About Dixie Tours and Katrina Dixie Tours is a locally owned and operated tour company specialized in personalized city tours of New Orleans. Our tour guides are licensed professionals with many years of experience. We use luxury tour vans that permit legal access to all historic neighborhoods. We provide the most comprehensive city tour available. Our tour narration and stories reveal the unique legacy of Creole culture. A culture that created the most interesting city in America! We include a Katrina component, as we feel it is important to show you the recovery process taking place in New Orleans. We show you the devastation that remains from Katrina, as well as the new flood gates and armored levees designed to better protect New Orleans and its people in the future. We also show you the most beautiful and historic sections of the city, which were mostly unaffected by the storm. |
| Tour Description An in-depth historic and architectural tour of the French Quarter, including Jackson Square, St. Louis Cathedral, the Cabildo, the Pontalba buildings, the French Market and the Old U.S. Mint and Jazz Museum. A unique detour into Storyville and Basin Street, the birthplace of jazz. We drive to the Ninth Ward to witness the destruction remaining from hurricane Katrina, and view the Brad Pitt "Make It Right" homebuilding project. We then follow Esplanade Ave., the grand avenue of the Creoles, to Bayou St. John. After stopping for a short walk and narrated tour in one of our historic cemeteries, we take a short coffee break and photo op next to the bayou in City Park - home of the New Orleans Museum of Art and the majestic Dueling Oak. We then journey to Lake Pontchartrain and view the world's longest causeway bridge. We view the new flood gates and armored levees. After viewing the recovery process in the Lakeview neighborhood, an upscale area that was flooded for weeks with 15' to 20' of water, we continue to St. Charles Ave, the Mardi Gras parade route. We follow the grand avenue past Audubon Park, Tulane and Loyola universities, and the magnificent mansions of "Uptown" New Orleans. We then stop for a short walk in the most beautiful historic neighborhood in New Orleans - the Garden District, where the Anglo Americans built their ante-bellum mansions. Photo ops include the Ann Rice mansion, where many of her vampire stories were written, and the house used for the filming of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" starring Brad Pitt . We next view the Superdome and the C.B.D. (Central Business District) before returning to the French Quarter. Our tour is the most complete of all New Orleans City Tours. Don't forget you camera! |