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Attractions in New Orleans
Steamboat Natchez Riverboat Cruise
This is a great way to enjoy 3 attractions-in-one ... New Orleans food and music during a cruise down the Mississippi. Since this is a real steamboat, you'll hear the beautiful music of its calliope (a musical instrument powered by steam that is atop the steamboat) as you stroll through the French Quarter -- just follow the sounds to the river! Choose from a daytime cruise, or a dinner/jazz cruise featuring the Dukes of Dixieland.
Musée Conti Wax Museum
It's the best-kept secret in New Orleans. The Musée Conti Historical Wax Museum is Fun, Historical, Educational AND Entertaining... a must see in New Orleans! Founded in 1963, "The WAX" tells the fascinating story of New Orleans from her founding to the present day. Experience more than 300 years of History, Legend and Scandal with the 154 life-size figures displayed in historically accurate settings.
National World War II Museum
The National D-Day Museum's exhibits encompass the June 6, 1944 invasion of Normandy, the Home Front during WWII, and the D-Day Invasions in the Pacific. Exhibit galleries incorporate text panels, artifacts, and Personal Account stations in which visitors may listen to the stories of WWII veterans and others who supported the war effort.
Harrah's Casino
In the heart of the world's most captivating and exhilarating city, you'll find the most thrilling gaming entertainment, 24/7. Voted "Best Casino" by the readers of "Casino Player", Harrah's is located just steps away from the French Quarter at the foot of Canal Street and the Mississippi River. This "world-class" casino offers over 2000 of the newest slots and over a hundred action-packed table games along with a 24 hour buffet, Besh Steakhouse and many other food options. Self-parking garage is free with 30 minutes of "tracked" play.
New Orleans School of Cooking
Welcome to the Fun, Food & Folklore of The New Orleans School of Cooking! Our entertaining classes and the Louisiana General Store are located in a renovated molasses warehouse built in the early 1800s in the heart of the French Quarter.
Royal Carriages
Take a carriage ride while you're in New Orleans ... and enjoy a tour of the French Quarter (garden district tours available, too!) Quaint mule-drawn carriages take you past many landmarks of New Orleans, including Bourbon Street, the mighty Mississippi, and Jackson Square.
Abita Brewing & Brew Pub
Founded in 1986 across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans, Abita is the southeast's oldest regional craft brewery. Tours are available and beer (brewed from area spring water once believed to have healing powers) and root beer are poured at its restaurant overlooking Piney Woods hiking trail. Brews on tap only at the brew pub include Abita Blue (wheat beer with a hint of blueberry); Chocolate Stout (heavy on chocolate malt, which is barley roasted much like a cocoa bean) and Cask Condition Brown Ale (non-filtered, self-carbonated, hand-pumped English style).
Audubon Zoological Gardens
Uptown on 400 acres with more than 4,000 live oaks, this retreat with lagoons, horseback riding, and bike paths is accessible by riverboat and streetcar. Apart from trees and moss, the swamp tour provides eerie glimpses of a white alligator and other creatures, and the zoo boasts rare white tigers, along with 2,000 other exotic and indigenous animals.
Beauregard-Keyes House
A New Orleans auctioneer built this house with twin staircases and Doric columns in 1826, and novelist Frances Parkinson Keyes lived here from 1944 until 1970.
Cafe du Monde
Visitors on tight budgets can indulge in high-calorie splurges of historic proportions at Cafe du Monde, with its original coffee stand established in 1862. The riverside Cafe is open 24 hours, closing only on Christmas and when hurricanes threaten. Starring on the menu are beignets (puffy, square French-style doughnuts liberally sprinkled with powdered sugar) and piping hot dark roasted coffee with chicory (this root of the endive plant offsets bitterness and hints of a slight chocolate flavor), served black or au lait, which means mixed half and half with hot milk.
Confederate Museum
Louisiana's oldest museum houses the nation's second largest Confederate collection. Apart from medical instruments to make visitors cringe, Civil War memorabilia on exhibit includes flags, uniforms, and weapons, along with personal effects of President Jefferson Davis, and Generals Beauregard, Lee, Bragg and other southern leaders.
Contemporary Arts Center
Located in a 1905 warehouse, the Contemporary Arts Center combines historical architecture with contemporary works in elegant galleries, along with a cyber café, and gift shop.
Cooking Schools
Exquisite fare served even at the most humble of eateries has established New Orleans as a world-class treasure trove of dining opportunity, so it seems only fitting that the Crescent City also yields excellent cooking class opportunities. A sampling includes the New Orleans Cooking Experience, (504) 522-4955; Mardi Gras School of Cooking & Catering, (504) 362-5225; Gumbo Creole/Cajun School of Cooking, (504) 525-3354; Riverwalk Marketplace, (504) 522-1555; Culinary Institute of New Orleans Chef's Table, (504) 525-2433; New Orleans School of Cooking, (504) 525-2665; Creole Delicacies Gourmet Shop & Cookin' Cajun Cooking School, (504) 586-8832.
Cruise Adventures
An expanding line-up of cruise vacations sailing under brands such as Carnival, Royal Caribbean, departs from the Crescent City on adventures from three to 11 days to the Bahamas, Caribbean, and Mexico. Consult MetroGuide.com's CruiseGuide for possibilities.
Faubourg Treme
America's oldest black neighborhood, Faubourg Treme (often shortened to Treme), comes from a French term that means "suburb," and is named for Claude Treme, a hatmaker and real estate developer migrating to New Orleans in 1783 from Burgundy, France. For people of color to own real property during an era when slavery prevailed in America occurred only in New Orleans with any consistency.
Between North Rampart and North Broad, and from Canal Street to St. Bernard Avenue.
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