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New Orleans French Quarter Yellow Fever Mystery Walk

By OddballTrip
Free cancellation available
Price is S$19 per traveller* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple travellers
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h 30m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

It is August 1878, and yellow fever is turning the French Quarter into a graveyard. You are Louis Joseph Dufilho Jr., America's first licensed pharmacist, and a coded letter reaches your hands. Walk from the French Market to your apothecary on Chartres Street, decoding the secret hidden across the Quarter's iconic landmarks before the trail — and the city — are lost.
Blending New Orleans history — the Ursuline nuns, the 1878 epidemic, the wrought-iron balconies of Royal and Bourbon Streets, the Cabildo and St. Louis Cathedral — with a gothic conspiracy thriller, every stop reveals the landmark's true storey while advancing the intrigue. Augmented reality brings the clues to life, with audio narration in 32 languages.
Start whenever you like, go at your own pace, pause for photos. No guide, no fixed schedule, no app to download — just open it on your phone and play. A perfect blend of sightseeing, storytelling and puzzles for explorers, couples and families visiting New Orleans.

Activity location

  • French Market
    • 1008 N Peters St
    • 70116-3406, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • French Market
    • 1008 North Peters Street
    • 70116, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

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New Orleans French Quarter Yellow Fever Mystery Walk in Multilingual

  • Activity duration is 2 hours and 30 minutes2h 30m
    2h 30m
  • Opening hours: Wed 8:00-20:00
  • English
Price details
S$19.37 x 1 TravellerS$19.37
Total
Price is S$19.37

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    No app download required — works instantly in any smartphone web browser
  • Inclusions
    Interactive puzzles and ciphers to solve
  • Inclusions
    • Augmented reality (AR) experiences at key landmarks
  • Inclusions
    Self-guided audio walking tour
  • Inclusions
    GPS-guided digital map
  • Inclusions
    Audio commentary in 32 languages
  • Exclusions
    Service charge
  • Exclusions
    Food & Drink
  • Exclusions
    Smartphone and headphones (bring your own
  • Exclusions
    Transport to and from the meeting point

Know before you book

    • Wheelchair accessible
    • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
    • Service animals allowed
    • Public transport options are available nearby
    • Transport options are wheelchair accessible
    • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

French Market

  • 15m
Begin under the colonnade of the French Market (trading since the 1790s, one of America's oldest public markets). You open Dufilho's coded letter and decode the first French word,— the sharing of scarce remedies that kept the poor alive.

Old Ursuline Convent Museum

  • 15m
At the Old Ursuline Convent (1752), the oldest building in the Mississippi Valley, the nuns turned their halls into a fever ward. the care that comforted the dying.

Rene Beauregard House

  • 15m
Before the raised mansion (1826) of General P.G.T. Beauregard — bravery tested not by cannon but by contagion

Bourbon Street

  • 15m
Beneath the wrought-iron balconies of Bourbon Street, the storied heart of the Quarter's nightlife.

Royal Street

  • 15m
Before the famous oak-leaf cast-iron balcony of the LaBranche House (1830s) at Royal & St. Peter, where families once hung mourning crepe

Cabildo

  • 15m
At the Cabildo (1799), the Spanish colonial seat of government and site of the Louisiana Purchase transfer

St. Louis Cathedral

  • 15m
Beneath the three steeples of St. Louis Cathedral, the oldest continuously active cathedral in the USA

The Presbytere

  • 15m
At the Presbytère (1813), the Cabildo's twin that now keeps the records of the city's resilience

Jackson Square

  • 15m
At the heart of the old Place d'Armes, before Andrew Jackson's bronze statue

New Orleans Pharmacy Museum

  • 15m
Conclude at the 1823 apothecary of Dufilho himself (514 Chartres St), America's first licensed pharmacist.

Location

Activity location

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    French Market
    • 1008 N Peters St
    • 70116-3406, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    French Market
    • 1008 North Peters Street
    • 70116, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

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