New Orleans Holiday Travel Video Guide
New Orleans 1 you will find the roots of jazz and a blossoming culture that has long been described as different from everything else in the US Founded in 1718, it is one of the oldest cities of the country and has an atmosphere rich with French sophistication mixture, African American Creole, German and Vietnamese Haitian Irish Caribbean while creating an energy that can be described as something more than the sum of its parts Although hit hard by Hurricane Katrina 2005, the city continues to rebound, and it remains the largest city in Louisiana and one of the most popular tourist destinations in the United States.
French Quarter The oldest, most famous and the most visited section of the city most tourists want to center their visit here that those exploring other parts of the city and you will find the city offers additional treats Many old-line restaurants are there, as well as music clubs, museums, antique shops, and pubs Many companies offer organized tours to pub crawl that can help save money, and have the advantage of new friends and fellow travelers to socialize with.
Central Business District What many cities call Downtown New Orleans but this term is often used to refer to another part of town downstream next to the French Quarter; this region has many attractions this area of town is the American industry named for settlers who migrated to New Orleans after the Louisiana More recently, the area is commonly known as the Central Business District is the financial district of the city and like many other large cities, has a mix of skyscrapers and high-rise hotels on the edge is the Superdome, the largest stadium in the form of fixed dome and one of the largest sports venues in the world of excellent restaurants and many museums National Museum D-Day, the Louisiana Museum of children, art Museum of South Ogden, and the Contemporary art Center and a neighborhood gallery located on Julia Street are also found here This area includes the warehouse district also known as the district name of art.
Downriver Marigny Bywater 7th, 8th and 9th High Wards Lower 9th of Ward neighborhoods Old downriver from the French Quarter, street French Marigny is the first quarter of the authentic music Marigny and nearby Bywater have a hip bohemian atmosphere Some begins to spread to behind city center 7th 8th and 9th, Upper Wards much of which is still poorly post-Katrina, but contains original attractions like St Roch cemetery the Lower 9th, infamous as one of the most affected by the Hurricane Katrina also has some unexpected historical sites.
University Uptown Uptown Audubon District Carrollton residential quarters of the 19th century located upstream of the CBD, famous for the beautiful historic architecture, including the tram Garden District The St. Charles Avenue through here Uptown sections contain some of the city's best restaurants Magazine Street hosts some 80 blocks of antique shops, art galleries, interior design studios, and clothing stores ranging from funky thrift shops top range of popular Audubon Park and Audubon Zoo, Tulane and Loyola Universities, and Riverbend section and Old Carrollton at the end of the tram line.
Middle Mid-City and Esplanade Ridge Tremé core central city of the town, with historic attractions and many great the most famous restaurants of the local population that the Mid-City visitors include City Park, New Orleans Museum of Art, the Botanical garden, and beautiful historic cemeteries; New Orleans Fair Grounds race track which hosts the Jazz Festival and Heritage New Orleans each spring is in the old Espalande Ridge Tremé is a historic Franco-African Creole neighborhood in the French Quarter is a Central City another mostly black historical district, the more troubled present.
Lakeside Lakeview and Lakeshore Gentilly East New Orleans north of the city around Lake Pontchartrain parts Most of the more recent times of the city in general unknown to visitors, but includes restaurants, including the popular group of restaurants along Harrison Avenue in Lakeview, historic forts, impressive Art Deco and other 20 the architecture of the century, and a handful of other attractions a series of beautiful parks bordering the lake, in the western districts of eastern New Orleans industrial Canal covers a large area, including the district of Little Vietnam historic Lakefront Airport and Fort Pike.
Algiers Part of New Orleans across the Mississippi River includes the historic district of Old Algiers Point; the ferry ride across the Mississippi only worth seeing.
Kenner Jefferson Parish includes the site of the New Orleans International Airport, and the largest suburban Metairie; many hotels and conventions are based here.
River St. Bernard Parish down in New Orleans, including the city of Chalmette where the Battle of New Orleans took place in 1815.
St Tammany Parish on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain; includes Slidell Covington Mandeville and Abita Springs.
Plaquemines Parish on both sides of the Mississippi south of the Gulf.
Destrehan Plantation in Destrehan 2 contains one of the best preserved of Southern antebellum homes.
LaPlace A fast growing town upstream from New Orleans.
New Orleans is known for a variety of attributes like its famous Creole food, abundant alcohol, the music of many styles, near swamps and plantations, the architecture of the 18th-19th century antiques, pride gay, trams, museums Nicknamed the Big Easy, New Orleans has long had the reputation of a city oriented adult However, the town also offers many attractions for families with children and people interested in culture and arts is a Roman Catholic majority city because of its European origins.
famous festivals like Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest Bring tourists by the millions, and both times of the year when you have to be sure to book well in advance to be sure of a room The city also hosts many small festivals and gatherings like the french quarter festival tomato festival Creole, Satchmo Summerfest, the Essence Festival organized by the magazine, Halloween parading and costume balls, St. Patrick's day parade and the day of St. Joseph in the southern Decadence, and many other city takes almost any occasion an excuse for a parade, a celebration, and live music and New Orleans most events often have a touch of Mardi Gras year as they say in New Orleans are planning to be a part, in one or the recovery of part down.
