Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Entertainment
To find out what's playing around town, pick up the free weekly
Times
(
www.theadvertiser.com
- check under Times of Acadiana) or
Independent
(
www.theind.com
).
Besides the places below, Cajun restaurants like
Randol's
( 337-981-7080;
( 337-896-3247;
www.prejeans.com
; 3480 NE Evangeline Thruway/I-49)
feature live music on
weekends nights.
Blue Moon Saloon
LIVE MUSIC
(
www.bluemoonpresents.com
;
215 E Convent St; cover $5-8)
This intimate venue on the back
porch of the accompanying guesthouse is what Louisiana is all about: good music, good
people and good beer. What's not to love?
Artmosphere
LIVE MUSIC
(902 Johnston St; 11am-2am Mon-Sat, to midnight Sun)
Graffiti, hookahs, hipsters and an
edgy line-up of acts; it's more CBGB's than Cajun dancehall, but it's a lot of fun, and
there's good Mexican food to boot.
Information
Visitor Center
(
800-346-1958, 337-232-3737;
www.lafayettetravel.com
; 1400 NW Evangeline
Thruway;
8:30am-5pm Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm Sat & Sun)
Getting There & Away
From I-10, exit 103A, the Evangeline Thruway (Hwy 167) goes to the center of town.
Greyhound
( 337-235-1541; 100 Lee Ave)
operates from a hub beside the central commer-
cial district, making several runs daily to New Orleans (3½ hours) and Baton Rouge (one
hour). The
Amtrak
(100 Lee Ave)
train
Sunset Limited
goes to New Orleans three times a
week.
Cajun Wetlands
In 1755, the Grand Dérangement, the British expulsion of rural French settlers from Aca-
diana (now Nova Scotia, Canada), created a homeless population of Acadians who
searched for decades for a place to settle. In 1785, seven boatloads of exiles arrived in
