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Las Vegas an overview
People know Las Vegas for its fine dining, great gambling places, major resorts and full of entertainment. This should never be understood by the information provided that Vegas don't have a serious side - billions are at stake all the time on tables and mega-resorts. At the same time it is growing fast as most popular retirement and family city.
Las Vegas was established in 1905 but officially became city in the year 1911. Las Vegas is the 28th most populous city in USA with an estimated population of 603, 093 as of 2008. The estimated population of Las Vegas metropolitan area as of 2007 was 1, 836, 333.
Understanding the Geography & Climate
Las Vegas is situated on the arid desert; the surrounding environment is dominated by desert vegetation and wild life. The city is in a basin surrounded by dry mountains and the Spring Mountains lie to the west side of the city. City is at 2030 feet or 620 meters height from the sea level.
Not much to discuss the climate of the city is desert climate, you can enjoy the abundant sunlight year-round and has more than 300 sunshine days every year, with very less rainfall. In summer temperature can go up to 38 C or 100 F and during winter it can dip to 0 C or 32 F. If you are visiting Vegas during winters be cautious of snow fall, rare but possible during December.
Major Attraction in City
The major attractions in Las Vegas are the casinos from a long time. All the famous casino hotels can be found on Las Vergas Boulevard or well known as Las Vegas Strip. Advised sights to see while in Vegas are:
- Bellagio casino: Inside the casino you can see an amazing flower garden, fine art gallery and you can have finest buffet. During evening the fountains of the Bellagio perform a magnificent display set to the music in every 15-20 minutes.
- Flamingo Garden: Popular garden for flamingo and other exotic birds.
- MGM Grand Lion Habitat: Worth to visit for a closer look of Lions.
- Mirage Hotel: In front of casino almost every hour in the evening you can see volcano eruption in a terrific light show.
- Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay Hotel: Highlight is a walk through the transparent tunnel with sharks, sea turtles and fish on all sides.
- Star Trek Museum: Two well themed attractions with simulator rides and live actors in trek costumes. Walk through museum serves as the queue to the attraction.
- Las Vegas Chinatown Plaza: An amazing place to experience Chinese culture.
- Mountain Activities:
- Rock Climbing
- Day hiking
- skiing
- Mountain Biking
Preferred Restaurants on the strip
- AJ's Steakhouse
- Craft steak
- Cyprus street Market Place
- Kahunaville
- Mesa Grill
- The Range Steak House
Further Reference: Las Vegas Resort Hotels | Hotel Las Vegas Map
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I was ask to take a look at that map and list the name of the Hotel that is located across the street from Planet Hollywood hotel.
-I told that it was the Monte Carlo Hotel. apparently they say that is not correct. any suggestion?
Then i was ask to name two hotels on either side of New York New York. (one on left, and one on right)
- I listed Orleans and the MGM Grand.. was also told that it was wrong. Am i seeing something different here?
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Anyone know where I can find a Las Vegas map of all the casinos and what type of roulette tables they have?
For instance European or American roulette wheels, table minimums and maximums and anything else you may know regarding playing roulette in various casinos. Thanks.
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