{"id":3771,"date":"2014-03-05T13:52:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juliachou.fr\/trips\/usa-trips\/las-vegas-a-luxurious-oasis-in-the-middle-of-the-desert.html"},"modified":"2014-03-05T13:52:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:52:41","slug":"las-vegas-a-luxurious-oasis-in-the-middle-of-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juliachou.fr\/en\/usa-trips\/las-vegas-a-luxurious-oasis-in-the-middle-of-the-desert.html","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas : a luxurious oasis in the middle of the desert"},"content":{"rendered":"

I go very often to Long Beach, California. I tried several times to convince my Californian buddies Trent, Halle, Jon and the others to go to Vegas with me, but it has been a failure because because of their schedules. Then a few months ago, Michael told that he was available for going to Vegas, that I just had to let him know the dates. I thought “this is the right time !”<\/span><\/p>\n

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I was supposed to spend a few days in Long Beach, then we’d go on Friday, but we finally decided to go on Thursday. I was so excited. On Tuesday, Michael calls me and says “do you want us to go tomorrow ?” Yes ! I cancel all my plans (it’s not very kind, apologizes to Matt who I let down, that’ll be next time !) and here we are on our way to Nevada.<\/p>\n

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Besides the discovery of Las Vegas, I was very excited by the trip across the desert. I was already imagining the arid plains, the cactus and the flying brushwood as in westerns. When Michael found\u00a0 this hotel in the middle of the Mojave desert<\/a>, I jumped for joy !<\/p>\n

Well, actually I was a little disappointed by the surroundings on the road across the desert : the surroundings of the road are full with solar panels and other ugly things. However the hotel was a unique experience, and we were the only clients !<\/p>\n

\"Nipton\"<\/p>\n

In the evening, we ate at the little “restaurant” next to the hotel. A crackling fire, a mini-greenhouse in which they grow their own aromatic plants, an adorable waitress, I’m in heaven !<\/p>\n

The temperature at night was extremely low (I remember those who haven’t listened to the middle school teacher : desert climate means big temperature difference between day and night) about 2 or 3 Celsius degrees, which wasn’t encouraging to stay under the wonderful starry sky above us. I had never seen such a nice sky, not any cloud, no parasite light at tens of miles around, not any noise, a unique moment.<\/p>\n

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Our room looked totally different on the following day : a luxurious suite in <\/span>one of Vegas’ greatest hotels : the Palazzo<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Palazzo\"<\/p>\n

Everything is oversized and luxurious in Vegas, we go through a reconstituted Venice in the Venetian Hotel, and the Palazzo<\/a> bears well its name of palace. We could have spent the whole day enjoying our wonderful hotel room, but we had a big planning in Vegas.<\/p>\n

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For all the activities we planned, a limousine came and picked us up. Limousines in Vegas are like taxis in Paris, except the driver is very very polite, he smells good, he wears a tuxedo and there is a bar with champagne in the car. So it’s still much better than a taxi !<\/p>\n

\"Sappire2\"<\/p>\n

Our first stop of the trip is at a strip club, the Sapphire<\/a>. I didn’t really want to experience the night life or the casinos, but I was curious though to see what a strip club in Vegas looks like. First of all it’s very bling bling\/show off, there are dancers everywhere, much more than clients at the time we went there, probably too early in the evening.<\/p>\n

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We visit little private rooms overlooking the club, where you can see without being seen. To book the rooms, the prices are outrageous, more than $5000 per hour, to which should be added the price of the girls and the bottles of champagne.<\/p>\n

\"foundation_fin\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Vegas is a city that lives in the night, and all its lights make it absolutely magical when the night falls.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"shark<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m a huge fan of sharks so I wanted to visit the Shark Tank<\/a> (shark aquarium) and I liked it a lot because you can see the sharks very well, however, I don’t think it’s such a comfort for the sharks, I think that they have much more room at the Aquarium of Paris, where you can see nice specimen of sharks.<\/p>\n

\"shrimpsalad\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In Vegas, we barely had time to eat as we were running everywhere ! But, we found a very little sushi restaurant, right next to a tatoo shop<\/a>, where they make Californian salads, that’s awesome ! We ate there 2 consecutive evenings !<\/p>\n

\"ATL<\/a><\/p>\n

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We went to see the exhibition Bodies<\/a>, which was very interesting, showing how amazing the human bodie is. And I loved the little stuffed blood cell they sell in the shop at the end of the exhibition !<\/p>\n

In short, I loved Vegas and I hope I’ll get back there soon ! If you have good plans to give me for the next time, feel free !<\/p>\n

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I go very often to Long Beach, California. I tried several times to convince my Californian buddies Trent, Halle, Jon and the others to go to Vegas with me, but it has been a failure because because of their schedules. Then a few months ago, Michael told that he was available for going to Vegas,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa-trips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t