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USA - LOUISIANA - NEW ORLEANS : THE CITY WITH PERFECT PITCH  New Orleans is a giant, outdoor museum, one big block party, a never-ending concert, and a gourmet/gourmand paradise. It has glorious parades, brassy bands, haunted houses, historic streetcars and paddlewheelers, a world-class zoo, festivals for every occasion, a top-five aquarium and nationally recognized children’s museum, gourmet snowballs, the French Market, the National D-Day Museum, and Six Flags theme park.
For 300 years, music has reverberated throughout the city, constant as the river, diverse as the gumbo of people who settled here. Known for jazz, Cajun, Zydeco, rhythm and blues, gospel, soul and funk, the Big Easy mix includes virtually every form of music, including rock, pop and new age. New Orleans never needs an excuse to celebrate. No matter what time of year you decide to visit, there is some sort of festival to attend. While the Mardi Gras festivities are no doubt the city's most popular, there are a wealth of other events where you can revel in the city's treasures, including its art, culture, food and, of course, music. Mardi Gras in New Orleans is the greatest free show on earth: cool parades, hot jazz, incredible entertainment and spectacular fireworks. There’s no admission charge for the romance and adventure of a city where the Old World and the New carouse together in the moonlight. Most visitors to New Orleans have some common stops on their agendas: Bourbon Street, The Aquarium of the Americas, great jazz clubs, unique shopping venues, and, of course, the greatest eateries in the world. But some of the finest attractions in the Crescent City are those that stand in one place, sometimes for centuries. They don’t speak or sing or change. They are the majestic and elegant statues of New Orleans, some dating back centuries, and others reflecting the most contemporary values and issues facing the city. Among all of the fine statuary of the city are the common themes of history, culture and a way of life known only in New Orleans. In Life on the Mississippi , Mark Twain described the daily tumult of the New Orleans Riverfront as mile after mile of paddlewheel steamboats prepared to depart each afternoon. While the old packet boats are gone from the Mississippi River today, their legacy lives on in New Orleans. Several excursion boats offer daytime and evening cruises that give modern-day visitors the same view of St. Louis Cathedral and Jackson Square enjoyed by steamboat passengers over a century ago. The landscapes of the Mississippi River deltaic plain don't conjure up conventional images of hiking, a la the Rocky Mountains or the Appalachians. But the proximity of wilderness preserves to New Orleans, and the paths that come with them, ensure that a good walk through the natural environment is never far away. At destinations like Barataria Preserve and Bayou Segnette State Park, visitors can expect to find fabulous examples of the swampy Bayou country for which this region is world famous. New Orleans has an abundance of Zenlike spas, champagne and chocolates at four star hotels and gustatory feasts at some of the world's most original and satisfying restaurants. New Orleans has it all .... the funky, the retro, the southern, the edgy - basically, the cultural mix known to the globe's most international "it" cities. Photo courtesy Carl Purcell and New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau
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