St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 New Orleans

615 Pere Antoine Alley, 3421 Esplanade Ave New Orleans , Louisiana, United States - Phone: 504-525-9585

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    Time shift

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    ... (according to the guide books) and dipping our toes outside the tourist area. The reason for this was to visit St Louis Cemetery No 1 which contains the grave of "Voodoo Queen" Marie Laveau. Someone had thoughtfully draped a shed snakeskin over her tomb ...

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    Voodoo & the French Quarter

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    ... We walked around the French Quarter a bit before we went to the Voodoo Museum and joined a 3 hour tour of the area and St Louis Cemetery No.1, the oldest in the city. Our tour guide, a historian, seemed to know and share every fact about voodoo and the ...

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    Cities of the Dead

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    ... ;. This legend has crossed the country in many variations, but local folklorists swear that it had its start in New Orleans.. and at St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. The tale goes that three young men spent a night drinking and carousing in the French Quarter. ...

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    Voodoo, cemetaries, and food galore!

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    ... met up with Kelly and Gabe later on and did a Cemetery/Voodoo tour around the French Quarter with Historic New Orleans. We visited St Louis Cemetery No 1, Armstrong Park, and saw a lot of buildings around the French Quarter. The cemeteries in New Orleans ...

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    Day 2 - Monday

    ... streets in the French Quarter with the bus. We went all over town. Our first stop and out-of-the bus experience was at the St. Louis Cemetery No. 3 out on Esplanade Ave. We then went on to City Park and had a restroom and snack stop. We got a couple of ...

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    Way Down South in New Orleans - 2

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    ... points of interest, and the history attached to them: the various neighbourhoods or districts, the cemeteries (we visited St Louis Cemetery no 3), and the various areas that were devastated by Hurricane Katrina, some of which have not been rebuilt, or ...

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    Hurricanes and Ghost tours

    ... .  I got a gyro with some greek pasta salad.  It was really good. We then left to go check out St. Louis Cemetery No. 1.  It is the oldest cemetery in New Orleans and has famous people such as the supposed voodoo queen and Homer Plessy ...