Pirates Of The Caribbean begins in the Blue Bayou, at street level of New Orleans Square.
 
Crickets chirp and fireflies flicker. At an antebellum manor house, guests dine amid true Southern hospitality at the Blue Bayou Terrace.
 
 
After drifting quietly through the lagoon, the passenger boats pass under a series of archways.
"Ye come seekin' adventure and salty olde pirates, eh?" a ghostly voice queries. "Sure, and ye've
come to the proper place...." Suddenly, the boats plunge down a 50-foot 'waterfall,' into the caverns
beneath the French Quarter streets.
"Keep yer ruddy hands inboard. That be the best way to repel boarders!"

The biggest part of Pirates Of The Caribbean is below New Orleans Square. There are extensive caverns, where the skeletal remains

 of pirates past carouse and stand ghostly guard over their ancient treasure.

This is a 'cutaway' view of the cavern area, directly below the Blue Bayou. It shows the positions of

the two downramps- the waterfalls- and the upramp, which brings the boats back up to street level.

This is an overview of the Main Show Building, minus the walls, of course. Anyone who's taken

this cruise will know, I've made no attempt to model the good citizens of El Tesoro or the

marauding pirates; this is merely the setting of the ride, and far from complete.

Emerging from the caverns, passengers are caught in a fierce gun-battle between the 'Wicked Wench'

and the fortress of El Tesoro, but the Spanish soldiers are no match for the wacky pirates.

Soon the town is overrun.

Safely through the battle, the bateaux drift into the city's system of canals.

Here, some of the townfolk, still in their nightshirts, have been taken captive. Carlos the Mayor is being dunked in the

town well, ordered to reveal where the city's treasure is hidden. Upstairs, his wife frantically urges him not to tell the secret!

One enterprising pirate has organized an auction and is selling off maidens, as brides for his lonely shipmates!

Passing under a bridge, the boats enter another part of the town.

In this moonlit part of town, some of the pirates try to catch their own ladies... and one healthy lass, to catch a man!

In the newest version of Pirates Of The Caribbean, Captain Jack Sparrow has been added to some of

the scenes, including this one, and the pirates, tired of shipboard fare, are trying to steal the girls' food.

But the real devastation is around the next bend.

The Pirates have set El Tesoro on fire!

"Yo ho... a pirate's life for me!"

Through an archway and the boats enter the dungeon.

A few of the pirates have landed in jail, where fire rages all around.

After this, there is one last scene, the Arsenal, before the boats find their way

upward, back to the elegance of nineteenth-century New Orleans.