Off to Vegas to-day via the beautiful Mojave Desert.
We are leaving at 5am to catch the Metro to China Town then by bus to Las Vegas for a 4 hour tour of the spots of interest, then to bed as we have to be up again at 5 am to go to the Grand Canyon at 5.10 am.
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| At the Red line Metro at 5am...headed for Chinatown and the bus to Vegas. |
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| The bus which will take us on tour for 3 days to Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam and Vegas... |
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| The beautifully rugged Mojave Desert, a very spiritual area even from the bus. I was quite moved by this area.... |
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| Just like in the movies, only now the horse has been replaced by the truck... |
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| A potty stop halfway to Vegas... |
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| This says it all. The America we see in movies is real... |
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| This Mojave desert is just so very beautiful... |
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| Coming into Vegas... |
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| More of Vegas from the bus... |
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| Our hotel we are staying at for 2 nights...See the tower spike...There's a roller coaster drop up and down on that thing! |
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| On safe ground inside the Hotel/Casino, the Stratosphere... |
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| The view from our 17th floor room... |
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Our triple share room before we unpacked to go on a 4 hr Vegas by night tour...
The following pics were taken by Val as I got lost in the hotel before we went and had no time to go back and collect my camera for the night tour. So I missed out on taking my own shots. Moonika (the tall one)is going to help out by sending me some of her shots to use later also. |
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| Waiting for the water show in Vegas at the first stop off...The ?...hotel casino |
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| The fabulous hourly water show for free... |
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| This water show went for about 10 minutes to the music from Chicago...All that Jazz. |
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| As Catherine Zeta Jones sang ..."All that jazz", the water danced sideways...awesome! |
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| ...and all that jazz...again! With the Eiffel Tower Restaurant in the background. |
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| The final mighty blast upwards... |
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| Inside the next Casino hotel foyer... |
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| This one has the ceiling made of glass flowers at $2,000 a piece! |
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| These places are big and expensive looking but lack depth of character... |
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| Val and Moonika (the tall one) under the glass flower ceiling... |
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| The next Casino had a volcano that rumbled and roared and burst into erupting flames and plumes of smoke and heat... |
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| ooops...this is the volcano before it erupted! |
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| The volcano again... |
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| The candles in the lake are on the same technology as the ones in Phantom... |
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| Inside The Venetian, the only one I can remember name of. It was beautiful and had so much peace, style and character... |
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| Obviously, there had to be gondolas! |
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| Picture perfect... |
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| Then we went to the site of the original LasVegas...this is a live girl sitting on a bar! |
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| A great mural on a Casino wall... |
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| Inside the mall where the old Vegas was... |
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| This is a laser concert projected on the inside of the ceiling dome of this huge building with over 200 cameras. The noise was deafening, but the crowds loved it. |
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| Bon Jovi concert excerpts projected all over the curved ceiling...Amazing. |
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| Dancing with something that wandered by... |
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| Going back to the hotel after a huge day and the end of our 4hr $25 optional tour of 4 of the top hotels of the world. |
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