Lake Charles/Southwest Louisiana
Our warm, Cajun personalities will make you feel at home while exploring our diverse offering with the glitz of casino gaming, quiet golf greens, live music at trendy nightspots, Cajun culinary creations and restaurants, not to mention year round fishing and hunting that are second to none. Outdoor adventures also include a journey into Louisiana's Outback along the Creole Nature Trail All-American Road. Southwest Louisiana is the Festival Capital of the state boasting over 75 fairs and festivals including Mardi Gras, the Contraband Days Pirate Festival and the Cajun Music & Food Festival. And, the Charpentier Historic District and area museums give visitors a glimpse into our past. For the perfect family trip, group tour, reunion or convention, it's Lake Charles/Southwest Louisiana and its six cities: Lake Charles, Sulphur, Westlake, DeQuincy, Vinton and Iowa.
Boston Vacation Travel Guide | Expedia
Come to Boston to discover a city with roots in both the past and future.
Classic Boston sightseeing begins with walking the Freedom Trail for a bird’s-eye view of the American Revolution, including Boston Common and “Old Ironsides,” the USS Constitution. Stop by some of the most prestigious colleges in the nation, including Harvard and Tufts University. Continue your Boston tour with a stop at Faneuil Hall, which has served as a marketplace since 1742, and check out a variety of shops and street performers.
No trip to Boston is complete without paying homage at Fenway Park, where the Red Sox have held court for over a century. Don’t forget to fuel up with food afterward; Boston boasts a variety of restaurants, ranging from fresh seafood to classic Italian and everything in between.
Visit our Boston travel guide page for more information or to plan your next vacation to Boston!
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Lake Charles Historic Tour App
The Charpentier Historic District has been brought to life with the new Lake Charles Historic Tour App. The free app can be downloaded in multiple languages including English, French, Spanish, German and closed-captioning for the hearing challenged. It will give visitors a guided experience through the 40-block area on the National Register of Historic Places.
Whether you drive, take a carriage ride or walk, the new Lake Charles Historic Tour app will give you turn-by-turn directions through the Charpentier (French for carpenter) Historic District in downtown Lake Charles that pays homage to the carpenter-architects who freely designed as they built, creating a unique Lake Charles style. Users can choose a 30 Minute Tour, One Hour tour or Calcasieu Ghost Tour.
There are also videos on the Great Fire of 1910, Ghost Stories and Legends, Lake Charles Architecture and the History of Lake Charles. The app promotes social network sharing and even allows the user to create a post card from the district.
The CVB worked with BarZ Adventures and Adley Cormier with the Calcasieu Historical Preservation Society on the app content. Many photos used were from McNeese State University, the Louisiana Digital Library, the Imperial Calcasieu Museum and the CVB.
Download the app in your app store by searching for “Lake Charles Historic Tour.”
Lake Charles/Southwest Louisiana Christmas
Find great Christmas events, parades and holiday markets in Southwest Louisiana! It even snows annually in Sulphur, LA at the Christmas Under the Oaks/Holiday House! Come during the holiday season and expect to have fun while you shop until you drop at Mistletoe and Moss Holiday Market, or soak up the arts with a holiday concert by the Lake Charles Symphony or a stirring ballet by the Lake Charles Civic Ballet and other performances from local theatre companies.
Events can be found in Lake Charles, Sulphur, Westlake, Dequincy, Vinton, and Iowa.
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Seychelles. The word Paradise must have been invented for this Indian Ocean Island Chain.
Seychelles officially the Republic of Seychelles is an island country spanning an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some 1,500 kilometres (932 mi) east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar.
Other nearby island countries and territories include Zanzibar to the west, Mauritius, Rodrigues, Agalega and Réunion to the south, and Comoros and Mayotte to the southwest. Seychelles, with an estimated population of 86,525, has the smallest population of any African state. It also has the highest Human Development Index in Africa. Scholars assume that Austronesian seafarers, and later Maldivian and Arab traders were the first to visit the uninhabited Seychelles. Remains of Maldivian mariner presence from the 12th century were found in Silhouette Island.[4] The earliest recorded sighting by Europeans took place in 1502 by the Portuguese Admiral Vasco da Gama, who passed through the Amirantes and named them after himself (islands of the Admiral).
