Area Attractions

Jeanerette Museum

Featuring a pictorial history of Louisiana’s 200-year-old sugar cane industry, the Jeanerette Museum also offers a video presentation on the planting, harvesting and processing of sugar cane, as well as photographs and relics of the once-booming cypress industry.

Jeanerette Museum
500 East Main Street
P.O. Box 31
Jeanerette, LA 70544
337-276-4408


Jungle Gardens

Jungle Gardens is a 200-acre garden featuring special routes for motorcoaches with walking trails to Bird City and the Buddha Temple. The gardens contain a variety of floras including azaleas, camellias and bamboo, as well as fauna including alligators, deer, nutria and raccoons.

Jungle Gardens
P.O. Box 126
Avery Island, LA 70513
337-369-6243


McIlhenny Company Tabasco® Factory and Company Store

The Tabasco® Factory features a 20-minute tour that begins in the informative Historical Gallery and proceeds into the theatre, where visitors view the story of Tabasco®. After the film, viewers will proceed through the Factory Viewing Gallery to observe the bottling and packaging operations.

Visitors will enjoy the many displays in the newly erected Tabasco® Company Store, which features a variety of gifts and food products. McIlhenny Co. food products can be sampled in the store.

McIlhenny Company
Tabasco ® Factory & Company Store
Avery Island, LA 70513
800-634-9599 or 337-373-6129
www.tabasco.com


St. Martinville

This historic town, just a short drive north of New Iberia on the Bayou Teche, is notable because it features a statue of Longfellow’s Evangeline, and might have been the debarking point for many Cajuns following Le Grand Derangement, the infamous expulsion from Nova Scotia.