Jackson Square is the historical heart of the French Quarter.
In late 1600, the French trappers and traders began to settle in what is now New Orleans, along a Native American trade route between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain via Bayou St John In 1718 the town was officially founded in New Orleans by Jean Baptiste le Moyne de Bienville, governor of the French colony of Louisiana, intending to build a provincial capital in the beginning of the French city increased in the grid of what is now the french quarter Louisiana was transferred to the Spanish domination in the 1760s, but a large part of the population retained french language and culture After a brief return to french rule, Louisiana was purchased by the United States in 1803 at the beginning, the new American settlers built mainly their homes and stores upstream of the parts French oldest of the city, through a wide street channel name of a planned canal was never built Canal Street was the dividing line between the French and English sections; the median line of street has become a popular meeting place called neutral ground - neutral ground and became the common expression for the middle of a street, still in use in the dialect New Orleans today.
A British attempt to seize the city in 1815 was pushed downstream from the town of Chalmette by local forces led by Andrew Jackson, whose equestrian statue can be seen in the square that bears his name in the center of Old Town.
In early New Orleans was already a rich melting pot of peoples and cultures African Spanish French and Anglos were joined by immigrants from Ireland, Germany and the Caribbean While a center of the slave trade before the war secession, New Orleans was also the US's largest population of free people of color the city quickly grew as an important trading center on the mighty Mississippi River in the Civil war of the 1860s, New Orleans fell to the Union early in the battle without conflict in the city, sparing the city of rich historical architecture of destruction suffered by a large part of south America.
In the early 20th century, while largely overlooked the old French Quarter began to gain new appreciation between artists and bohemians for its architecture and atmosphere at the same time, a new musical style developed in the city; developed the music swept around the world under the name of jazz.
While far from the major battlefields of New Orleans is proud of its contribution to the Allied victory over fascism in World War II, particularly developing and landing craft construction such as Higgins boats that made rapid mass landing of troops on possible hostile beaches heritage This is why the National Museum of the American Second World war is in the city.
In August 2005 in New Orleans and the surrounding area was hit by Hurricane Katrina Much worse than the hurricane was the failure of the federal levees designed system; in what was called the worst civil engineering disaster in the U S history when some 80 of the flooded city.
New Orleans was not destroyed, but the flooding was a severe blow, perhaps the worst disaster to hit a US city since the great earthquake of San Francisco 99 years earlier Nearly 10 years later, many visitors may notice little or no sign that something bad happened to the inhabitants, however, in many regions of rebuilding the city is still an ongoing process of the french quarter and other parts the oldest of the city's most popular with visitors have been built on a high comparison field, and were less damaged and were quickly restored, however, everything is back to normal in the city; scenes of devastation are still visible in many neighborhoods More than two thirds of the pre-Katrina population is living back in the city of the city; most of them have a fierce love of their city and have faced many difficulties in their ongoing efforts to rebuild gradually.
utilities of the city - including the police - have struggled to return to their strength, and are facing a city where decades of stable neighborhoods were disrupted The city has generally experienced rising crime accordingly See Stay safe below.
While some visitors decide to limit their travel to the most untouched parts of the city or simply visit the worst affected areas as part of a tour disaster half a day, for other historical events of Katrina and its consequences are the object of their visit.
Volunteer projects such as the New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity 3, which built new houses has attracted volunteers doing good work organizations, such vigilant to encourage further investigation on flood protection issues and hurricanes around New Orleans, and visitors to the city are invited to visit the ravaged areas and help to keep alive the attention necessary to restore New Orleans to its original splendor.
A local joke is that New Orleans has really been four seasons, Hurricane, Christmas and Mardi Gras Summer is definitely the longest; about half of the year, around late April to early October, the days are generally warm, or rain, or hot and raining winters are generally short and sweet, but subject to occasional cold shots that can surprise visitors who mistakenly think that the city has one year tropical climate humidity can make cold waves penetrating feel pretty snow is so rare that the occasional light dusting of flakes will make most people stop what they are looking for; they'll enthusiastically show the phenomenon of local children too young to remember the last time visited the city snow If you happen to visit the city during a rare freezing event, be aware that most people do not know not how to drive on icy or snowy roads.
The hurricane season in the Atlantic, which includes the entire Gulf of Mexico is June 1 to November 30 The busiest month is September.
Between April and October the temperatures are more comfortable Although the heat and humidity can be intense in the summer, a visit can be rewarding even during this season to start the day early, and make your outdoor excursions morning Flora lush may display a wealth of colorful flowers in the afternoon, retired air conditioning visiting a museum, lunch in a cafe or restaurant, or take a nap at the hotel back outside when the sun is low after dark the night shift of flora is on duty; especially in older neighborhoods such as Esplanade Ridge, Carrollton, The Garden District, etc. with night jasmine flowers in abundance, the deliciously scented air can be almost intoxicating.
