Going to Louisiana alone for a month. already have a place to stay in downtown Baton Rouge. I'm from Utah and have never been to Louisiana. What's good down there.
>>1221732
Not from the US, but I heard Mardi-Gras is a fucking blast there.
There may be some beaches to look at along the coast, but I don't think they're that pretty.
In Baton Rouge, just spend time at museums and pretty places and money at redtaurants and shopping malls
>>1221732
If you go to New Orleans the Audubon Zoo and Aquarium and all that are pretty cool. Also some of the historic areas are nice, might as well see the French Quarter.
Bourbon Street is trash though. Mardi Gras is trash (but it's over anyway). Avoid vagrants/panhandlers/etc. Avoid shot girls and other assorted bullshit.
As far as beaches, they are trash, the Mississippi river is huge and all the sediments and shit mean brown water and muddy beaches (even without all the horrific pollution, though the marshes and such aren't a bad thing they're much more alive than a generic beach but not picturesque). If you want nice beaches head to Alabama or better yet Florida.
Check out the swamps though, they're cool as fuck. The Atchafalaya river basin is fucking enormous.
Other than that I dunno do normal city shit or outdoors shit or whatever.
Wish I had some suggestions for you, op. I'm from Louisiana and there's not a ton to do here. You're about an hour from New Orleans, where there's more stuff to do like French Quarter, I guess.
>>1221815
Mardi Gras was last week
>>1221732
Louisiana is a damn fine state if you are into eating, at all.
In Baton Rouge, go see Mike the Tiger. If you are into history at all, the WWII destroyer USS Kidd and the Bayou St. John "Confederate" Submarine are worth a gander. The National Hansen's Disease Museum is, as far as I can gather, the only museum in the world dedicated to leprosy, but the main reason to go there would be to say you had been to a Leprosy Museum, unless the topic of leper colonies interests you a lot. Go to the capitol building and stick your finger in the bullet hole left in the wall from when Huey Long was shot. Google "Darrell The Dogigator." 6 Flags amusement park in NO is still abandoned from Katrina -- I don;t know if you can still get in, but if so it is a great place for creepy pics. Go to La Branche Plantation in St. Rose and see the grave of Adolf Hitler’s horse, Nordlicht. It also claims President Zachary Taylor’s bathtub as one of their exhibits.
Google up the frog festival, and the mud festival.
>>1222309
Holy crap, you mentioned alot of bizarre things. I like that. I will be in the French Quarter area for several days at the end of this month. Do you know any cool bizarre things to so and do around there??