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Tours and Attractions
Tours
Cemeteries
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 gravesides:
Save Our Cemeteries
504.525.3377
www.saveourcemeteries.org/
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/
New Orleans Paddlewheel, Inc. (Creole Queen)
#1 Poydras StreetRiverwalk Market Place
504.529.4567, www.creolequeen.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:
Oak Alley Plantation
3645 Highway 18, Vacherie, Louisiana
225.265.2151, www.oakalleyplantation.com
Laura Plantation
2247 Highway 18, Vacherie, Louisiana
225.265.7690, www.lauraplantation.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/
Attractions
Aquarium of the Americas
#1 Canal Street (Canal at the river)
1.800.774.7394 http://www.auduboninstitute.org/visit/aquarium
Audubon Zoo
6500 Magazine Street
1.866.ITS.AZOO http://www.auduboninstitute.org/visit/zoo
Entergy Imax Theater
#1 Canal Street (Canal at the River)
1.800.774.7394 www.auduboninstitute.org/visit/imax
Global Wildlife Center
26389 Highway 40, Folsom, LA
985.796.3585 www.globalwildlife.com
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
http://www.jackson-square.com/
Longue Vue House and Gardens
#7 Bamboo Road
504.488.5488
http://www.longuevue.com/
Mardi Gras World
233 Newton Street
504.361.7821
http://www.mardigrasworld.com/
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