This New Orleans travel blog will help you plan a trip down south for 3 days. Read about all the cultural things to do in NOLA, restaurants with live jazz music at French Quarter, beignets and chicory coffee, the pub crawls at Bourbon Street, local oyster bars. I visited New Orleans in November. This three day New Orleans Itinerary is a your perfect companion to make the most of the Crescent City!
We visited New Orleans as a part of a long road trip in the south during the Thanksgiving holidays. We reached Atlanta one night, started at the wee hours in the morning for New Orleans, drove for 8 hours along the I 65 South racing the highways of Georgia and Alabama, stopping at a town named Mobile to gorge on some gorgeous crawfish Gumbo and reach New Orleans very late in the evening!
The ghosts of yesteryears haunts streets of New Orleans. The streets that are filled with the aroma of gator pops, blurred nights making memories filled with daiquiri mis adventures, punctuated by ornate window panes that make you question if this is a forgotten alleyway of Paris. Swamps of Mississippi river idle away not very far carrying the scars of seasonal tornados that rock the Louisiana coast line. New Orleans is demure like the French but in an Americanesque way!
I come from New York, NY. Very few cities in the world have impressed me with food scene. NOLA made a space there at ease. The supple marriage between Crawfish and butter; curious cases of raw and char grilled oysters; beignets dusted with sugar and cream- NOLA demands a separate blog post on must eat foods. This is indeed a city with soul! NOLA is a nice city to explore with kids, however please be vigilant about security.
Louisiana, sadly, ranks very high in crime rate as per a study by Omega Law group More on this later! New Orleans, also endearingly called the Big Easy, has a place in heart for the eccentrics of all parts of the world. The French quarter screams of the erstwhile presence of the European traders. If you plan your trip around the Mardi Gras celebration , you are in for what they call one of the grandest carnival of the world, a true sensory overload. Sprawling mansions, green everywhere, bistros serving the highest rated food in Town, boutiques with impeccable style- the Garden district is one of the best places to stay in New Orleans.
