Mad city, different space -time.LAS Vegas - iDNES.cz

We went to Las Vegas without the support of the travel agency.We spent a few days and then set out to explore the American West.

An unforgettable experience is the night arrival to Las Vegas.The glow of neon is absolutely fascinating and the memory will be as deep as the surprise as the whole city is large.

Most of us only realize the scenes from films set in the center of the famous "strip".This is called the main promenade.Others are hidden.

But there is nothing to care about, because the "well -known" Las Vegas is just the main promenade of the Las Vegas Boulevard with huge hotel complexes, behind which are pubs and motels of lower levels, as well as warehouses, corporate settlements and residential houses extending to the adjacent desert.

About one of the typical features of Las Vegas does not mention the travel guide.There is an incredible number of people at every step at any time of day and night.

Looking at the main promenade in Las Vegas called Strip.

A city that never sleeps

Our arrival and crowds of people at the airport, through which we barely pushed ourselves to pick up luggage, certainly did not indicate time much after midnight.

It wasn't different even when picking up a car from the rental, in operation on the road and definitely on the strip before the third in the night.And everywhere in sight of playing machines - on every corner from the airport hall through the petrol pumps, bars to hotels.

We are in Las Vegas, in the world famous center of entertainment, gambling and everything that is strictly forbidden in other places.

With our own eyes we saw the truth of words that vegas never sleep.The hotel casino was full and gaming vending machines were also largely occupied.

There are no windows in the gaming rooms and the environment is the same for 24 hours.We felt we had barely two hours in the playroom and we spent twice the time there.

As the night does not end, almost all tourists are surprised.Time for vending machines and roulette flies incredibly fast.Then you can easily get out of the night's casino instead of the night until late in the morning.

There are no windows in the casinos and you will quickly lose an overview of time.

The size is definitely going

Las Vegas is half in daylight.Not boring or ordinary.But what you perceive in the dark will change completely during the daytime.

Each hotel complex is huge.It can't be overlooked, it's like a different world, nothing you have seen and experienced, it can't be equal to it.

When we passed MGM Grand hotels and headed to Las Vegas Boulevard, where all similar hotels are next to each other, we suddenly realized what the size was about.What is the whole vegas about.

Looking at the famous promenade, which is an ordinary eight to twelve jet traffic artery across the city from south to north, you will be in vain looking for cozy city centers you know from the old continent.

A little adrenaline outside the casino - a view in an area at a height of 300 meters above the ground.It is called Insanity - The Ride, the "Madies' Ride".

A village in the middle of the desert and its wildest development

The whole vegas is extraordinary and since its inception.Had it not been for the construction of the Hoover Dam This village in the desert would probably never reach today's famous.

When the workers on the Colorado River began in 1931, the Nevada authorities again legalized gambling.Hard -working men wanted to have fun and even more capitalized money.

The brothels with casinos served as a welcome diversification of building workers.Rumors about wild entertainment, parties and slightly earned money spread by America.

HOOVER DAMAGE ON THE RUNER COLORADO

Popularity grew as fast as the number of permanent population.At the beginning of the century there were only a few thousand, in the 1950s more than 50,000.And to this day is the growth of the population more than five hundred percent.

Bugsy Siegel, despite the initial skeptic of the underworld, felt the power of growing Las Vegas and opened Mafia Hotel Flamingo in 1946.

In 1975 the income of the Nevada Games of Games exceeded a billion dollars and this is not only the desert and Las Vegas.

In the autumn of 1989, the Mirage Hotel was inaugurated with 3039 hotel rooms.In the summer of 1990 followed the opening of the entire Excalibur Hotel complex.Was the largest in the world at the time, offering 4032 rooms.

In 1993, Hotels Luxor, Treasure Island and MGM Grand were added, whose 5005 rooms are the head of the largest hotel resorts in the world.And casinos revenue climbed to the border of six billion dollars.

This list could be continued to the present.Of the twenty largest hotels in the US, seventeen stand in Las Vegas.

And it's not just about the size itself.For example, the amount of investment in the construction of the Bellagio Hotel with three thousand rooms was around $ 1.7 billion in 1995.Every room cost over half a million dollars.

With averageness, no one gets anywhere in the vegas.This kitsch and eccentricity next to gambling attracts more and more tourists.According to official data, about 40 million now come here every year.

By comparison - in 2006, just over 100 million tourists came to the Czech Republic, says the Ministry for Regional Development.

Everyone on Las Vegas attracts something different, but very often it is curiosity or just a desire to see it.When in 1997 he opened his door to the public New York - New York Hotel, came to the casino the first day to see an incredible hundred thousand people.This suggests what strength and potency of the market this place has.

