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Small-Group Airboat and Plantations Tour with Gourmet Lunch from New Orleans
Experience Cajun Country: Airboat and Plantations Full-Day Tour from New Orleans
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Experience Cajun Country: Airboat and Plantations Full-Day Tour from New Orleans

Airboat and Plantations Tour with Gourmet Lunch from New Orleans

By Tours by Isabelle
9.4 out of 10
Free cancellation available
Price is RM 1,134 per adult
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 9h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
Overview

A grand mélange presentation of Cajun and Creole cultures including a high-speed airboat tour of the cypress swamps. Visit Laura Plantation, built in 1804, and learn about Laura's personal family saga. Enjoy a gourmet, unlimited buffet lunch in the elegant dining room of Houmas House Plantation, followed by a guided tour of this grand mansion. The small-group atmosphere ensures a more personal experience.

Activity location

  • Laura: Louisiana's Creole Heritage Site
    • 2247 Highway 18,
    • 70090-5409, Vacherie, Louisiana, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Laura: Louisiana's Creole Heritage Site
    • 2247 Highway 18,
    • 70090-5409, Vacherie, Louisiana, United States

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Airboat + Plantations
  • Activity duration is 9 hours9h9h
  • English

Airboat + Plantation Tour: Grand Tour of Cajun Country plus thrilling, 2-hour small airboat adventure through Louisiana bayous
Pickup included

Language options: English
Starting time: 8:00
Price details
RM 1,133.73 x 1 AdultRM 1,133.73

Total
Price is RM 1,133.73
Until Sat, 30 Nov

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedTransport by 14-passenger air-conditioned van with live narration
  • What's includedWhat's includedHotel pickup with exact pickup time provided
  • What's includedWhat's includedFast and fun airboat tour
  • What's includedWhat's includedTour of Houmas House and Laura Plantation
  • What's includedWhat's includedGourmet, unlimited buffet lunch at Houmas House
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedGratuities

Know before you book

  • Service animals allowed
  • Specialized infant seats are available
  • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Service animals are permitted. Please advise at time of booking to arrange accommodations
  • Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking in the special requirements field
  • Tour operates in all weather conditions. Umbrellas and rain ponchos are available for use if guests forget their own. If a tour cannot operate due to inclement weather you will be notified
  • Due to the nature of the airboat, children under the age of 5, pregnant women, people with back or neck issues or recent surgeries are not allowed to participate in the airboat portion of the tour.

Activity itinerary

Luling (Pass by)
You'll start your day driving out to Cajun Country, where you'll go through wild cypress swamps, over the Mississippi River on an impressive suspended bridge, and along vast sugarcane fields, as the guide tells a unique story of the odyssey of the Cajun people. Next take a thrilling high-speed airboat ride as you comfortably glide over marshes and into deep, secluded bayous. Your Cajun guide, also an alligator hunter and fur trapper, will share his knowledge of the swamp including reptile habits, healing plants, and exotic birds. After your ride, explore his picturesque swamp zoo on Bayou Boeuf.
Laura: Louisiana's Creole Heritage Site
  • 1h 30m
  • Admission ticket included
Discover Laura, an 1804 Creole Plantation and learn about Laura's personal family saga. See how the West-African enslaved's work influenced all segments of the Creole culture, best seen today in cuisine, music, family-centered traditions, architecture and life-style. At Laura's Slavery Museum Exhibit, hear personal stories of individual men, women and children who lived there, illustrating how the lives of the enslaved, both Créole and American, were intertwined with those of their owners.
Houmas House and Gardens
  • 3h
  • Admission ticket included
After a short drive from Laura Plantation, you'll settle into a seated lunch in Houmas House' elegant dining room. After lunch, walk through the 250 year history of this estate and how a succession of owners and the Mississippi River grew this modest manor house into the estate it is today. A collection of art, furniture, and antique artifacts help tell the story of plantation life. 38 acres of gardens surround the mansion.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESLaura: Louisiana's Creole Heritage Site
    • 2247 Highway 18,
    • 70090-5409, Vacherie, Louisiana, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLELaura: Louisiana's Creole Heritage Site
    • 2247 Highway 18,
    • 70090-5409, Vacherie, Louisiana, United States

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