Lafayette Louisiana is the unofficial home of Cajun Country.
Swamps, antebellum plantation homes, Cajun cooking and Zydeco music
are reasons enough for anyone but the most thickheaded of Francophobes
to visit Lafayette.
Visitors to Lafayette Louisiana should stop by the Jean Lafitte National
Park & Cultural Center to learn why Lafayette is the heart of Acadiana.
The Acadian Village is an 1800’s historic replica with an overnight
RV park. Vermillionville is an even more detailed recreation of Creole/Cajun
culture between 1765 and 1890, but also features a restaurant, an art
gallery, crafts demonstrations and lots of great traditional music.
Visitors to Lafayette Louisiana interested in working up a sweat can
go ape on the indoor climbing walls at the Rok Haus Gym or strap on
their blades and hit the ice at the Louisiana Hockeyplex. The whole
family can compete on the track at the Kart Ranch go-kart tracks.
Cajuns are descended from Acadians, French-speaking
Canadian farmers exiled from their homesteads in Nova Scotia by the
British in the 18th century.
Over 260,000 French speakers live in Louisiana,
and 2/3rds of those who speak French in the home speak a Creole or Cajun
Dialect.
