2. Vacation Travel • Поездки

New Orleans (06.2008)

A budget, "let's get out of town" trip for our anniversary, we head to The Big Easy. Rustem had always wanted to see the South; I hadn't been to NOLA since I was a teenager and though not particularly enamored of this city on the Mississippi, we decided to see what post-Katrina New Orleans was like, and help give the city a boost.
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Armstrong monument.
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Armstrong monument.

  • St. Louis cemetery.
  • The man who owns this tomb is alive. Fearful that no one will pay attention to his final resting place when he dies, he decorates it now to get attention.
  • Crumbled tomb with cross & beads.
  • Tombs were designed to house many generations of a family or social group.
  • Society Tombs were built by social or communal groups to ensure that all members would have a burial space. Hundreds of people are buried in some of them.
  • Tomb of legendary Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveau.
  • Voodoo legend says that to awaken Laveau’s powers, one should knock three times on her tomb (to wake her from the dead), mark her tomb with three XXX’s, make a wish and then leave an offering.
  • Gwen, St Louis Cemetery.
  • St. Louis Cemetery.
  • Offerrings at Voodoo King's Tomb.
  • Louis Armstong Park.
  • Armstrong monument.
  • Voodoo Spiritual Temple
  • Voodoo Temple & gift shop.
  • Priestess Miriam.
  • Miriam gave us a semi-coherent talk about Voodoo.
  • Temple offerrings.
  • Temple offerrings.
  • Temple altar.
  • Yet another style of architecture - The Shotgun house.
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