You'll start your day driving out to Cajun Country, where you'll go through wild cypress swamps, over the Mississippi River on an impressive suspended bridge, and along vast sugarcane fields, as the guide tells a unique story of the odyssey of the Cajun people. Next you'll take a narrated private airboat tour (about 1.5 hours) on winding bayous in remote cypress swamps. Your High-Speed Airboat provides a thrilling ride as you comfortably glide over marshes and into deep, secluded bayous. Your Cajun guide, also an alligator hunter and fur trapper, will share his knowledge of the swamp including reptile habits, healing plants and exotic birds. After this peaceful ride, explore his picturesque swamp zoo on Bayou Boeuf.

Next visit Laura, a Creole Plantation and her historic slave quarters surrounded by sugar cane fields. The guided tour (may be non-private) transports you with dramatic detail into the charmed yet tragic lives of four generations of Creole owners and their slaves.

Après un court trajet en voiture depuis la plantation Laura, vous vous installerez pour un déjeuner assis dans l'élégante salle à manger de Houmas House. Après le déjeuner, parcourez les 250 ans d'histoire de ce domaine et découvrez comment les propriétaires successifs et le fleuve Mississippi ont transformé ce modeste manoir en ce qu'il est aujourd'hui. Une collection d'œuvres d'art, de meubles et d'objets anciens raconte l'histoire de la vie sur la plantation. 15 hectares de jardins entourent le manoir.