3-Night New Orleans Adventure by Air
This program offers students a well-rounded exploration of New Orleans through its history, culture, art, nature, and vibrant local traditions.
Program Summary
Tour Number: 0725-201236
Discover the unique blend of history, culture, and natural beauty that defines New Orleans through this engaging and educational program. Highlights include visits to top attractions such as the National WWII Museum, the Audubon Aquarium and Zoo, Mardi Gras World, and the New Orleans Museum of Art. With immersive cultural experiences at the Voodoo Museum, Jazz Museum, and a scenic Swamp and Bayou Tour—plus time to explore the lively French Quarter—students will gain a deep appreciation for the city’s rich heritage.
Program Highlights & Inclusions
- Round trip flights to your destination
- Professional tour manager with your group throughout the tour
- Private Motor coach transportation throughout your tour
- Three nights Hotel accommodations in the New Orleans area
- Free time in the French Quarter
- French Quarter Walking Tour
- Admission and tour of Mardi Gras World
- Admission to the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas
- Admission to the Audubon Zoo
- Admission to The National WWII Museum
- Admission to the Voodoo Museum
- Admission to the New Orleans Jazz Museum
- Visit to the Riverwalk
- Swamp and Bayou Tour
- Admission to the New Orleans Museum of Art
Daily Itinerary
You’ll depart on your flight. when you arrive in New Orleans, you will meet your tour manager. Your bus will pick you up and you’ll continue your trip.
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.
Aou’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 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.
You’ll have dinner at Oceana Grill.
You’ll arrive at your hotel and check in.
After breakfast, you’ll board your bus and depart the hotel for the day.
You will get a rare behind-the-scenes look at the magic of Mardi Gras when you take a tour of Mardi Gras World.
After lunch, you’ll visit the Audubon Aquarium which will transport you to an underwater world from the Caribbean and Amazon Rainforest to the Mississippi River and the Gulf. With more than 3,600 animals from more than 250 species, including endangered and rare species, such as African penguins and white alligators, the Aquarium offers you an experience you’ll never forget.
You’ll visit the Audubon Zoo which is a New Orleans landmark and a living museum filled with some of the rarest and most beautiful creatures of nature. There have been animals at this site since the 1884 World Exposition in Audubon Park. Today, Audubon Zoo is 58 acres of animals in their natural habitats.
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 board your bus and depart the hotel for the day.
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 discover the Historic Voodoo Museum. The New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum is one of the most unique, and interesting, small museums in the country. Taking all the mysteries, the secrets, the history and folklore of rituals, zombies, of gris-gris, of Voodoo Queens and all that jazz, and putting it all in one place in the heart of the New Orleans French Quarter.
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 have free time at the Riverwalk.
After dinner, you will return to your hotel on the bus.
After breakfast, you’ll check out of your hotel room 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 the New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans’ oldest fine arts institution. Opened on December 16, 1911 with only 9 works of art, the museum now hosts an impressive permanent collection of almost 40,000 objects. The collection, noted for its extraordinary strengths in French and American art, photography, glass, and African and Japanese works, continues to expand and grow, making NOMA one of the top art museums in the south.
You’ll head to the airport for your return trip home.
