Fun Vacation Ideas

For many people, Louisiana means New Orleans and New Orleans is Louisiana. The largest city of the state, New Orleans is the most famous and the most heterogeneous. Almost all races and nationalities can be found in New Orleans, including Irish, German, French, Italian, African-Americans, Creoles and their various mixtures. It is one reason tourists and visitors frequent the city: they can always find people from their own country or those who speak their language. No wonder New Orleans has been long-named as the ‘Queen City of the South”.

Must-see Places in New Orleans

New Orleans also has many interesting places that can delight your wanderlust and sense of discovery. There is, for example, the Musee Conti Wax Museum. Though probably not as famous as that of Madame Tussaud’s, the museum displays the history of the city via life-size wax figures and tableaux, each of the 154 sets telling its own tale. Entertainment, information and history in a single location is something else as a concept.

And of course, there are historically famous plantation mansions in New Orleans of the ante-bellum era. Each expresses the time’s culture embodied in the architecture, lay-out, materials and ambience, so it can be worthwhile to visit them to get a feel of New Orleans history. Take the Gray Line to tour the ‘river road’ to the Oak Alley Plantation, the most famous.

New Orleans activities

To know New Orleans best, tour the city via the Royal Carriages so you can more easily imagine how it looked like two or three centuries before. The horse-drawn carriages will take you in a sedate clip-clopping pace to the city’s famous landmarks, especially Jackson Square. Another way is the Steamboat Natchez Riverboat Cruise, which follows the Mississippi River as in the olden times. Good music, fine dining, and spectacular nature views along the way will not fail to give you a very enjoyable time in New Orleans.

Or, join the Cookin’ Cajun Cooking School. Top professional chefs —some New Orleans’ best— will teach you how to cook, enjoy and appreciate the Creole and Cajun cuisines, for a new kind of experience. You may also tour the well-known places of hauntings and ghost manifestations with the Hauntings and Ghost Tour, each site with stories that can be generations-old. Some venues are simply spooky to be scary.

Some festivals of New Orleans

But perhaps the best reason to visit New Orleans is the annual Mardi Gras festival that originated from Medieval Europe. Just like its Rio de Janeiro counterpart, the ‘Fat Tuesday’ festivity is regularly held from 1781before the Lenten Season starts, and comes complete with parades, brass bands, floats, shows, colorful costumes and the never-ending parties afterwards.

Then there is the Independence Day Go 4th on the River Festival, when people crowd the riverside for music, entertainment, and others, including a spectacular fireworks display capping the event. The French Quarter Festival also showcases about 150 musical performances over a 3-day weekend, largely with jazz and other popular music genres.

So if you want to visit the South, list New Orleans number one in the places to visit. You won’t go wrong.

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