September 5th, 2014
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
VEGAS!
What can you say about this awesome city that haven’t been told yet?
Well I can say, but it won’t be about how awesome it is…
What I had in mind when we approached the city was, what Ima, which is a Geography teacher told me: “Las Vegas is surrounded with trailer lots, where the minimal wage workers of the hotels are living”.
There were no trailers lots, but the small crowded houses in the suburbs are not a such a better replacement.
Vegas strip is an amazing place – take the human race achievements in building and squeeze it into such a small area. The problem that I have been to almost all those places and one important thing I have learned is that part of visiting the building is the area around it. Taking the building from its natural environment taking some of the experience.
And as big and impressive those replicas are, those are replicas. Someone built it before probably with a less advanced technology – so what’s the point?
But people come to Vegas, not for those replicas, not to think of the poor workers and not to think how this is all a big fake. They come to enjoy. And I guess that I just don’t the kind of man to enjoy Vegas =) with all those lights, shows, alcohol, whores and weapons (I am a marry man with a woman that got sick)….but I can still enjoy the Hoover Dam!
Take Care
Gad
P.S.
Vegas somehow remind me Jericho. A city in the middle of the desert with a casino… But the differences between those cities are to big to describe…=)
New York City Hotel in Vegas
Vegas strip from our hotel suite.
Our hotel, The Treasure Island and the ship for the entertainment show (It was closed when we were there =/ )
The Ventian hotel.
The Mirage hotel and the fountains.
The Ceaser hotel.
The Bellagio hotel from inside and outside and the Bellagio Fountains – That is something I enjoyed watching =)
The look from Bellagio Balcony
Hoover Dam! =O
Hoover Dam hydro-electric power planet. Except controlling the floods, the dam also produce a great amount of electricity.
Inside one of Hoover Dam’s tunnel.
Terrazzo floor in Hoover Dam electric power turbine hall. It was made in 1930’s and still look better than many other Terrazzo floor that probably were built many years later.
Hoover Dam electric power turbine hall – so big! and imagine there is another hall on the other side of the Colorado River!
The time on Nevada side of the Dam.
The women’s toilet sign – The all architecture reminds the Empire State Building
Arizona! we marked a V on another state!
The new visitors center on Nevada side.
The water entrance towers on Arizona side.
US flag over the Hoover Dam.
A grave for a dog that the workers adopted in the construction site.
The new bypass bridge, till it was built, the way to cross the Colorado river and the canyon was on the top of the Dam. What amazing about that bridge was that it an arch that was built simulationtly from both sides and was hanged till it completion on cables.
The Lake behind the Dam =)
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