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Exploring Beyond New Orleans

An excursion to the bayous and small towns a few hours away
from New Orleans will show visitors just how different the city
is from its Louisiana surroundings. Upriver, the Cajun heritage
is evident in the architectural styles, the food, and even the
language, since French is spoken almost everywhere. Only a
few hours’ drive from New Orleans, it is possible to visit more
than a dozen Creole and American plantations along the
Mississippi River and to get a taste of life as it used to be. The
city of Baton Rouge, the state capital, makes an interesting
modern counterpoint.
Vermilionville
Key This restored 19th-century
Cajun-Creole settlement
Interstate highway is peopled by costumed
State highway staff. Traditional ways of
life are enacted.
Major road
Main railway Clinton Jackson
Minor railway UPPER MISSISSIPPI
Alexandria PLANTATIONS
St Francisville
Ville Platte New Roads Mississippi Zachary Amite Tangipah o a
Bayou Nezpi que Mamou Port Barre Baker

Beaumont OPELOUSAS BATON ROUGE Livingston Hammond
Basile EUNICE L O U I S I A N A Denham Springs Covington
Church Ponchatoula
Point Sunset Springfield Hattiesburg
Mandeville
Plaquemine
Lake Mobile
Breaux Bridge Gonzales Maurepas Slidell
LAFAYETTE
Atchafalaya
White Castle Lake Pontchartrain
Broussard ST MARTINVILLE LOWER MISSISSIPPI
Donaldsonville PLANTATIONS Laplace
Lutcher
NEW IBERIA & Mississippi
Abbeville AVERY ISLAND Metairie
Hahnville Kenner New Orleans
Six Napoleonville Lac des Luling Gretna
Mile Lake Allemands
Jeanerette Baldwin
The Acadian Village, Lafayette Lake Verret
This is a fully reassembled Cajun bayou
community, with houses boasting traditional Thibodaux
Cajun furnishings.

Getting Around
All of the sights can be reached easily by
road from New Orleans. Interstate 10 (I-10)
connects the city directly to Baton Rouge.
Some exits from route I-10 also lead to the
River Road Plantations and to Cajun Country.
From New Orleans, several guided tours
to the bayous are available (see pp216–17), Cajun Music Hall of Fame, Eunice
which offer a convenient way to explore A country store dating from the 1930s now houses
life on the bayous. a museum of local music.

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