Viva Las Vegas
Trip Start
Jan 10, 2008
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59
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Trip End
Ongoing
Las Vegas,
Nevada,
United States
Friday, May 30, 2008
The first day in Vegas we booked a show for the night and then decided to check out some of the casinos on the Strip. We started at MGM Grand, here they have live lions on display. They have a purpose built enclosure that you can walk through and see the lions above or around you. Each day they have two blocks of time when the lions are available to see, they will have two lions in the enclosure during this time and then those two lions will be taken back to the lion farm nearby and two more lions will be brought to the enclosure, so that the lions are not on display all day and they are not displayed for too long in a day. It was amazing to be standing there and suddenly a lion is bounding above your head
cool visuals at Fremont Street
. We also had a walk through New York New York and Planet Hollywood. There is so much to see it can take a long time just to walk through one casino - that's before stoping to gamble!We managed to make it through 4 days in Vegas without a drink or any gambling! Only because we were too busy checking out all that we could see that we didn't have time to stop and think about anything else.
We saw a magic show the first night and enjoyed some of the amazing effects, on the way home we stopped to look at the dancing fountains in front of the Bellagio. Every half an hour the fountains are choreographed to dance in time with a song. It's a beautiful sight.
The second night we went to Fremont Street. Fremont Street is the area where the first casinos were set up before the Strip was there. The old casinos are still there and the street has been pedestrianised. Over the street the worlds biggest flat screen has been set up to and after dark a visual show plays on the screen above you - it's amazing to see the visuals go for 4 blocks.
