Thursday, July 24, 2014

Louisiana, New Orleans

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Our friends told me that they drove about six hours from Houston to New Orleans, because she loved New Orleans. Her family often went to New Orleans for Christmas. We drove to New Orleans as long as two hours, but still did not go. Just a long weekend, my husband decided to go to New Orleans.



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New Orleans is Louisiana's largest city and second largest port after New York City. It is also one of the main tourist areas of the U.S., with its famous jazz, architecture, cuisine, unique French Quarter, New Orleans, and proud of the many museums, galleries, and a huge number of adult bar attracts from around the world travelers.







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The Mississippi River is the mother river here. It is also the world's third longest river, flows into the Gulf of Mexico from New Orleans. 










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We can also take a tour of the Mississippi River flows antique steamboat. Rivers like the wide blue sky. My husband photographed many beautiful pictures.








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Back to shore, we walked most famous French Quarter of New Orleans. French Quarter is the center of an aspect are dozens of regional road. Each street has several policemen holding batons. They just fight and thieves, other not turn a blind eye.







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The most popular is the Bourbon Street in the French Quarter. Here is the craziest place in New Orleans.




  




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Bourbon Street is not a lot of people, but that a small fan inside the door but it is very busy. At night, both inside each hand holding wine, sexy girl standing in front of the bar are ready to pick up in Bourbon Street. Police riding a tall horse, to prevent drunken trouble. Tourists all over the world who have gathered here in the evening, the music was deafening, do not know what music.




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A few hundred meters of the Bourbon Street, oysters, craw fish, Gumbo soup, cocktails, jazz, Showgirls, is the same kind of flooded debut. New Orleans night, there is quiet, there is noise, there is sadness, there is love, there is suffering, there are extravagant, unite emotions stirred together made ​​this city the most wonderful salad.






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The city, because of its French origin, ranks among the four major American city. In the French Quarter, we went to visit the St. Louis Cathedral in the French Quarter, the church has three spires, as a sign of New Orleans. Built in 1794 in St. Louis Catholic Cathedral is the pride of the city.






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This is the famous General Andrew Jackson. Andrew Jackson, March15, 1767 ─ June 8, 1845. He was the seventh president of the United States (1829-1837 years). Florida's first governor, war hero Battle of New Orleans, one of the founders of the Democratic Party, Jacksonian democracy because of his name. In American political history, the 1820s and 1830s, a second party system (Second Party System) with his extreme symbol. Jackson has always been rated as one of America's 10 most outstanding president.






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The face of the Church of Jackson Square, the artist gathered place. There are performing on the square, the audience, as well as offering painting. Painter sitting on the edge of a small garden on display for visitors to pick their works, but also allows the artist on the spot painting.







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There are old-fashioned tram on St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, from downtown all the way to the zoo. St. Charles streetcar line is the world's oldest continuously operating electrified railway line in New Orleans.








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Carriage around New Orleans, is very popular. Just do not know sitting on the carriage, and how that smell?










Summary: New Orleans social security is not very good. Especially in areas outside of the French Quarter, a high crime rate. Travel to New Orleans to be especially careful.