What to do in Las Vegas outside and inside the casinos, what not to miss and where to go to have the most beautiful view of the whole city, some tips also for the Stratophere and Fremont Street.
It always comes to Las Vegas from the desert: km and km of stones, low vegetation and hot wind.
Even if reaching it in broad daylight does not grant the sparkling view that one usually expects, one instantly falls in love, as in a fairy tale, with this babelic and centripetal place.
Vegas in return asks you to live it as a game and to be amazed by everything it allows you to see and feel.
So after you have packed your bags in one of the many hotel-casinos you can compile a wish list and go out on the street. Difficult to describe the Strip: it is a world of its own that totally changes from day to night. During the day it could also be a city like any other, it is the night that twists and twists you completely. A concentration of lights, sounds, noises, amazing pieces from other cities.
You can drink drinks by the pool or leaning against the counter of a bar, racing on a roller coaster in New York. You can go shopping in the most absurd and eccentric stores, climb the Eiffel Tower. You can see the Bellagio fountains dance, take part in extraordinary shows or volcanic eruptions. But above all you can throw yourself into gaming fever between slot machines and green tables.
So you realize that Vegas, which is made up of dichotomies, splits in half: inside and outside casinos.
Hordes of tourists outside ready to photograph every oddity. Inside, slightly animated by music, the realm of players. The only sounds allowed, the intriguing ones of the slots, the humming coming from the caravans and the rustling of the chips moved to make or raise the bets.
The rest are just the bored, attentive or intrigued faces of the players who juggle the various labyrinthine environments in which you still have to become familiar and where they seem to be born. And if dream hotels, pyramids, he asked for flash wedding, dancers and beautiful Elvis copies, they've got you tired you can go back to the desert road and look for the Hoover Dam.
One of the largest dams in the world, located on the border between Nevada and Arizona, allows the approach of an enchanting natural landscape to the ingenuity of man so dynamic and invasive. The eyes are lost in the distances and depths. You can walk on the parapet of the dam, noting how the Colorado is lowering, you can visit the small museum and the turbine room.
Back on the street of Las Vegas, before diving back into the pool or the bustling Strip, an excellent solution to occupy the time is that of shopping; the unbridled one among the best international brands. The city is surrounded by Outelt, which are truly Outelt. Be careful because the risk is that of having to buy an additional suitcase to go home. But in Vegas, everything is allowed. No ?
Two other weird experiences that Vegas offers are Stratophere e Fremont Street.
Let's start with the second. This street is located in the dowtown and is a sight of lights, colored lasers and sounds projected on the enormous artificial vault surrounded by kitsch shops, imitators, dancers. Here the casinos stand still in time and belong to the old and smoky Las Vegas of the 40s.
There you can find everything: in a corner a rock concert, 10 steps after disco music, even more hip hop crew. And it is there that you can truly become familiar with roulette by discovering little secrets, relying on the unwritten, but recommended, laws of probability, and betting many times on black.
The Stratosphere instead is one of the more decentralized hotels of the Strip, but it has a great peculiarity: no one can miss its tower with attached adrenaline funfair.
First you go up 108 floors in a flash and you find yourself observing Las Vegas in its immensity. It is the highest vantage point in the city. And then, if you are really brave, try the great rides suspended in the air. The names already speak for themselves, Insanity e Big shot.
