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Visitors To New Orleans

Do people in New Orleans expect tourists to speak French?

What’s a Cajun? What’s a Creole?

Is there really a streetcar named Desire?

Is New Orleans safe?

Where’s the best part of town to stay in?

Besides the French Quarter, what else is there to see in New Orleans?

Is there decent public transportation in New Orleans?

Is jazz the only music I’ll hear in New Orleans?

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Featured Area

The French
Quarter

The whole French
Quarter is a
National Historic
District.  The NPS
oversees
architectural
preservation, and
rangers offer free
walking tours.  
Stroll though the
residential lower
Quarter and then hit
the bright lights and
noisy bars along
Bourbon Street in
the upper Quarter.