Hurricane Katrina Tour

Get an eyewitness account of the events surrounding the most devastating natural - and man-made - disaster on American soil with a local’s chronology of events leading up to Hurricane Katrina and the days immediately following the disaster.On this tour, you'll have the chance to:

- Learn the history of the original city, the French Quarter, and why it was built at this particular location along the Mississippi River.
- Drive past an actual levee that “breached” and see the resulting devastation that displaced hundreds of thousands of U.S. residents.
- Learn the direct connection between America’s disappearing coastal wetlands, oil & gas pipelines, levee protection and hurricane destruction.
- See the Lakeview, Gentilly, New Orleans East, St. Bernard, and the Ninth Ward neighborhoods.


You’ll be amazed at the volume and variety of products “offloaded” in the multimodal port of New Orleans, the second largest port in the country, and then distributed to your hometown. For example, did you know that 30% of the seafood (fish, crabs, shrimp, oysters, and crawfish) harvested in the lower 48 states comes from the coastal wetlands in South Louisiana?After this tour, you’ll have a better understanding of events pre- and post-Katrina and the “Rebirth of New Orleans.

Meeting point:Ticket office at 400 Toulouse Street.
Duration:Approximately 2.5 hours
Start or opening time:1pm.
Languages:>/strong> English.

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Appropriate age for child ticket from 6 to 12 years