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New Orleans Esplanade Ridge: A Self-Guided Audio Tour

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Price is P 331 per adult
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  • 1h 15m
  • Mobile voucher
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Overview

Explore the Creole Garden District on Esplanade Avenue at your own pace with this highly acclaimed self guided audio tour of New Orleans. Beginning at Ashton’s Bed and Breakfast, a one-time antebellum plantation house in the heart of the Faubourg St. John, you'll stroll down the beautiful central avenue of the city’s Creole Garden District, while discovering enticing stories of a neighborhood built by and for French Creoles in response to the encroaching Americanism that followed the 1803’s Louisiana Purchase. The tour is ready whenever you feel like taking a stroll. Using your smart phone's GPS and the VoiceMap mobile app, the audio plays automatically at exactly the right time and place. If you prefer, you can download the tour and use it offline as well.If you've got an hour or so and want to explore the lush and historical sites that this New Orleans faubourg has to offer – this is the tour for you!  

Activity location

  • 2023 Esplanade Ave
    • 2023 Esplanade Avenue
    • 70116, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • 2023 Esplanade Ave
    • 2023 Esplanade Avenue
    • 70116, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

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New Orleans Esplanade Ridge: A Self-Guided Audio Tour in English
  • Activity duration is 1 hour and 15 minutes1h 15m1h 15m
  • Opening hours: Wed 0:00-23:59
  • English

Explore the Creole Garden District on Esplanade Avenue at your own pace with this highly acclaimed self guided audio tour of New Orleans. Beginning at Ashton’s Bed and Breakfast, a one-time antebellum plantation house in the heart of the Faubourg St. John, you'll stroll down the beautiful central avenue of the city’s Creole Garden District, while discovering enticing stories of a neighborhood built by and for French Creoles in response to the encroaching Americanism that followed the 1803’s Louisiana Purchase. The tour is ready whenever you feel like taking a stroll. Using your smart phone's GPS and the VoiceMap mobile app, the audio plays automatically at exactly the right time and place. If you prefer, you can download the tour and use it offline as well.If you've got an hour or so and want to explore the lush and historical sites that this New Orleans faubourg has to offer – this is the tour for you!  

Language options: English
Price details
P 331.40 x 1 AdultP 331.40
Total
Price is P 331.40

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedVoiceMap Application
  • What's includedWhat's includedOffline access to audio, maps, and geodata
  • What's includedWhat's includedLifetime access to 'Esplanade Ridge: The Creole Garden District' tour
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedSmartphone
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedTransportation
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedFood/drinks
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedTickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route

Know before you book

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Museum of the Free People of Color (Pass by)
The Museum of the Free People of Color preserves the three hundred-year history and culture of free people of color in New Orleans. The museum explores their history beginning in 1708. The front gallery chronicles the first 100 years, including the period under Spanish rule, 1763 to 1800, when slaves were sometimes allowed to purchase their freedom. One of the most moving exhibits includes a floor-to-ceiling petition to President Abraham Lincoln, dated Jan. 5, 1864, from 1,000 free men of color who were New Orleans property owners.
Garden District (Pass by)
The Garden District has a collection of well preserved historic mansions that were built by wealthy newcomers to New Orleans. The area was developed between 1832 and 1900 and has a diverse mix of homes, antique shops, bars, cafes, gardens, parks and restaurants.
St. Louis Cemetery No. 3 (Pass by)
St. Louis Cemetery #3 is also known as The Angel Cemetery is located on ground that once was home to a leper colony. Louisiana has long hosted communities for the victims of leprosy and this cemetery began as a burial ground for those who died of the disease in New Orleans. Decades later, in 1854, a particularly devastating yellow fever epidemic left the city more in need of 8,000 burial plots so the priests at St. Louis Cathedral purchased the land for another sorely needed Catholic cemetery.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIES2023 Esplanade Ave
    • 2023 Esplanade Avenue
    • 70116, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE2023 Esplanade Ave
    • 2023 Esplanade Avenue
    • 70116, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

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