A tour of Katrina and New Orleans

HURRICANE KATRINA
“AMERICA 'S WORST CATASTROPHE”

An eyewitness account of the events surrounding the most devastating natural disaster on American soil!

• Learn the history of the original city, the French Quarter, and why it was built at this particular location along the Mississippi River.
  
  
• We'll drive past an actual levee that “breached” and see the resulting devastation that displaced hundreds of thousands of U.S. residents.
  
  
• The direct connection between America 's disappearing coastal wetlands, oil & gas pipelines, levee protection and hurricane destruction will be explained.
  
  
• Your tour guide will give a “local's ” chronology of events leading up to Hurricane Katrina and the days immediately following the disaster.
  
  
• This tour will travel through neighborhoods such as Lakeview, Gentilly, New Orleans East, and the Ninth Ward.
  
  
• You'll be amazed at the volume and variety of products “offloaded” in the multimodal port of New Orleans , the second largest port in the country, and then distributed to your hometown.
  
  
• Did you know that 30% of the seafood (fish, crabs, shrimp, oysters, and crawfish) harvested in the lower 48 states comes from the coastal wetlands in South Louisiana?
  
  
• After this tour, you'll have a better understanding of events pre and post Katrina and the “Rebirth of New Orleans!

Souvenir Hurricane Katrina book available for purchase at departure point!

Includes narrated tour and refreshment stop.

Hurricane Katrina Tour
Tour Information
Tour Length:	3 hours
Departure Times:	9 am & 1pm Daily
Departs From:	Gray Line Lighthouse Ticket Office (Toulouse St. @ the Mississippi River in the French Quarter)
Cost:	Adult: $35.00 Child: $28.00 Group: $28.75
Group rates apply to a minimum of 10 passengers on our regularly scheduled tours. Private group tours can be arranged at other departure times and require a minimum of 20 passengers.
Reservations are recommended by 4pm on the day prior to the tour departure. Above schedule valid through May 31, 2007. For schedule information after May 31, 2007, please call (800) 535-7786 or (504) 569-1401.

email: tours@graylineneworleans.com