Despite what many visitors expect, population, food, music and traditions of New Orleans are not primarily Cajun Acadian and Cajun to Cajun, pronounced kay-Juhn people developed their rich culture to west of the city, in the part of Louisiana Acadiana While there are some good places for Cajun food and music in the city are some southwest famous branches of Louisiana Cajun places that opened places here include the Cajun food and culture are a recent import that has no roots in New Orleans Unfortunately, a number of the most tourism businesses in the city heavy parts have decided to take advantage of the sale visitors what they thought they wanted, slapping the term on Cajun dishes and products little to do with Acadiana.
The oldest aspects of culture New Orleans is Creole, which designate people who were already there before the city became part of the United States with Louisiana in 1803. French, Spanish and Africans are ethnic groups and primary culture in the old Creole culture, with the additional contribution of Native Americans and the early German immigrants who have become much more later in the 19th century.
From Louisiana, other major immigrant groups and influences the local cuisine and culture included mostly Italian South and Sicily, Irish, German, Caribbean and Central America Hondurans are traditionally the largest group Hispanic in the metropolitan area, but after Katrina, there is now an influx of Latinos, mostly from Central America and Mexico have decided to stay after helping in the construction boom in the wake of Katrina small populations Cubans, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans are also some located throughout the region in the late 20th century a large Vietnamese community was added to New Orleans gumbo They are found in greater concentrations in New Orleans and some parts of the suburbs Westbank Marrero, Harvey, Gretna.
Louis Armstrong International Airport MSY IATA, ICAO KMSY 5 is the largest and the main airport in the city, it located in the suburb of Kenner After a dip in the after Hurricane Katrina, the airport has since gone to rebound, hosting 10 million passengers in 2012. It is currently the sixth busiest airport in the south Louis Armstrong International serves 37 destinations in North America as well as international flights is one of four towns gave permission to fly to and from the country of Cuba additional flights are added continuously and the airport right now preparing one of its biggest expansion by building a new terminal vacation packages in Europe are available in the UK on several companies British airlines that offer charter cruise services nonstop to Crescent City.
Airlines with regular service to New Orleans.
American Airlines Charlotte, Chicago-O Hare, Miami, Dallas Ft Worth, Philadelphia, Washington-National.
Delta Atlanta, Detroit, Minnespolis St. Paul, New York-LaGuardia, New York-JFK.
Southwest Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Chicago Midway, Dallas Love, Denver, Fort Lauderdale, Houston Hobby, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Nashville, Oakland, Orlando, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Diego, St. Louis, Tampa, Washington-National.
Spirit Airlines Chicago-O'Hare, Dallas Ft Worth, Fort Lauderdale, Houston Bush.
United Chicago O'Hare, Denver, Newark, San Francisco, Washington Dulles.
To get into town a taxi 36 for one or two people, 14 per person for three or more is the fastest; that s fixed costs from the airport to any location in the French Quarter or service central district limousine is also available for business rates from 35, and the shuttle to the airport is 5 24 44 See the website back airport 6 for other options.
A cheap way to get to the city is the airport transit route Jefferson express E2-Airport 7, which is only 2 but watch The bus has no luggage and sometimes the driver won t let up that the central baggage Weekdays went, the bus runs down the airline US Highway 61 at Tulane at Loyola in New Orleans Central Business District; the trip takes 45 minutes from this intersection, you can take the Loyola-UPT Streetcar to the French Quarter or just walking to the river, deeper into the CBD and turn left, crossing the street and in the Channel french quarter weekend bus ends at the airline S Carrollton is far from the city center where you can walk 7 blocks northeast to the Canal St where you can take a tram.
The airport bus stop is on the second level of the airport outside door 7 near the Delta counter at the west end of the terminal, in the median look for the sign and bench; the stop is a good walk from the pick-up bags at the end, and you will probably ask an information desk to find it.
Many large hotels have airport shuttles Even if you are not staying at one of these hotels, shuttles can often be a value for those in town if their destination is near one hotels.
In April 2015, Uber was presented in Orleans Parish is an excellent and affordable way to get around town Be aware that if you can über in Orleans Parish Airport, you can not be picked up at the airport, unless you use a Black Uber SUV.
New Orleans Lakefront Airport IATA NEW 2 KNEW ICAO, FAA LID NEW is primarily a charter and private airport, but commercial flights are available to destinations in the Gulf South Region.
The main artery in and out of town is Interstate 10, which moves from east to west north and south main arteries are linked highways 49, 55 and 59.
Greyhound 8 and 9 Amtrak service, Union Terminal An intermodal passenger facility located at 1001 Loyola Avenue in the central business district is within walking distance of the Super Dome and Champions Square.
Three Amtrak routes pass through New Orleans City New Orleans, Crescent and Sunset Limited.
The new Loyola Avenue streetcar line connects the passenger terminal with Union Canal Street.
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