New York Hotel Hotel - New York Hotel

Entertainment in the first place

In Vegas you can be a week and you will not be bored.At an average length of stay of three and a half days you cannot make a visit to all attractions.

I do not mean the number of Mexicans who give you cards on the street offering the services of escorts and attract you to striptease.

There are a plethora of exhibitions, shops, restaurants and sports grounds, including golf areas, and a number of night performances and bars.Or you can just wander after a strip between the hotel complexes and intertwine.

Very often you will not resist the astonishment above the way the individual complexes are built.For example, Hotelvenetian (Venetian).It is built in a copy of true Venice with channels inside the entire complex, including singing gondoliers on reduced replicas Gondol or SV Square.Mark.

All building elements are made up so that their structure falls out just like centuries old material.Just like in true Venice.

What you must not miss is the Stratosphere Tower tower at the hotel of the same name.There's one of the ten fastest lifts in the world.

But this is the smallest adrenaline on the whole tower.X-Scream is a really crazy experience.Overload 4G, centrifugal carousel or firing into space with transport - all on the tower more than 300 meters above the ground with a prospect of all vegas.

Adrenaline attractions at the Stratosphere Hotel

Looking at the entire Las Vegas area is breathtaking from the tower.All those huge hotels, strip, airport, desert and mountains create a fascinating mosaic.

Equally fascinating is a romantic dinner in a rotating restaurant inside the tower.Evening menu for two people for $ 150 is within reach.All you need is timely reservation and appropriate clothing.

With sunset begins to wake up.Most restaurants and bars open, casinos are filled and performances in individual hotels are going.

Each larger hotel has its cultural pearl and many are known throughout the world. Například bílí tygři v představení Siegfried & Roy, kouzelnická vystoupení Davida Copperfielda, koncerty Prince nebo Toni Braxton.

The organization of world sports and cultural events is very popular.In MGM Grand Arena, Madonna performed and competed for the title of the World Box Champion.

Casino - this is a mandatory visit

At first looking at the playroom, everyone must think of being lost here.There are dozens of tables with black jack, roulette and dice and dozens of slot machines.

Casinos are much larger than we know them from TV.Each has its own character that easily dies deep under the skin.

Carpet on the ground, chirp of people and tokens, typical odor and rotation of slot machines.Just pull out dollars and sit down at the table.

Thoughts of winning are very strong but hold in hand tokens Bellagio, bet and play them so exciting that losing property can be very fast.But who was in Vegas and did not play, as if he wasn't here!

Nevada desert all around

If you are looking for a diverse nature, the Nevada and especially Las Vegas is not the right place.But there are many unique national parks within reach, for example in California, where you can comfortably reach.

West of the city border is on the mountains of Red Rock Canyon.Beautiful and unique massif red rocks that attract for walks and trips.

Red Rock Canyon

Southeast of the city is the Hoover dam.Despite its old age, it is an amazing building that tame the Colorado River.It is also very guarded in fear of a terrorist attack, after which Colorado would flood the whole area including the city of sin.

We went through the dam on the way to the Grand Canyon, which is about 6 hours of drive.In Vegasi you can also order sightseeing flights over the canyon or organized trips with a little adventure.

Shopping, shopping, shopping

Las Vegas is exceptional in every direction.Opponents of the consumer lifestyle, however, will not feel good here.

Vegas is a huge money factory.The city wants you to enjoy.It gives you a number of opportunities to enjoy but want money back to your cash register.

Everything here works with the only goal - entertain people and earn it.More than ten years ago, the local town hall invested $ 13 million to beautify the city.It cost so much to plant 76,000 palm trees, shrubs and flowers and other equipment.

You will also find several unique worlds.When wandering through the city at almost every step you come across something worth mentioning.

For example, you can look for places known from famous films - Danny's partners after a film robbery stood at a thousand fountains of the Bellagio Hotel.Mike Tyson baked a piece of ear Evander Holyfield in 1997 in front of 16,000 spectators in MGM Grand.

Or take a picture of the world -renowned "Welcome to Fabulouz Las Vegas" on the southern edge of Las Vegas Boulevard.It is a symbol of the city since 1956.

One of the symbols of Las Vegas - a Las Vegas Boulevard eyebrow

You should not miss the LUXOR Hotel Light cone, which produces 12 xenon lamps, each for $ 1200.It's one of the three creations of a human hand visible from space.

The city of sin that never sleeps offers breathtaking experiences in every respect.You never forget Sin City.