New Orleans: Single Plantation and Pontoon Swamp Day Trip

New Orleans: Single Plantation and Pontoon Swamp Day Trip

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Start the day with one of three plantations, Laura, Oak Alley, or Whitney Plantation. Then enjoy a swamp tour, the captains navigate their way through the back swamp as you learn about the Wetlands.

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Highlights

Explore 1 of 3 plantations and visit their museum exhibits and beautifully preserved structures
Take an educational step back in time and learn about the lives of those who lived, worked, and died on the plantations
Take a Louisiana swamp tour and learn about the lives of American alligators

Description

Take a guided narrative tour down to Plantation Country in a 14-passenger bus and explore Laura, Oak Alley, or Whitney Plantation. Enjoy a convenient pickup between 8:00 and 8:30 AM from downtown hotels and head out for a 90-minute tour of the plantation of your choice. At the Laura Plantation, awarded the title of top travel attraction in Louisiana, you’ll visit the Big House, the French Garden, the Kitchen Garden, the Banana Grove, and the original 1840s slave cabins. Take time to browse through local arts, crafts, and souvenirs in the historic Laura Plantation gift shop. Don’t forget to visit the new museum exhibit about the inhabitants’ daily lives on the sugar plantation. Oak Alley Plantation includes visits to the gracious interiors of the Big House as well as to the Oak Alley exhibit, that shares the stories of those who were enslaved on this sugar plantation from approximately 1835 to the end of the Civil War. Learn about health care, punishment, and life after Emancipation, as well as sugar’s impact on the people of Oak Valley. Finally, visit one of the few remaining 1890s-era forges of its type in Louisiana. Whitney Plantation is the site of the last surviving example of a true French Creole Barn, what is believed to be the oldest detached kitchen in Louisiana, and an excellently-preserved Creole cottage. Through restored buildings, museum exhibits, memorial artwork, and thousands of first-person slave narratives, Whitney Plantation gives a voice and respect to the slaves who lived, worked, and died here. Finish your day with a Louisiana swamp tour. The Cajun Captains will navigate their way through the back swamp. Learn about Louisiana Wetlands, the inhabitants of the swamp, and the history of the Louisiana Bayou and swamp exploration days.

Includes

Hotel pickup and drop-off Admission tickets

Important Information

• Whitney Plantation is closed on Tuesdays. • Eating and drinking is not permitted on the bus (except water). * Laura Creole Plantation and Oak Alley Antebellum Plantation is only offered in English. * Whitney Museum Plantation is a self-guided audio tour and offered in Mult-English.