2-Night New Orleans Adventure by Bus
This program offers an unforgettable journey through the history, culture, music, and mystery of New Orleans.
Program Summary
Tour Number: 0325-196174
Explore the vibrant and storied culture of New Orleans through an immersive program that blends history, mystery, and celebration. Highlights include a visit to The National WWII Museum, a behind-the-scenes tour of Mardi Gras World, and an eerie evening on a guided Walking Ghost Tour. Participants will also experience the soulful heritage of the city at the Backstreet Cultural Museum, the New Orleans Jazz Museum, and on a scenic Swamp and Bayou Tour, with time to soak in the charm of the French Quarter.
Program Highlights & Inclusions
- Private Bus transportation throughout your tour
- Professional tour manager with your group throughout the tour
- Two nights Hotel accommodations in the New Orleans area
- Admission to The National WWII Museum
- Admission and tour of Mardi Gras World
- Admission to the Backstreet Cultural Museum
- Swamp and Bayou Tour
- Admission to the New Orleans Jazz Museum
- Free time in the French Quarter
- French Quarter Walking Tour
- Walking Ghost Tour
Daily Itinerary
You’ll board your bus to start your tour. When you arrive in New Orleans, you’ll meet your tour manager.
You’ll have free time in the French Quarter, also known as the Vieux Carre, the oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans. Although it is called the “French” Quarter, most of the present day buildings were built under Spanish rule and show Spanish colonial tastes. The district as a whole is a National Historic Landmark, and contains numerous individual historic buildings. It was affected relatively lightly by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, as compared to other areas of the city and the greater region.
After a lunch break, you will travel through three centuries of history, legends and romance as you take a walking tour through New Orleans’ French Quarter. You’ll see Bourbon Street, Royal Street, The St. Louis Cathedral, Jackson Square, The French Market and more.
After dinner, you’ll need to brace yourself for the New Orleans Haunted History Ghost Walking Tour which explores the grim and ghastly deeds of the old French Quarter.
You’ll arrive at your hotel and check in.
After breakfast, you’ll board your bus to continue your tour.
You will explore the lives of American men and women who took part in World War II through letters, recruitment posters, weapons, models, and film at the National World War II Museum.
After lunch, you will get a rare behind-the-scenes look at the magic of Mardi Gras when you take a tour of Mardi Gras World.
You will visit the Backstreet Cultural Museum, located in the historic Treme’ neighborhood near the French Quarter. The Museum holds the world’s most comprehensive collection related to New Orleans’ African American community-based masking and processional traditions, including Mardi Gras Indians, jazz funerals, social aid and it contains the most cohesive archive documenting these cultural traditions.
You will enjoy dinner and live jazz music aboard the Steamer Natchez.
You will return to your hotel on the bus.
After breakfast, you’ll check out of your hotel and board your bus for the day.
Nowhere is Louisiana’s wildlife more abundant than in the swamps and bayous of New Orleans. Take a boat ride through these swamps and bayous and be on the lookout for alligators, raccoons, snakes, turtles and native birds. Hear stories from your guide about local Cajun culture and the mysteries of the swamps and bayous.
After lunch, you’ll visit at Cafe Du Monde. The Original Cafe Du Monde Coffee Stand was established in 1862 in the New Orleans French Market. The Cafe is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It closes only on Christmas Day and on the day an occasional Hurricane passes too close to New Orleans. The Original Cafe Du Monde is a traditional coffee shop. Its menu consists of dark roasted Coffee and Chicory, Beignets, White and Chocolate Milk, and fresh squeezed Orange Juice. The coffee is served Black or Au Lait. Au Lait means that it is mixed half and half with hot milk. Beignets are square French -style doughnuts, lavishly covered with powdered sugar. In 1988 Iced Coffee was introduced to the cafe. Soft drinks also made their debut that year.
You’ll visit The New Orleans Jazz Museum which celebrates jazz in the city where it was born. Housed in the historic Old U.S. Mint, strategically located at the intersection of the French Quarter and the Frenchmen Street live music corridor, the New Orleans Jazz Museum is in the heart of the city’s vibrant music scene.
You’ll board your bus and begin the return trip home.
