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Tours
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 gravesites: 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 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 back to top
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
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