Interestingly, most famous and palatial Hotels on this Strip, are built based on various themes. They include Venetian, Bellagio, Trump Tower, MGM, and others. They queue up one after the other, each one clamoring for attention and admiration. Restaurants, Fountains, men/women selling “Show” brochures, replicas of Eiffel Tower, Venetian Grand Canal, Egyptian Pyramid, fill the “Strip”.

You see happy faces, exuberance, animal spirit filled all around. At Bellagio, an exceptionally synchronized Fountain Show is something that’s impossible to miss. It’s free for every passerby to watch.

Just like you, you find everyone else around too taking pictures of this beautiful water concert.

Importantly, you can move freely into any of these huge hospitality structures. With ubiquitous Casinos in each, you see myriad gambling aficionados, young to old; males, females; White, Black, glued to their slot machines or on gambling tables, happily, either splurging or adding dollars to their kitty. It is a fete to watch the scenario.

Replete of Shopping arcades, you can seamlessly pass through from the premises of one hotel to another to another without realizing until you see the décor of the roof change. You will notice, each hotel with beautifully designed however distinct and discernible roof above.

Being a non-gambler, you rarely could comprehend how one could play on these amusing machines. It is intriguing. Watching you watching these machines with intrigue, an elderly lady comes to your succor. Unfortunately, she has just lost all her money into one slot machine. Nevertheless she explains the working of that machine till you understand; albeit somewhat.

You then flung yourself into it and sit on this machine to try your luck. But sadly, the result was the same as the new teacher. You too loose the entire amount that you had earmarked for Gambling. Nonetheless, you get up happy, proudly saying to yourself, “Yes, even you can, and have gambled in Las Vegas”.