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Sphinx, Las Vegas, USA

The Luxor casino, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Las Vegas, the USA's premier gambling resort, is not at all the sleazy dump that it used to be. Money-sucking, yes. Hot, yes. Overlit, yes. Full of hustlers, pimps and thieves? Well, not so obviously...
In fact the new millennium Vegas, in other words The Strip - which is not actually officially named The Strip but Las Vegas Boulevard, seems as much about extracting $$$ through entertainment as through the roulette wheel or one-arm bandit. The shows are terrific, among the best in the world, ranging from humour to hard rock to magic to schmaltz, but ticket prices are accordingly high.

Las Vegas Boulevard, USA

The Strip - actually named Las Vegas Boulevard - featuring New York, New York and a distant Eiffel Tower.

The trick in Las Vegas is to enjoy the amazing exteriors by day and night, to avoid the generally crass interiors and to find the free shows that casinos use to drag the punters in their direction.
Las Vegas is also an excellent jumping-off point for a trip around the Grand Circle of SW USA's sensational National Parks. Hire a car, Harley or RV there and do a two or three week loop, starting with Zion Canyon and ending with the Grand Canyon, or vice versa.

Las Vegas, Venice USA

The Strip, with the stunningly convincing Venice replica at The Venetian.

street lights, Las Vegas, USA

But of course it's at night that Las Vegas really shines; this is the lower Strip, and this is...

Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas, USA

...the Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas, another dazzling example of Vegas creativity, a shopping mall with a canopy that is 90 ft [27 m] high and four blocks long [1,500 ft [460 m] and regularly projects extraordinary concerts and light shows to drag the tourists away from the uptown nightime attractions such as....

Las Vegas pirate ship, USA

...Treasure Island's big production pirate battle, typically dramatic and expansive but at the same time the actual casino is typically disappointing, with desperately styless, slot-machine-overdose interior.

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