- Duration: 11 nights
- Distance (approx): 950 miles
- When to visit: Year round
- Price: Call for info
Mississippi & Music
Start in ‘The Big Easy’, New Orleans, still vibrant and colourful, with the French Quarter and Bourbon Street. Follow the Mississippi through Baton Rouge and Plantation Country with its great homes to Natchez the setting for the Lady Killers remake. Take the Natchez Trace Parkway past Jackson and on to Greenwood in The Delta with fertile cotton fields and the birthplace of the blues. North to Memphis along Highway 61 and more rhythm. Heading east across Tennessee the scenery changes as does the musical heritage through rockabilly to country in Nashville, also the back-drop to the film The Matrix. From Nashville south to Chattanooga with more musical connotations, celebrating its railroad heritage, and also wonderful mountain scenery. Finally drive south to the Olympic city of Atlanta.
Featured accomodation
Monmouth Plantation
Monmouth Plantation, a National Historic Landmark, is a small luxury inn featuring 30 beautifully appointed rooms and suites both in its antebellum mansion and in eight outbuildings positioned throughout the property’s 26 acres. Built by John Hankinson in 1818, Monmouth was returned to its antebellum magnificence by its current owners, Ron and Lani Riches. Each room has been decorated with the style and luxury of the antebellum period – some antiques are even original to Monmouth – and many offer working fireplaces and Jacuzzi tubs.
Additional accomodation
Le Richelieu Hotel
New Orleans, Louisiana
Itinerary
New Orleans French Quarter,
2 nts Courtyard Hotel
176 miles to Natchez,
2 nts Monmouth Plantation
155 miles to Greenwood,
1nt Bridgewater B&B
155 miles to Memphis,
2 nts The Bridgewater House
210 mile to Nashville,
2 nts The Brentwood
135 miles to Chattanooga,
2 nts The Mayors Mansion
120 Miles to Atlanta Airport
Highlights
New Orleans
Birthplace of Jazz and familiar as the backdrop to numerous films New Orleans continues to be a vibrant and fascinating city.
Natchez
Shimmering with antebellum grace Natchez was once the capital of Mississippi.
Memphis
On a crossroads where people, ideas and culture have met and mixed. The setting for many a John Grisham book and film and home to Graceland.
Nashville
Nashville is known the world over as ‘Music City’, but in the USA it is also known as ‘The Athens of the South’ because of its rich culture and its universities and colleges.
Atlanta
A cosmopolitan city, the capital of the south, with a charming blend of old southern traditions and modern lifestyle. With many museums and other attractions.
Natchez Trace Parkway
A scenic two lane road following the path of Indians and trappers of the past with many historic sites along the way.
The Great River Road
Scenic drive follwing the Mississippi River.
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