A transit point for trade between Africa and Asia, the islands were occasionally used by pirates until the French began to take control starting in 1756 when a Stone of Possession was laid by Captain Nicholas Morphey. The islands were named after Jean Moreau de Séchelles, Louis XV's Minister of Finance.
The British contested control over the islands between 1794 and 1810. Jean Baptiste Quéau de Quincy, French administrator of Seychelles during the years of war with the United Kingdom, declined to resist when armed enemy warships arrived. Instead, he successfully negotiated the status of capitulation to Britain which gave the settlers a privileged position of neutrality.
Britain eventually assumed full control upon the surrender of Mauritius in 1810, formalised in 1814 at the Treaty of Paris. Seychelles became a crown colony separate from Mauritius in 1903. Elections were held in 1966 and 1970. Independence was granted in 1976 as a republic within the Commonwealth.[7] In 1977, a coup d'état ousted the first president of the republic, James Mancham, who was replaced by France Albert René. The 1979 constitution declared a socialist one-party state, which lasted until 1991. The first draft of a new constitution failed to receive the requisite 60% of voters in 1992, but an amended version was approved in 1993.
Acadian Museum
Acadians are just one of the many groups of people who have called Louisiana home. With their French dialect and unique style of culture, the Acadian people have had a significant influence on Louisiana's culture.
Seattle - Etat de Washington - Etats-Unis
Seattle est la plus grande ville de l'État de Washington, au nord-ouest des Etats-Unis, dans le conté de King. Elle est située entre le bras de mer de l'océan Pacifique appelé Puget Sound, et le lac Washington, à 155 km au sud de la frontière entre le Canada et les États-Unis. C’est un grand pôle industriel et un important port de commerce transpacifique.
Seattle dispose d’un climat tempéré de type océanique. Située en position d'abri, les étés peuvent même parfois aboutir à une semi-aridité de type méditerranéen. Pourtant, et c’est assez contradictoire, malgré la protection des Olympic Mountains, Seattle a la réputation d’être une ville pluvieuse. J’en ai eu la confirmation pendant les deux jours où je suis resté dans cette ville. Il est tombé des trombes d’eau et j’ai donc dû me contenter de visites dans les endroits les plus protégés.
L’attraction à ne pas rater à Seattle c’est son formidable marché public. Il se situe sur la Pike Place Market. Sa grande et majestueuse enseigne est le symbole même de la ville.
Par la force des choses, j'ai fait aussi le Seattle Underground Tour...
Il faut savoir que la première industrie de Seattle a été une scierie. Elle a été construite par Yesler , l’un des premiers pionniers. Elle permettait de fournir tous les bois nécessaires à la construction de la ville. Malheureusement, le 6 juin 1889, un incendie s’est déclarédans l'usine et une grande partie de la ville est partie en fumée.Le quartier de Pioneer Square fut reconstruit sur les anciennes fondations qui avaient brûlées, élevant ainsi le niveau des rues.
En outre, Seattle est une ville où se produit assez fréquemment de grosses marées. Le problème, c’est qu’à chacune de celles-ci, ce quartier de la ville était régulièrement submergé par les eaux. Il a donc été nécessaire de surélever encore d’avantage les fondations. La visite souterraine permet de descendre voir les façades de la ville telles qu’elles étaient avant 1889, et de comprendre l’aménagement du quartier actuel, rehaussé à cause des nombreuses inondations…
The Longest Bridge in the United States- Lake Pontchartrain Causeway!
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is the longest continuous bridge passing over water, the waters of New Orleans's Lake Pontchartrain to be exact. The bridge is so long that for 8 of its 24 miles, you can't see land in any direction.
The longer of the two bridges is 23.83 miles (38.35 km) long. The southern terminus of the Causeway is in Metairie, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans. The northern terminus is at Mandeville, Louisiana.
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Guia de viagem - Boston, Estados Unidos | Expedia.com.br
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Time Lapse: Evening Drive through Quincy and George, Washington
July 2, 2016 - A brief tour of Quincy, Washington, and then a return trip to nearby George, Washington, 15 minutes away.