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If you've never visited Louisiana, you don't yet know what
the good life is. When it comes to feasting and revelry, Louisiana
wins hands-down. The Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival is no
exception.
In 1959, the little city of Breaux Bridge, just outside of
Lafayette in Cajun Country, threw a shindig to celebrate its
centennial anniversary. Its success inspired the Crawfish
Festival the following year. 40 years later, the Breaux Bridge
Crawfish Festival has grown from a local event to a considerable
gala attracting over 25,000 people annually. The event provides
heaps of crawfish, Cajun culture, activities suitable for
the whole family.
The festival is also famous for attracting Zydeco bands from
around the world. Dozens of bands play on three stages throughout
the afternoons and well into the night.
You'll also find arts and crafts, including every kind of
wacky crawfish wearable you can imagine, as well as cottage
industry foodstuffs, plenty of souvenirs, and even furniture.
The fun doesn't stop when you leave the festival gates. In
the afternoon and evening, folks cruise the main drag in front
of the park at a snail's pace, and many of the porches and
yards along the way are festooned with crawfish decorations
and satiny banners of past crawfish queens.
Partial view of the festival from the Ferris wheel.
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