French America

After the sad devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina upon the City of New Orleans, it is comforting to know that much of the State of Louisiana was unaffected by the hurricane. 

Near the Cajun “capital” Lafayette (250km west of New Orleans, with direct air connections to/from Houston, Atlanta and Memphis), the Atchafalaya Basin is the largest wetland reserve in North America – a network of sleepy bayous and birdlife-rich lakes and swamps teeming with alligators, all spread over some 400,000ha.