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All Day Plantation and Slave Cabin Day Tour

Duration: Approximately 9 Hours

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	Come down the path less traveled, visit Destrehan Plantation, Evergreen Plantation and Laura Plantation, as well as tour the slave cabins at Laura and witness the village of 22 original slave cabins under a 250 year old alley of oaks at Evergreen Plantation. Time for a Cajun lunch en route. Narrated scenic drive out of the city and along the shores of Lake Pontchartrain to visit 3 Plantations on both banks of the Old River Road: our Driver-Guide prepares you for a pilgrimage back in time to the Antebellum South. Guided tour of DESTREHAN PLANTATION where guides in period costumes will bring to life the stories of generations who lived on and worked this land - both owners and slaves.They will share with you every detail of this mansion's history since 1787. Free time to walk around under a spectacular canopy of live oaks around the mansion and the slave quarters. Crossing the Mississippi River on a high suspended bridge, then a short ride upriver through sugar cane fields brings you to EVERGREEN PLANTATION: the most intact plantation complex in the entire South with an astonishing 37 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places. The personalized guided tour include "The Big House" but also emphasizes the plantation's dependence on slave labor. as you tour this living history book, you will stroll down an alley of 250-year-old giant moss-draped live oaks shading 22 remarkably preserved original slave cabins in their original, double row configuration. Hear the stories highlighting two and a half centuries of family ownership. You will learn about the architectural significance of Evergreen Plantation's many buildings, and how it is still a privately owned and operating sugar cane plantation today. Stop for lunch at a Seafood Cajun Restaurant on the River Road. (Lunch cost not included) At LAURA , the Creole PLANTATION , the guided tour transports you with dramatic detail into the charmed yet tragic lives of four generations of Crole owners and their slaves. Bolstered by 5,000 pages of documents from the French National Archives and from Laura's own Memories, the Creole Family Saga tour focuses on centuries of human habitation that took place on this site. On this award-winning guided tour, professional interpreters, within 70 minutes, will expose you to compelling, real-life accounts of generations of owners, women, slaves and children who called this typical Creole sugarcane farm their home.

	Includes: Entrance fees to 3 plantations, guided tour in air-conditioned van
	Excludes: Lunch, driver gratuity

	Operates: Available Daily at 8:30am

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