Very informative, and very interesting. Tour guide was extremely knowledgeable.
The tour was full of information. LOTS of information. I felt that I learned a lot about American History just from an hour's walk through St. Louis Cemetery Number 1 in New Orleans...and that's pretty awesome. You learned a lot about the practices in the above ground cemeteries, and how the dead are handled. You learn about prominent figures in New Orleans and how they contributed to the history of the city and the country. You even get to see Nicolas Cage's eventual tomb. Pretty cool stuff. However, the tour fell short in one MAJOR area. It's called the New Orleans Cemetery and Voodoo Walking Tour, but I would have to say that it's about 98% cemetery, and 2% voodoo. I tried to do my research and reading before I my vacation to New Orleans, and I seemed to get that that there was a rich history full of stories around the Voodoo aspects of the area and the rituals that some of the people practiced. Sadly, the only Voodoo we got on this tour was passing by the tomb of Marie LeVeau. Sure, we got her history of her Catholic upbringing, and her marriages, and the disappearance of her husband. But, that was as much Voodoo as my tour got. I kind of got the feeling that our tour guide, a very sweet silver-haired southern lady, didn't approve of discussing Voodoo and steered the tour away from any discussion of it. In fact, anytime anyone asked a question about the practices, she dismissed them as "tourist stories". Personally, I'd be interested in knowing those "tourist stories" since 1) I was a tourist, and 2) to know the difference between the tourist story and reality. I'm certainly going to visit NOLA again, and I'm certain to take another Cemetery and Voodoo tour, but I will be looking for a different tour guide that will at least better ratio of Voodoo to Cemetary. Sorry, but I just can't suggest to anyone to take this tour.
Great day, go with the small group tour and not the bigger one