Las Vegas, the city of poker and card games
At the heart of the desert of Nevada, lost in an arid and dusty gravel, sand rises like a mirage City Thursday Mirage, as this oasis is nothing the island of serenity and calm that you Expects A stop in a desert: on the contrary there is that any frenzy, palpitation, restlessness. Mirage, because everything is appearance, sulfide, temptation, luxury, and excessive rowdiness. Mirage finally, because the city of all sins seems to be realizing your desires wildest and most undeclared, and that have been created to satisfy the thirst of all souls in search of pleasures.
The activities are legion in this Mecca of entertainment. If you are a fan of green carpet and slot machines and you are aged over 21 years, you’ll be more than served in Las Vegas. Indeed, the biggest hotel-casinos in the world there, and a profusion of casinos of all kinds. Roulette, baccarat, poker games, rail, black jack, craps, but also slot machines, bingo, keno, betting, here are … and break fortunes, melt and explode all the portfolios of adrenaline players. To the rhythm of clicking chips and slot machines, amateurs and professionals will take Thursday.
Las Vegas, the largest city of the state capital of Nevada and Clark County, located in a desert basin surrounded by mountains. The average temperature is around 20 ° C. Mercury sometimes flirts with 50 ° C, there is warmth, which urges more passions. The sun is up residence most of the year, more precisely 315 days on 365 and the evening is relayed by thousands of neon lights that make the night even more hectic than during the day.
Its area which is 340 km ² home to nearly 560 000 people, a little less than two million if one takes into account the suburbs, without considering the millions of visitors who urge every year. The city never ceases to grow and expand. A proof, the biannual update of the directory of Las Vegas.
Highly prized destination, the city of temptations is the city that collects the most hotel rooms and conference in the world. It derives its economy mainly on tourism, casinos, catering, hospitality, and entertainment performances there. Of the 23 best hotels in the world, Las Vegas has 19. The international airport Mc Carran dessert, but you can also access by road (Interstate 15, U.S. Route 95 and U.S. Route 93) or the railroad (Union Pacific).
When the Mormons created the city of Las Vegas in 1855, they had to be a thousand miles to imagine that she would become the world capital of entertainment. One that was in the early twentieth century hamlet a simple farm begins to initiate a 360 degree turn occurs when the train Continental, the liberalization of divorce and marriage in Nevada, especially the legalization of gambling and of prostitution.
Many casinos began to flourish, standing out by their giant illuminated multicolored. Some casino hotels giants will then emerge from 1946, investments behind which there is sometimes personalities such as the Mafia Bugsy famous founder of no less famous Flamingo.
Soon Las Vegas enters the legend as the temple of the game, then the world champion of show business and boxing. The megalomania and hubris seized the city where successive projects the most incredible and luxurious, and where the parade’s most famous stars, from King to Celine Dion. It is however noted that since 1989, Las Vegas takes a different direction by expanding its customer base to target the whole family.