Avery Island, Louisiana - Tabasco Factory and Giant Buddha
- Address:
- 1 Main Rd, Avery Island, LA
- Directions:
- Take Lafayette/US Hwy. 90 exit (Exit 103) from I-10. Follow US Hwy. 90 through US 90 exit at New Iberia onto Hwy 14 (Center St.) north, toward town. Less than a mile north, turn right (south) onto Hwy 329 (Allen Rd). Stay on 329 south for several miles until you reach Avery Island.
- Phone:
- 337-365-8173
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Avery Island, Louisiana - Tabasco Factory and Jungle Gardens The only place where tabasco sauce is made and
exported worldwide. Although not an island in the "Gilligan's Island" sense,
the land qualifies for the name thanks to what looks to be a drainage ditch
that one could probably hop over.
But the real attraction, assuming you're not all that hot for tabasco sauce history, is the Jungle Gardens, next to the historic peppermill. Here you drive your car through multitudinous acres of lush, tropical beauty that contains a bird sanctuary, alligator filled lakes, and the oddest thing of all, a gigantic statue of Buddha that oversees a nutria-filled lake. (Supposedly a gift to E. A. McIlhenny, the Tabasco King.) A couple of lovely gift shops are on hand to take your tourist money, but the Tabasco brand pepper sauce factory tours are free.
There are also tours of the tabasco factory during the week, but I went on the weekend and don't know how much it costs. Best time to go is fall or spring as temperatures get mighty hot during the summer in these parts. [Keath Graham, 10/28/2000]
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