Side Trips from New Orleans Features

Side Trips from New Orleans Features

• Top Reasons to Go
  

  Jam to Cajun and zydeco music. Ensembles of fiddles, accordions, and guitars produce eminently danceable folk music, with songs sung in a mélange... Read more

• Alligators Up Close: Swamp Tours
  

  The bayous, swamps, and rivers of south Louisiana's wetlands present a tantalizingly unfamiliar landscape to many visitors, and the best way... Read more

• Cajun and Zydeco Music
  

  It's 9 am on a typical Saturday morning in the Cajun prairie town of Mamou, and Fred's Lounge is already so full that people are spilling out... Read more

• Evangeline
  

  In all of Acadiana, St. Martinville is the spot where you can sense most vividly the tragic aspect of the Cajun story, whether in the tiny cemetery... Read more