8 Day
Itinerary
DAY
1
- Fly to Baton
Rouge
- Embassy Suites Hotel
- Get Acquainted
Cocktail Party
We'll fly to the capital of Louisiana,
today, Baton Rouge. We'll all get together this evening at the
hotel's cocktail party (for all arrivals before
6:00pm).
DAY
2
- Breakfast,
Dinner
- Baton Rouge City
Tour
- Tour to Cajun Country
- Cocktail
Party
We will tour Baton Rouge, this morning,
and view some of the city's highlights, including the new and old
Capitol Buildings, the new and old Governor's Mansions, the LSU
Campus and the city center.
Next, its on to Lafayette and St.
Martinville in the heart of Cajun Country. In St. Martinville, we'll
view the Evangiline Statue and the Evangiline Oak, which marks the
spot where the legendary heroine, of the poem, waited for her lover,
Gabriel.
DAY
3
- Breakfast,
Dinner
- Tour
to Natchez
- City
Tour of Natchez including an Antebellum Home
- Cocktail
Party
Today, we'll travel north through St.
Francisville to Natchez, Mississippi. There's no more charming a
town in all the South. Her broad, tree-lined boulevards are graced
with more than 40 antebellum mansions.
We will, also, sightsee a portion of the
beautiful Natchez Trace Parkway. We'll relive what life was like
along the natural trail for the early explorers and Native
Americans.
DAY
4
- Breakfast
- Tour to New
Orleans
- Embassy Suites
Hotel
- Cocktail Party
- Jazz Dinner
Cruise on the Mississippi River
We'll follow the Great River Road, this
morning, to New Orleans and Mardi Gras. You'll marvel at the many
plantations, working farms, and shipping activity along the levees
and bayous.
Tonight, we're off to a great Jazz
Dinner Cruise on the Mississippi River. It doesn't get much better
than this!
DAY
5
- Breakfast,
Dinner
- Fat
Tuesday Mardi Gras Parades
- Cocktail
Party
We have reserved seats for you, today,
along the route of the biggest Mardi Gras Parade of all! Everything
has led up to this day, Fat Tuesday. You have never seen anything
like it. How many beads, trinkets, and other price less treasures
can you catch to bring home? It's all great fun and you'll never
forget it !!!
DAY
6
- Breakfast,
Dinner
- City Tour
- Tour along Gulf
Coast
- Isle of Capri
Hotel & Casino
We will tour the "Cresent City" today.
You'll witness the old French, Spanish and Creole sides of the city.
A bit of French and Spanish splendor preserved for you. You will
hear about the old French Quarter, old Market places, wharves,
squares, dueling places, French and Spanish homes, homes of
millionaires, parks, gardens, giant, moss hung trees and flowers.
You'll see the Jax Brewery, Jackson Square, the Superdome, St.
Charles Street, Lake Pontchartrain, one of the many famous
cemeteries, City Park, the river front, Canal Street, plus much,
much more!
Later, we'll venture east along the
coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Biloxi is home to a
shrimp-fishing fleet and has become the Las Vegas of the
South.
DAY
7
- Breakfast,
Dinner
- Tour to Mobile
& the Bellingrath Gardens
We'll tour to Mobile, Alabama, this
morning. This lovely city, with its Live Oaks, restored mansions and
World War II/Korean War era military park, is a delight to
visit.
Just south of Mobile is the Bellingrath
gardens--60 acres of flowers--every color of the rainbow, a fantasy
of color! We'll, also, tour the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Bellingrath, with its opulent furnishings and porcelain collection.
This is a style that you could become accustomed
too!!
Maybe tonight will be your night to win
back the cost of your trip in the hotel's casino? We sure hope
so!
DAY
8
We'll return home today filled with
great memories of the Ante-Bellum South, Cajun Country, the Gulf
Coast, and of course, Mardi Gras!!!
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