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Swamp & Plantation Tours · New Orleans, LA

Cajun Encounters Tour Company

Cajun Encounters is a New Orleans tour company with 25+ years of experience delivering authentic Louisiana adventures.

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Overview

About Cajun Encounters Tour Company

They offer thrilling expeditions through Honey Island Swamp, historic plantation tours, ghost-bus journeys, distillery tastings, and guided city explorations led by knowledgeable historians. Expert guides customize itineraries for families, corporate groups, and special events, with deep knowledge of Louisiana's ecology, culture, and history. A Cajun Pavilion offers optional seafood boils and live music for group celebrations.

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Made for

  • Tours run daily, and custom group tours and itinerary planning are also available.
  • Tour types include swamp, distillery and plantation tours.
  • The swamp tour lasts two hours on the bayou.
  • A local boat captain narrates wildlife stories on the water.
  • French Quarter and nearby neighborhoods can be toured on foot, by bus or both.
  • Plantation tours visit Oak Alley and Whitney, the latter a memorial to enslaved people.
  • Custom tour boats launch from the West Pearl River site to explore sloughs with old growth Bald Cypress.
  • Special programming for school groups educates students about the Louisiana swamp.
  • Seafood boils are available alongside tours.
  • The company has partnered with Seven Three Distilling for distillery tours.
  • The ghost bus tour is a two-hour night ride through the Garden District, Uptown and Lafayette Cemetery.
  • Ghost bus narration is GPS-triggered, with historical footage, archival images and paranormal accounts.
  • Groups of 20 or more can work with the team on a customized itinerary.
  • Group bookings cover family reunions, bachelor parties, school trips, corporate outings and seafood boils at the Cajun Pavilion.

The packages

Intro To Seven Three: Tour & Tasting

A production facility tour with a guided tasting introducing Seven Three's signature flavors.

Seven Three Barrel Experience: Premium Tasting

A premium tour with a facility exploration and tasting of select aged spirits.

Distillery Tour, Spirit Tasting & Cocktail Class

After a guided tasting, guests join a mixology class and craft cocktails.

Private Distillery Tour With Head Distiller

A behind-the-scenes tour led by the Head Distiller covering bottling, barreling and a spirit tasting.

Distillery Tour & Personalized Bottle Fill

Guests tour the local distillery and fill a bottle of limited-release Bywater Four Grain Bourbon.

The styles

ghost bus tour

Evening departures suit the ghost bus tour, after city lights come on.

City & Cemetery Bus Tour

Daytime departures offering views of the French Quarter, cemeteries and neighborhood landmarks.

Event experiences

  • An online merchandise store is available.

Details from cajunencounters.com

Good to know

What’s included

expert historian guideHoney Island Swamp accesscustomized itinerary optionstransportation options
  • family-owned since 1989
  • groups of 20+ welcome
  • optional seafood boil add-on
  • 100,000+ five-star reviews
  • licensed guides and captains

as of September 2026 — verify on the operator’s site

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