New Orleans City and Swamp Tour: Private French Quarter Driving + Airboat Adventure

The morning opens in a language of shutters and ironwork: streetcars clack along Canal Street, shutters creak on courtyard-facing apartments, and the smell of chicory coffee drifts from a corner café. In a private luxury vehicle the city loosens its secrets — the guide points out a hidden wrought-iron balcony here, the scarred brick of an 18th-century building there — and then, without ceremony, the ride turns and the asphalt gives way to red dirt and cypress knees.