St. Louis Cemetery No 1 Official Tour, 501 Basin St, New Orleans (Treme District), LA 70112
If you want to see the oldest cemetery in New Orleans, St. Louis Cemetery No 1, you’ll have to book a cemetery tour. At first this seemed strange to me but after taking the tour, I learned a lot about why only tour groups are allowed to visit. In the past, people vandalized the cemetery, stealing the metal and statues to sell them. This was rampant, so restricting the visits to small tour groups helps preserve the cemeteries.
I don’t know my way around the cemetery, so having a tour guide also helps. She stopped at several graves and explained their significance, as well as the history of the cemetery (established in 1789 by Royal Spanish land grant), the burial process, the need for above ground burials, some burial traditions, voodoo beliefs, history of New Orleans/malaria epidemics, etc. Some of the graves that we stopped at include Marie Laveau - the Voodoo Queen, Nicholas Cage (he's not dead yet but he has a grave), a voodoo priest, etc.
I didn't see grass or trees.
The tour is limited to a group size of 20 and departs often. You can book online. Meet at the Basin St. Station desk which also sells souvenirs. The tour is 45 minutes long and $25 for adults, $18 for children.
Machete is mozzarella and Vasco is mimolette (or maybe something else cause mimolette is a too dramatic of an orange and not Vascos gold honey-ish color)
So I had to look up what a "threewords" is, but it turns out it's pretty cool!
Basically it's a substitute for latitude/longitude, where instead of using sequential numbers to identify a location this company has assigned every 3-meter square of the world it's own unique 3-word combination. If someone gives you the words for their location, you can look it up on the website, and find them
And yes, "from.vision.ruled" is in Highgate Cemetery.
dream jobs 1 cemetery tour guide 2 editor of published diaries 3 person who compiles index section of published diaries if that's different from 2 . end of list