Some destinations are about culture; others about relaxation. Las Vegas is an attention deficit arena designed to douse its patrons with pure, distilled, exhilaration and ignite their senses. Lady Luck spirits the clocks from the casinos, doses the air-con with oxygen and massages the shoulders of gamblers as hours gently slide by unnoticed. Rollercoasters scream into the night. Daiquiris frost glasses, and beautiful women hustle. Straddling the strip like deities, showmen and singers grin from colossal billboards. All is light, colour, and movement. Part theme park, part circus, Las Vegas is best served over optimism, with a dash of humour and consumed with all the passion of a twenty four hour prognosis.
The hotels on the strip all have their theme. The Mirage channels old school Vegas. Modelled on paradise, its miniature volcano erupts to char the skyline, white tigers prowl
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