Highlights
- Enjoy a scenic drive along the shores of Lake Ponchartrain
- Tour Destrehan Plantation with costumed guides bringing history to life
- Free time to explore the spectacular grounds of the plantation
- Experience real Cajun Country on a high-speed airboat ride
- Encounter local wildlife
Useful Information
Destrehan Plantation
First, you will ride out to the quaint and remote Cajun Village close to Paradis, LA for a thrilling high-speed ride onboard 7-passenger airboats, comfortably gliding over marshes, deep into secluded bayous for approximately 2 hours. You may even get to hold a baby alligator, feed giant catfish, or meet a nutria face to face.
Then, travel to the Destrehan Plantation for a guided tour. This historic plantation, on Louisiana's Old River Road, is a lavishly restored Greek Revival antebellum mansion. Here you will have free time to enjoy lush gardens and majestic live oaks.
Reviewed by Rich H, March 2013
Awesome ride, very knowledgeable guide, took us deep into the bayous and caught a 1.5 yoa baby gator and took us within about 3 feet of an 11.5 foot alligator. Would do it again for longer periods of time.
Reviewed by Dennis P, February 2013
It was a lovely warm sunny day but dress for a windy great ride on the airboat. Both guides as well as the van driver were very informative. We got to see several alligators sunning as well as a well preserved and historic plantation. Two different tours at a good price.
