Friday 17 August 2012

Hoover Dam and Las Vegas


The final stage of our west coast portion of our trip is to go to Las Vegas to return the RV and have a look at “The Strip” the journey retraced some of our steps of Fridays hot journey fortunately a little lower temperatures but still hot. To get to Las Vegas we have to pass the Hoover Dam so a visit to the Dam and Lake Mead the Dam is certainly a good example of the architecture of its time we had lunch in the RV overlooking the dam and had a brief walk around the top of the dam but it was too hot to do too much walking.

From the dam we dropped down in to Las Vegas it is quite a sight to see this city sprawled out on the desert with the monster hotels of the strip sticking out like ice bergs in the sea. Having found our RV park at the back of “Circus Circus” Hotel and got parked up and services connected we took to the swimming pool to cool down and getting in to the water was certainly refreshing I have had colder baths. After finishing the last of our microwave meals and allowing the heat to go out of the day we went to explore the strip, it is amazing the ideas that have been used to tempt you in in order to separate you from your money.

Hoover Dam


Las Vegas rises from the desert


Just the odd Pyramid


Fountains at the Bellagio


Circus Circus

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