Cajun Country Tour

Event Date: Monday, March 9, 2015
Event End Date: Saturday, March 14, 2015
Event Category: Bus Outings

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SOLD OUT - Cajun Country Tour – Lafayette, LA
Monday, March 9 – Saturday, March 14
$670 pp double occupancy; $760 pp single occupancy
Depart The Oaks Monday 8 a.m.; Return Saturday 5 p.m.


 

This is the trip you have heard about from your friends and neighbors, Cajun Country - Land of Bon Temps. Enjoy the food, see the alligators and the egrets; visit plantations, historic homes and swamps.  

Monday:  Stops along the way to LA – The Village Market, St. Carmine, TX; lunch at Golden Corral, Beaumont (included); afternoon stop in Jennings, LA to play with an alligator or two.  After hotel check-in at the Wingate by Wyndham in Lafayette, dinner at Prejean’s (included).  

Tuesday:  Acadia Cultural Center, Jean Lafitte National Park for a movie and museum visit; lunch in Vermillion Ville at La Cuisine (included); Mouton House at the Lafayette Museum;  Borden’s Ice Cream Shoppe; dinner on your own at Deano’s pizza.

Wednesday:  Second longest bridge in the US: McGee’s Landing: lunch on your own at Crawfish Town USA (includes tour and demo of crawfish cleaning and preparation); Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site; dinner at Don’s Seafood (included).  

Thursday:  Konriko Rice Mill; Shadows-on-the-Teche, an antebellum sugar plantation; lunch at Bon Creole (best Poboys in Louisiana); Avery Island tour of the Tabasco Factory and Country Store;  dinner on your own.  

Friday: Bayou Teche museum; Delcambre Canal shrimp docks; lunch at Jefferson Restaurant (Choices: seafood gumbo and chef salad; chicken and sausage gumbo and 1/2 loco turkey sandwich; crawfish bisque and ¼ muletta); Rip Van Winkle Gardens; Joseph Jefferson plantation home; dinner on your own.

Saturday:  Back to Sun City

Ticket cost includes transportation, hotel, admissions to all venues, daily breakfasts, four lunches and two dinners.

Volunteer Trip Leader:  Judy Schlobohm