New Orleans

The beautiful city cuddle in the curve of the Mississippi River, known for its cuisine, music and culture, is the metropolis New Orleans’ This vibrant city summons many a visitors every year’ Its more than a few attractions are cherished by tons of people around the world’

Familiarity with the place

New Orleans is an old city with a profound sense of art and architecture, culture and people’ Some historic buildings like the Casa de la Moneda U’S’ Construction and the Louisiana History Museum have always accepted attention of visitors’

The French Quarter is a highlight in the area of New Orleans’ The neighborhood is talking about the marvelous European architecture, history, legends and others’ The Bourbon St’ bars every time a bar or club for adult entertainment’ Once you leave the French Quarter, a horde of hotels and restaurants welcome you’ The IMAX theater, Riverwalk shops and Harrah’s casino are particularly very famous here’

Storyland in City Park in New Orleans is considered a wonderful park’ The Six Flags amusement park, the Audubon Park Zoological Gardens that have more than a thousand animals are amongst the magnets of New Orleans’

The Jackson Square area of New Orleans is full of artists, musicians, mimes and fortune tellers, needs no introduction’ People around the world, from this place for your holidays in New Orleans’ The French Quarter is full of malls and shops’ Brilliant jewelry exclusive souvenir, everything is easily accessible’ There are also antique shops for those with a taste for antiques’ French Market in New Orleans is known for negotiation’ The market is mainly dedicated to farmers, as well as fleas’

Once you are tired of running to the store, enjoy a wonderful coffee at Cafe du Monde’ The coffee is considered the home of beignet and chicory coffee’
The “shotgun” houses in New Orleans are for the exclusive and admired the architecture’ The rooms in these houses are lined up one behind the other so that a single shot from outside the front door of the back door without touching anything’ D-Day Museum in New Orleans featuring the history of World War II, has its own glory and charm’

There are different tours to explore in most of New Orleans’ Thses tours are quite informative and adventurous’ For example, in a swamp tour you know the concept behind the above ground cemeteries in the city’ They also have the opportunity to feed the alligators, see the great homes and gardens in the Garden District and many things’

A ghost tour, relished especially by the children to go to the haunted St’ Philip Street’ While in a Southern Comfort Cocktail Tour you can enjoy restaurants, bars and hotels in the city and the fables attached to them’ Honey Island Swamp tour is specifically designed for children to enjoy this nature reserve and mysterious as houses Gris-Gris’

The tire of distinguished New Orleans are incomplete without the festivals celebrated here’ The main festival of the year is the Mardi Gras in February’ It is followed by the crawfish festival in March, the Jazz and Heritage Festival French Quarter Festival in April or May’ July visitors can enjoy the fireworks that happen to be on 4 July, Satchmo festival in August as a result of which are the festivals for tomatoes, catfish, plants etc’ in September’ Finally, it is the celebration of Christmas clothes around the world? S concentration and thought’ Almost all festivals it is filled, at least with fireworks and parades’

New Orleans won a great name in sports’ The city is home to many sports concerts all year round’ These festivals make New Orleans a destination for the whole world must be the year’

The last morning of my trip to New Orleans, I sat in the lobby of the Hotel Provincial in the French Quarter and I heard Margie mark in his life since our last conversation’ Is that earlier in the conversation, in October 2006, and recognizing the importance of visitors to New Orleans, which had triggered the decision not to cancel my plans for 2006′

Margie is the sales manager of the Hotel Provincial’ He married in New Orleans until 48 hours before hurricane Katrina struck’ Margie returned to New Orleans, three weeks later to find her home flooded, unopened wedding presents floating around his mother and l? House in another part of the city completely destroyed’

Six months later, Margie is doing well, but when we talk about personal losses, looks much better outside of the times and memories intact’ This is one of? Opportunity? some with a married man who is handy with a hammer’ Since the hurricane, has put her husband on 16 hours a day working at home and the homes of friends’ Nothing is finished, but most of the major repair work began’

Margie? S childhood home, where his mother had lived for over 50 years, however, is beyond saving’ Water shoot home from the foundation and contents have rotted in place’ Margie? Mother, who suffered a stroke before the hurricane, was not returned home, but at her request in the home’

? I have not had the heart to tell the truth? Margie said’ I think that would really kill her to know that everything I had, all your photos, all gone’ His health prevented him from returning to their home, and honestly, I feel like a blessing in disguise’

I saw with my own eyes the devastation Margie describes as a young man who had Katrina Tour’ This tour is operated locally concentrated in the areas of New Orleans was devastated by the hurricane and is the subject of controversy since it began operating in December 2005′ Some believe that it is not in the city? Interest to highlight the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, while others believe that the visit is a necessary reminder of the recovery progress in New Orleans are still struggling with’

To be honest, what I saw reminded me of a war zone’ While the large piles of rubble were cleared more often shattered boats remained close to the many abandoned houses and streets within the property, are rotting on their foundations’ Of course, these areas were five miles from downtown and French Quarter’

In the area of the French Quarter and the nearby convention center, there is little evidence that anything that is abnormal for the first time travelers to New Orleans? The four women who were with me have been’ For my part, I could see subtle changes, in my view, both good and bad for the city’

As the French area depends largely on tourists, some companies have gone bankrupt since Katrina, while other sites (like the Café du Mound) consolidated three sites into one’ But new life has begun to fill the void now’ New companies have stepped in stores evacuated the place and the new restaurants have emerged’ What will happen to the French Quarter will be a kind of metamorphosis, where the old and tired of being revived, “At a cost’ Eating less is more’ Empty stores are ripe for some of the canals of New Orleans because of the loss of some of its unique character’

I kept these thoughts to me as I have proved adventurous four women in a city that I have come to love its unique atmosphere of fun and good food’ Although not everything was run on pre-Katrina times, we were still able to enjoy the journey promised Monday’ Two of the highlights of a trip in the passage through the French Quarter and a trip across the Mississippi River to Mardi Gras World’ We had dinner at some of my favorite restaurants? Restaurants that have been difficult to obtain pre-Katrina’

Will I be back in New Orleans in the future? Absolutely’ Despite the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina, with its long history, ethics, multiculturalism, music and food is separated from New Orleans at the height of its bill as one of? America? S The most interesting cities’