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Article: Skip the Beads, Hold the Bourbon; A New Orleans Itinerary You'll Actually Remember When You Get Home
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 10, 2005
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Tourism is by far New Orleans's biggest business -- 8.5 million
visitors in 2003. Mammoth chain hotels dominate the lower central
business district. Conventions and big meetings follow one another
like cars in rush-hour traffic. Living in a tourist bubble, partying
too much and inquiring too little, you could have a hell of a time in
New Orleans and never really experience the actual city at all. Many
do exactly this.
But there are better alternatives. This old city on the
Mississippi, well established as a debauched playground for the
incurably juvenile, is also the most exotic travel destination in the
United States. A seriously curious traveler could spend weeks here
and not see ...
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