Cajun Tour
March 6-9, 2010
$530 per person/dbl occp
Includes roundtrip transportation, luggage handling, admissions to listed attractions and accommodations.
Day One
You will board your spacious, video equipped motorcoach and relax on your way to Lafayette. You will have time to enjoy lunch before beginning your tour of Lafayette including the Acadian Village, an authentic recreation of an Acadian settlement in South Louisiana during the 19th Century and the Jean Lafitte Park and Preserve, which houses exhibits pertaining to the Cajun culture as well as videos on the Cajun migration and the Atchafalaya basin. You will end your tour with dinner at one of Lafayette’s famous restaurants.
Day Two
Enjoy a Continental breakfast at your hotel before heading to Avery Island and a tour of the McIlhenny Tabasco plant and the Jungle Gardens and Bird Sanctuary. Next you will board your coach for a short ride to New Iberia where you will enjoy lunch before touring the National Historic Site: Shadows-on-the-Teche. This lovely mansion has everything a Southern Plantation should have: live oaks dripping with Spanish moss, old trunks filled with a collection of 17,000 family letters, photographs, etc. that document four generations of one family, big white pillars and beautiful furnishings. Following your visit to the Shadows, you will drive to St. Martinsville to tour the Longfellow-Evangeline State Commemorative Area, 157 acres of moss-laden oak trees and an Acadian plantation house. You will also see the Evangeline Oak that marks the spot where Evangeline waited for her lover Gabriel and relax as you ride across the Atchafalaya River Bridge headed to Baton Rouge.
Day Three
After your Continental breakfast at your hotel, you will begin your tour of Baton Rouge, including the USS Kidd and Nautical Center, the Old Capitol and LSU’s Rural Life Museum and Windrush Gardens. The USS Kidd is a meticulously restored Fletcher class destroyer that was awarded twelve battle stars in the Pacific during World War II and the Korean Conflict. The Rural Life Museum is located on 450 acres and provides insight into the largely forgotten lifestyles and cultures of pre-industrial Louisiana. It is home to an extensive collection of tools, household utensils, furniture, vehicles, and farming implements.
Day Four
Enjoy breakfast at your hotel before heading to Magnolia Mound Plantation, a 1790’s Creole planned house with slave cabin and overseer’s house and pigeonnier. You will have a private tour of the home and grounds and then picnic at the pavilion before starting the trip home. At Henderson, LA, you will stop for a boat tour of the Atchafalaya basin where you will get a close look at some of the wildlife and people who live and work in this area. Travel home to Houston, TX.
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