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(Las Vegas, NV, USA)



Viva Las Vegas! This famous Nevada city is home to bright neon lights, busy casinos, the famous Las Vegas Strip, enormous hotels, numerous wedding chapels, lively nightlife, an average of 315 days of sunshine each year and many impressive tourist attractions. Where else can you get married in the world without even leaving your car, or by a priest dressed as Elvis Presley?!

There is so much more to Las Vegas than just casinos and wedding chapels are there are numerous Las Vegas tourism and tourist information offices in and around the Las Vegas Strip. These Las Vegas tourism and tourist information offices provide useful tourism and tourist information, such as information about Las Vegas tourist attractions, landmarks, restaurants, travel, maps, Las Vegas casino information, sightseeing and general city tourism and tourist information.




Accommodation in Las Vegas is incredibly varied and many resorts are simply vast and replicate actual famous cities from around the world. Although there are an enormous number of hotels in Las Vegas, including 9 of the 10 largest hotels in the world, more than half a million tourists stay in Las Vegas every week and so Las Vegas accommodation gets booked up fast. Advance hotel reservations in Las Vegas are not advisable, they are essential.

The Las Vegas Strip is a wide avenue that runs through the center of Las Vegas and is lined with most of the city's largest hotel casinos and tourist attractions. Some of the top tourist attractions in Las Vegas include the Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat - a tropical paradise with white tigers, elephants and dolphins, the Speed Roller Coaster at the Las Vegas Cyber Speedway - with speeds of up to 70 miles-per-hour, the Las Vegas Motor Speedway is located in north Las Vegas and features a major racing circuit, and the Paris / Las Vegas Eiffel Tower - a half size replica of the famous Eiffel Tower at the themed Paris-Las Vegas casino, where it is possible to get married at the top, surrounded by spectacular views across Las Vegas. The incredible Hoover Dam is also located close to Las Vegas and is often described as one of the 'seven wonders of the world'. More information on Las Vegas Tourist Attractions.

Everything in America is big, but in Las Vegas, everything is huge, including hotels, resorts, shopping malls and the legendary Las Vegas casinos, which are simply vast. Some of the Las Vegas casinos have literally thousands of slot machines and many hundreds of card tables. Several of the buildings in Las Vegas hold world records, such as the Stratosphere Tower at Las Vegas Boulevard South, which is home to the word's highest roller coaster and also America's fastest elevator, and the Castaways Hotel and Bowling Center, which is the largest tenpin bowling alley in the world, boasting 106 bowling alleys.

There are also many excellent museums in Las Vegas, providing interesting information on the history of Las Vegas and many other exhibitions. Some of the major museums in Las Vegas include King Tut's Tomb and Museum - featuring a reproduction of the famous tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamen, the Elvis Museum - crammed full of Elvis Presley memorabilia and situated just off the Las Vegas strip, and numerous excellent Las Vegas art galleries as well.

Las Vegas has been immortalized in many Hollywood films, such Elvis Presley's 'Viva Las Vegas' (1964), Sean Connery's 'Overcoming all Odds' (1971) and Nicholas Cage's 'Honeymoon in Vegas' (1992). There are few cities in the world that compare to the truly outstanding Las Vegas restaurants and top cuisine, Las Vegas shopping facilities and the simply awesome Las Vegas entertainment. Las Vegas has probably produced more instant millionaires than any other city and is worth visiting, whatever the time of year.

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More Las Vegas Information / Fast Facts and Orientation

• Country: USA
• Location: Clark County, Nevada (NV)
• Status: city, county seat
• Area: 50 square miles / 127 square kilometers
• Population: 785,000
• Language: American English
• Currency: US Dollar (USD)
• Time zone: GMT - 8 hours Pacific Standard Time (daylight saving time is observed)
• Country dialing code: +1
• Telephone area code: 702
• Religion: various religions
• Electricity: 110 volts AC, 50 Hz - flat two-pin plugs or third round pin are used
• Average daily January temperature: 16ºC / 61ºF
• Average daily July temperature: 42ºC / 108ºF

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