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Step back in time to a small 19th-century Cajun bayou community, which includes genuine Cajun homes relocated and combined with recreated period buildings and a Native American museum. source: tripadvisor |
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Avery Island - Home of Tabasco |
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The home of world-famous TABASCO® Sauce, Avery Island, lies about 140 miles west of New Orleans. Surrounded by swamps and marshes and
inhabited by exotic plant and animal species from around
the world, Avery Island is a mysteriously beautiful place where the pepper fields grow, the factory hums, and the McIlhennys and their employees continue to live and work much as they have for generations. |
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The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist |
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This cathedral was built in the Dutch Romanesque style. The Cathedral grounds include a 500 year old oak tree and cemetary dating from 1821 while the museum chronicles the parish history through artifacts, documents and memorabilia. source: tripadvisor |
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Evangeline Downs Racetrack & Casino |
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Evangeline Downs Racetrack and Casino is the first facility of its kind to be built from the ground up. The gaming facility provides 80,000 square feet of entertainment
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Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center |
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The lives of the Acadians (Cajuns) and others whose travels brought them to Louisiana’s bayous are featured at the Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center in Thibodaux. Ranger-guided boat tours cruise Bayou Lafourche and explore the natural and cultural history of the settlements that grew up along the bayou to create "the longest street in the world," Louisiana's Highway One. source: nps.gov |
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Kart Ranch Family Fun Center |
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Kart Ranch is Lafayette,'s Premier Family Entertainment Center. It features go karts, kiddie karts, bumper boats, Water Wars, l8 holes of southern-themed mini golf , cascading waterfalls, state of the art batting cages.. Also a huge arcade with redemption, video games, pool tables, indoor childrens soft play area, and concessions. |
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Built in 1800 by city founder Jean Mouton, this antebellum home later belonged to Jean's son, Alexandre, first Democratic governor of Louisiana, and now houses antiques, paintings and a collection of Mardi Gras costumes. |
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Mcgee's Atchafalaya Landing Basin Tours |
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Aboard one of McGee’s sightseeing boats your trip will take you into the interior of one of America’s greatest river swamps. Your tour guide will explain from personal experience, what it is like to live on a house boat or stilt house and live off the land... all while pointing out the local indeginous plants and wildlife as the tour progresses. |
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The University Art Museum |
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Preserving works of art unique to the cultural heritage of Southwestern Louisiana, this museum's permanent collection includes more than 1,000 paintings, prints and sculpture of 18th, 19th and 20th-century Louisiana artists. |
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Get a taste of life for the 18th-century Acadian settlers in this 23-acre village with meticulously recreated period homes, costumed staff demonstrating arts and crafts and a restaurant serving Cajun and Creole food. source: tripadvisor |
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Visitors can walk our shaded pathways and view our animals from all around the world in a very up-close-and-personal experience. The zoo has more than 70 natural exhibits housing animals from all around the globe. |
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Children's Museum of Acadiana |
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Developed especially for children, this museum offers hands-on displays of real life situations such as an operating room, television news room, and a bank. |
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Free museum located in a converted train depot, which offers an eclectic collection of Cajun music artifacts, a railroad caboose, old Mardi Gras displays and much more. source: tripadvisor |
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The Lafayette Natural Museum and Planetarium |
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The cultural heritage of Southwestern Louisiana is preserved at this combination museum and planetarium, which houses over 1,000 paintings, prints and sculpture of Louisiana artists and regularly changing exhibits and planetarium programs. source: tripadvisor |
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Approximately 31 miles in length, the trail is designated for foot or mountain biking traffic only. Traversing flat to rolling terrain, the trail winds through pine hills
and hardwood bottoms, passing through managed forest areas, clearings,
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Longfellow-Evangeline State Park |
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Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site explores the cultural interplay among the diverse peoples along the famed Bayou Teche. Acadians and Creoles, Indians and Africans, Frenchmen and Spaniards, slaves and free people of color-all contributed to the historical tradition of cultural diversity in the Teche region. |
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