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Monday, January 22, 2007

Las Vegas City Tours

Las Vegas is one of the major holiday destinations of the world and is the largest city of Nevada. This city has a huge list of attractions and is popular especially for its casinos, the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, and Lake Mead. There are a number of tours arranged for tourists to experience the real feel of Las Vegas. Most of these tours head towards the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam, as the former is known as a natural wonder of the world whereas the latter is amongst the seven civil engineering wonders of America. Hence, most tourists normally prefer to visit these places, as they are regarded as world famous monuments. Apart from these tours, there are various other tours such as Las Vegas city tours, which take the tourists to places where the locals live, work, and play. These city tours give travelers a chance to learn about the history and origin of this city.

Like all other tours Las Vegas city tours too offer free pick up and drop facility to the tourists from their hotels. These tours provide air-conditioned 40 passenger buses in order to give the tourists the required comfort throughout the 4-5 hours tour. These tours generally cover the entire Las Vegas strip, downtown, wedding chapel row and Fremont Street, where this magical city started and hence is known as the "Original Vegas." The tourists can enjoy the magnificent light show at Fremont Street powered by millions of lights along with the rocking live music performance by an Elvis Presley impersonator at the Elvis Museum. These tours also take their clients to the most popular casinos of the city, mega resorts that house restaurants known all over the world, excellent shopping promenades, canals, pirate ships, and volcanoes.

There are various guides that accompany the tourists in the Las Vegas city tours to entertain them with narrations of the past, present, and the future of Las Vegas. The tourists can also walk along the Heritage Street where a number of actual historic homes and other important buildings have been restored and discover the rich and colorful history of the Southern Nevada by visiting the Clark County Museum.