," pretty much says it all, and any time you step outside, be ready for a meandering conversation with a total stranger.
Hurricane Katrina caused a mass exodus, but the people of New Orleans have embraced the process of rebuilding. Although the population in town has been halved by the post-storm exodus, the areas along the river, most-frequented by visitors, never saw flooding and are once again thronged with the city's trademark joyfulness. Now more than ever, tourism is critical to the future of New Orleans. All reports we hear from travelers suggest that New Orleans has just about regained its pre-Katrina reputation as America's most fun city.
Beignets at Café du Monde
Written by Viator, April 2011
Café du Monde, recognizable by its green-and-white striped awning on Decatur Street across the street from Jackson Square, is the city’s premier place to be “French.” At all times of the day, ...
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New Orleans Mardi Gras
Written by Viator, December 2010
The New Orleans Carnival season is justly famous around the world, but there’s more to Mardi Gras than bared breasts and drunken excess. Carnival has its roots in Christian traditions and the ...
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New Orleans Suggested Itineraries
Written by Viator, August 2010
New Orleans is a confluence of cultures. Originally settled by the French, then the Spanish, then reverting back to the French and their Haitian friends before finally being sold to the Americans, ...
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Swamps & Bayous from New Orleans
Written by Viator, January 2011
Revel in the history and culture of the Cajun people while pursuing contact with the distinctive wildlife found in the swamps and bayous of Southern Louisiana. The region is replete with so much ...
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New Orleans Cemeteries, Ghosts & Voodoo
Written by Viator, August 2010
After the Haitian Revolt in 1804, New Orleans received a massive influx of Hatian émigrés, and as a result, their culture and voodoo religion came along with them. That, the sordid history ...
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Audubon Nature Institute
Written by Hudson, USA, March 2013
The Audubon Nature Institute is a family of museums and parks located in New Orleans, Louisiana. Consisting of The Audubon Zoo, the Aquarium of the Americas, Audubon Park, the Audubon Louisiana ...
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Best Mardi Gras Parades
Written by Hudson, USA, February 2013
Headed to New Orleans
for Mardi Gras? One of the best times of year, this iconic festival is
always a blast for everyone involved, and everyone’s questions seem to
be the same: What are the ...
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Best Oysters in New Orleans
Written by Hudson, USA, December 2012
Sure, ask a hundred people and you’re likely to get a hundred answers: where are the best oysters in New Orleans ?
This town is rife with foodies and if you’re one of the visiting tribe,
consider ...
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Canal Street Ferry to Algiers Point
Written by Hudson, USA, May 2012
One highlight to any trip to New Orleans is the French Quarter .
It’s here you’ll find the dancers, the French Market, the bars, the
old, rich cultural center of one of America’s oldest cities. ...
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City Park
Written by Hudson, USA, April 2012
New Orleans is surrounded at every turn by resplendent oak trees dripping with Spanish moss, and since the briny Lake Pontchartrain lies just to the North, and the bayou to its south, east and west, ...
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Creole and Cajun Eating
Written by Viator, August 2012
Headed to New Orleans? Get ready. From crawfish etouffee to jambalaya to filet gumbo, New Orleans has got the best and most distinctive food in the whole U.S. It doesn’t matter if you’re not ...
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Crescent City Farmer's Market
Written by Hudson, USA, October 2012
After traipsing through the menagerie of excellent eating in New Orleans ,
some people develop a hankering to try their culinary talents on their
own home stove. If this is you—that is to say, if ...
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Exploring New Orleans' Magazine Street
Written by Hudson, USA, January 2013
If you’ve made your way down south and are exploring the gorgeous and cheap avenues of New Orleans ,
you’ve likely been directed to spend some of your time exploring
Magazine Street. This winding ...
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Film Festival in the Hollywood of the South
Written by Hudson, USA, October 2011
Headed down south? Well I doubt you’ve heard of New Orleans being referred to as “Hollywood of the South,” but the moniker is well deserved. Seems like every other month someone is shooting a movie ...
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Halloween in New Orleans
Written by Hudson, USA, October 2011
Seems like just about everyone is gearing up for Halloween, but then this should be no surprise; many outlandish settle in New Orleans ,
and let’s not forget the Haitian roots here beckoning back ...
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