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Currents of History: Tragedy & Triumph on the Banks of the Mississippi
This is a journey over the River (by taking the Canal Street Ferry), through water—levees, storms, commerce and catastrophe. From the First People, to the French settlers who saw opportunity in the high ground (and ignored the surrounding swampland), to enslaved Africans who labored and resisted along the docks, to the Great Flood and Hurricane Katrina—we follow the river’s wide and winding wake through New Orleans' soul.
This isn’t a disaster tour. It’s a riverine resurrection story.
Told with reverence, grit, and poetic insight, Currents of History is for those who want to understand New Orleans beyond Bourbon Street—through the waterlines etched in our souls and the unbreakable spirit that keeps rising with the tide.
Audience: This tour is appropriate for guests of all ages.
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes
Where: Begins at the Canal Street Ferry Terminal, along the riverfront at the river end of Canal Street.
Includes: Ferry ride. Historic riverfront walk, stories of hurricanes, commerce, levees, migration, music, and the people who lived and fought along the banks of America’s most mythic river.
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- people Group Size: From 1 Up To 16
From $48.00
Blood & Brick: Macabre Histories of the French Quarter
Blood & Brick is a twilight walk through the Quarter’s most chilling truths, where elegance and violence once shared a pillow, and where the echoes of real crimes still linger. This is not a ghost tour. This is the breathless hush after the scream. From the modern tragedy of Zack and Addie to the violent rise of Gallatin Street’s underworld, and the madness behind the trunk murders, we confront the beautiful horror of a city that remembers everything!
Audience: This tour is for mature audiences only. Guests MUST BE OVER 18 TO ATTEND THIS TOUR. This tour contains story scenes of violence, sexual situations, and very strong language.
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes
Where: Starts at Jackson Square (exact details upon booking)
Includes: Macabre murders, mayhem makers, and violent scenes seared into the hearts of the city.
Restrictions
- people Group Size: From 1 Up To 16
From $48.00
Gilded Grit: Women of the Vieux Carré
Gilded Grit is a walking tour that peels back the layers of lace and legend to reveal the fiercely complex women who shaped the heart of New Orleans. Their names echo like hymns and hexes across the cobblestones: Baroness Pontalba, Elizabeth Werlein, Madame LaLaurie, Marie Laveau, Saint Frances Cabrini, Rose Nicaud—each one bending the city to her will in ways history dares not forget.
We begin with the iron will and ironwork of Micaela Leonarda Antonia de Almonester Rojas y de la Ronde, the Baroness de Pontalba, who stamped her initials—and her vision—into the architecture of Jackson Square after surviving an assassination attempt by her own father-in-law. Her story is one of defiance and civic rebirth.
From there, we trace the preservationist fire of Elizabeth Werlein, the grande dame who fought to keep the Quarter’s famous structures & soul intact. We’ll speak of Madame LaLaurie—but not through haunted legend alone. Her cruelty will be laid bare as a testimony to racial violence cloaked in wealth and elegance.
And of course, we summon Marie Laveau—Queen of the Voodoo world, healer, mystic, and matriarch of mystery. Her spirit still coils through Congo Square and whispers through shutters. We'll pass the places she touched, the myths she mastered, the people she protected and terrified.
And we’ll honor Rose Nicaud, a once-enslaved woman who carved out a life selling coffee on the streets—one of the city’s first Black entrepreneurs, sweetening the morning air with roasted beans long before cafés lined every corner.
These women didn’t just live in New Orleans. They built her, broke her, resurrected her.
Audience: This tour is for ages 13+. It may contain story scenes of violence, sexual situations, and strong language.
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes
Where: French Quarter (starting location provided upon booking)
Includes: Riveting stories, landmark stops, and intimate histories of the women who walked boldly through—and into—the legend of the Quarter.
Restrictions
- people Group Size: From 1 Up To 16
From $48.00
Quarter Notes: French Quarter Favorites
New Orleans is a city best met in person, where every crooked shutter and wrought-iron balcony holds court with history, mischief, and melody. Quarter Notes is your invitation to walk hand-in-hand with the past,guided by stories that bring the Quarter’s most iconic locations to full-bodied life. This experience of the French Quarter is geared towards first time visitors or those who have never gotten off of Bourbon Street; yes there are other parts to the Quarter!
This is your first dance with the Vieux Carré—and she intends to leave her mark.
We’ll begin beneath the shadow of the mighty St. Louis Cathedral, where artists still sketch ghosts and street preachers tango with jazzmen. We’ll linger in Jackson Square, that old colonial stage where empires shifted and revolutions whispered.
From there, we’ll trace Royal Street’s stately elegance, peer into secret courtyards, and drift past the old Ursuline Convent with its silent, shuttered mysteries. We’ll pass by where Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner and others penned Iconic works, where pirates bartered with priests, and where beignets powdered the lips of poets.
You’ll see the Cabildo and the Presbytère, hear of the treasures each holds, and glimpse the Mississippi’s eternal churn at the Moonwalk. Every stop is a chord in the city’s symphony—sometimes sweet, sometimes blue, always unforgettable.
Told with wit, warmth, and deep local reverence, Quarter Notes is the perfect welcome into New Orleans' living history. Come see the Quarter not as a postcard—but as a poem still being written. Audience: This tour is appropriate for people of all ages.
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes
Where: Starts at Jackson Square (exact details upon booking)
Includes: Iconic landmarks, little-known facts, a few scandalous surprises—and the magic only walking these streets can offer.
Restrictions
- people Group Size: From 1 Up To 16
From $48.00
Last Fling in NOLA
Last Fling in NOLA is The Real's unapologetically sultry, celebratory stroll through the French Quarter -- designed just for the bachelor and bachelorette parties who crave something richer than neon beads and frozen daiquiris.
This isn't your average drunken crawl. This is a toast to the spirit of the City herself: seductive, unruly, drenched in secrets and song. We'll wind by hidden courtyards and shadowed balconies, and spill the tea on scandalous love affairs, brothel dynasties, pirate romances, and the saints and sinners who made this city a playground for the senses.
Whether you're celebrating the end of singlehood or just in town to raise a little hell with your chosen krewe, this tour is your crash course in how New Orleans does passion, pleasure, and partying with panache. It's equal parts juicy history, local lore, and insider tips -- all served with a wink and a shot of something strong.
Lace up your best walking shoes and let us lead you through the French Quarter like only locals can: with irreverent reverence and just enough scandal to make your grand-mere' blush.
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- people Group Size: From 1 Up To 16
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