About New Orleans
 New Orleans is an important port city in Louisiana, along the Mississippi River. Golfing, fishing, hiking, riding, nature tours, bicycling, and almost anything that an outdoor oriented vacationer looks for can be experienced at New Orleans. This is an exciting city and a cosmopolitan one as well. The New Orleans Museum of Art displays New Orleans' rich heritage. The Museum has over 40,000 permanent exhibits, and strives to preserve and present a representative survey of the finest art mankind has produced from antiquity to the present. Edgar Degas's impressive collection is also housed by the museum. Edgar Degas visited his parents in New Orleans in 1871 and 1872 and created his works of art just 20 blocks from the Museum.
The Audobon Park and Zoological Garden is packed with more than 1,000 varieties of plants and 1,800 animals - an exhaustive replication natural habitats from around the world. New Orleans has a French Quarter, and it's here where the nocturnal humans need to prowl! Restaurants and other attractions make nightlife here really active. The grandest of all parties, Mardi Gras takes place at New Orleans' French Quarter from mid-February to early March, culminating with "Fat Tuesday", the end of the festival and the beginning of Lent.
Sports fans have much to cheer at New Orleans. Called the "Sportsmen's Paradise", New Orleans is home to the Louisiana Superdrome, home to the New Orleans Saints, the Tulane University football team, and the Nokia Sugar Bowl, and also classified as one of the “man made wonders of the world”. Anglers can search for shark, redfish, sea trout, croaker, black drum, and sting ray, thanks to the fishing charters that are available. Robert Trent Jones has designed golf courses in New Orleans and driving ranges for those who want some quick practice.
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