New Orleans, Louisiana aka NOLA

Garden District

Oak Alley Plantation

Sculpture Garden

Beignets at Café du Monde

Preservation Hall

Botanical Garden

Swamp tour on the Pearl River

Return by bus to New Orleans

Magazine Street

Palace Café

When I got to New Orleans, the city was hosting the annual Essence Festival, it was the week of Fourth of July and the temperatures were around 35 °C/95 °F. I stayed there for a full week and went on two worthwile tours: Oak Alley Plantation and a swamp tour on the Pearl River.

See

• Bourbon Street, Jackson Square, Mississippi River, French Market

• Garden District and Magazine Street

• Museum of Art and the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden

• Botanical Garden

Do

• Ride a historic streetcar

• Visit Oak Alley Plantation

• Go on a swamp tour

• Listen to live jazz at Preservation Hall or at Musical Legends Park

• Try Creole and Cajun cuisine; I loved Po’boy, beans & rice, pralines and beignets.

Eat

Breakfast/Brunch

• Majoria’s Commerce Restaurant

• Willa Jean

• Whole Foods

Lunch/Dinner

• Olde Nola Cookery

• Kingfish

• Palace Café

Cafés

• Café du Monde

• Sucré

• The Rabbit’s Foot