Viva Las Vegas!!! (Part 2)

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I have taken so many photos in Las Vegas that I decided to divide the photos into 2 parts. Las Vegas is simply amazing. Everywhere you go, you'll see something interesting and something that you want to capture with your camera. Every casino is a tourist attraction by itself and you can unknowingly take dozens of photos in one casino. At the end of my 2 days' stay in Las Vegas, I had taken over 600 photos! (Of course, I am not going to upload all the 600 photos. This will be madness. Instead, I have chosen the more beautiful and more interesting photos and upload them here... (Organising and sorting 600+ photos took me a long time. Some more, a new semester has started in my university and I'm getting busier and busier.) If you want to see more photos, please let me know (or better still, you should go to Las Vegas and experience the amazement yourself. Haha)

In part 1 (the previous post), I uploaded photos of the Strip and the area around the Strip. In part 2 (this post), I'm uploading photos of Downtown Las Vegas, as well as the area north of Downtown. Enjoy surfing!

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Photos

USA Hostels Las Vegas
This is the place where I stayed for 2 nights. The good thing about this place is that it's near Downtown Las Vegas, it's one of the few hostels that have a swimming pool, and it has free wireless internet! The "not so good" thing is that it's rather noisy at night (imagine hearing techno at 3am!), and the place looks old and small.

Pancake breakfast
In the hostel, we have a pancake breakfast in the morning. However, we (the guests) have to cook our own pancakes. The hostel provides the pancake mix and the frying pan, and we try to cook the pancakes ourselves. When I cooked my pancakes, I poured too much pancake mix into the pan. As a result, the pancake was too thick, and I couldn't flip it over. In the end, one side of my pancake was uncooked, and the other side overcooked. (I ate the stuff in the end, in order not to waste food.) Btw, the pancake in the photo looks soggy, because I added too much syrup and jam.

Fremont Street
The heart of Downtown Las Vegas, Fremont Street received a major facelift in 1995. The street was converted into a pedestrian mall, topped with a arched steel canopy filled with computer-controlled lights. Every night, a gigantic light show takes place on the canopy. In summer, special fans blow mist onto the pedestrial mall, providing relief on hot days.

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There are numerous casinos along Fremont Street. Here is one of them - 4 Queens.

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Mermaids

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Golden Goose (on the left) and Glitter Gutch

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Pioneer

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Golden Gate

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Light show (It's amazing to see the whole canopy turning into a gigantic screen. The show is enhanced by more than 500 kilowatts of wraparound sound.)

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Light show

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Light show

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Fremont Casino and 4 Queens at night

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Golden Nugget at night

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Pioneer at night

Main Street Station
Formerly a railway station, the casino keep many railway-related artefacts and the casino was built to resemble a luxurious Victorian era station.

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A carefully restored train carriage on display. The train carriage used to carry very important visitors and hence had many luxurious fittings and facilities.

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The casino's elegant Victorian era interior design makes me very impressed

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It's a pity that these magnificient stain-glass windows are hidden behind a row of gambling machines...