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New Orleans Esplanade Ridge: A Self-Guided Audio Tour

New Orleans Esplanade Ridge: A Self-Guided Audio Tour

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!

City: New Orleans

Sun 08 Jun

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Starting at $7.99

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Sun 08 Jun

Starting at $7.99

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What's Included

VoiceMap Application

Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata

Lifetime access to 'Esplanade Ridge: The Creole Garden District' tour

Additional Info

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

What To Expect

Museum of the Free People of Color

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

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

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.

Cancellation Policy

All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.

Reviews (5)

Heather P

Jul 2019

This tour is so much better than any commercial tour you could take with a bunch of other people. Go at your own pace, listen again if you like, explore a beautiful area of the city. This tour is packed with well-researched history and culture that is a steal for the price. I took this tour after enjoying Walking the Treme by the same author.

Adrienne W

Jul 2019

this lady ripped me off. her "maid" said she was out of town. what do you expect from rich people? dont do this supposed tour...and she doesn't want to give you a refund. I wonder who else shes done this to.

Response from Host

Jul 2019

Hello, Are you sure you intended to review our Esplanade Ridge Audio tour? The tour is entirely run from a phone app, and there is no person to interface with so we are unsure who you are speaking about. Please let us know if this was your intent, as we are unable to find any record of your booking our tour. Best regards, Alex Parkhill VoiceMap, Pte Ltd.