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Please note: there is an elevation gain of 4,380 ft. / 1,330 meters to Phantom Ranch ==> for most too much for a 1-day tour (i.e. down and up again)
Las Vegas annually ranks as one of the world's most visited tourist destinations. The city's tolerance for numerous forms of adult entertainment earned it the title of "Sin City", and has made Las Vegas a popular setting for literature, films, television programs, and music videos.
The Las Vegas Strip is well known for its lounges, showrooms, theaters and nightclubs most of the attractions and shows on the Strip are located on the hotel casino properties. Some of the more popular free attractions visible from the Strip include the water fountains at Bellagio and the volcano at The Mirage. There are several Cirque du Soleil shows in in the big hotel casinos.
Caesars Palace was founded in 1966. Create as an opulent facility that gave guests a sense of life during the Roman Empire. It contains many statues, columns and iconography typical of Hollywood Roman period productions including a 20-foot / 6.1 m statue of Augustus Caesar near the entrance.
The replica of the "Great Sphinx of Giza" forms the entrance area to the the LUXOR casino & hotel @ The Strip.
New York-New York Hotel & Casino is a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip designed to evoke New York City in its architecture. So, part iof the complex are resemble New York City buildings such as the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building. In front of the property is a 150-foot tall replica of the Statue of Liberty.
The Colosseum @ Caesars Palace is a 4,296-seat entertainment venue with a 22,450 square feet / 2,086 m2 stage, which was originally built for Celine Dion's show "A New Day..." in 2003.
Celine Dion's show was a great success; she has had the longest residency with mor than 1,110 shows.
The venue has since hosted performances by numerous other world famous artists.
In the middle of Arches National Park, near the Windows Section, Balanced Rock towers like the park's striking central object. Weighing 3,577 tons and 16.7 meters high, the boulder called "Ham Rock" seems to defy gravity. It sits slightly offset on a 22.4-meter-high rock pedestal of Navajo sandstone, which forms the base, and the Dewey Bridge Layer above it. Since the latter is a type of consolidated mudstone (siltstone) and thus more eroded than the Ham Rock formed of hard slickrock sandstone of the Estrada Formation, it has also been eroded to a greater extent over time, creating the unique rock formation that gives the supposedly very wobbly and fragile impression. Nevertheless, the colossus rests unimpressed by wind and weather because it offers some protection to the more vulnerable layer that supports it.
One goal of Glen Canyon Dam is hydroelectricity generation. It is the second-biggest producer of hydroelectric power in the Southwestern United States.
Between 1980 and 2013, Glen Canyon Dam generated an average of 4,717 gigawatt hours (GWh) per year, enough for about 400,000 homes.
The Strip is the road from Downtown Las Vegas to the south. In the strictest sense, "the Strip" refers only to the stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard that is roughly between Sahara Avenue and Russell Road, a distance of 4.2 miles / 6.8 km. However, the term is often used to refer not only to the road but also to the various casinos and resorts that line the road, including properties 1 mile / 1.6 km or more away from Las Vegas Boulevard.
The "Mandalay Bay Tram" is a Cable Liner Shuttle installation consisting of an elevated 2,749-foot / 838 m long guideway with two completely independent shuttle systems running side-by-side. The guideway alignment passes above street level at a height of between 16 and 26 ft / 4.9 and 7.9 m. One system serves all four stations along the route, while the other provides an express link between the two end stations.
Pier 27—the James R. Herman Cruise Terminal on the northern waterfront at The Embarcadero—is the current primary docking facility for cruise ships. The new 88,000-square-foot terminal offers 1,300 meters of berthing space for cruise ships. Pier 35 will serve as a backup berth, providing an additional 1,000 meters of docking space for giant cruise liners.
The arena held its grand opening on April 6, 2016. In 2016, the National Hockey League awarded an expansion team to a Las Vegas ownership group with T-Mobile Arena as its home venue, The team "Vegas Golden Knights" play in this hall since 2017.
Wind 'n Sea Beach in La Jolla, CA! Some call it Beverly Hills with a beach!
Canon 5D, 24-105 f/4 lens, Polarizer, One stop split neutral density graduated filter.
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Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill was built by Arthur Brown Jr. and Henry Howard in 1933.
On January 29, 2008, the tower was designated a National Historic Site.
Lillie Hitchcock Coit held the San Francisco Fire Department in high regard. She reportedly became the mascot of Engine Company No. 5 of the Volunteer Fire Department after assisting in extinguishing a fire near Telegraph Hill. Upon her death in 1929, she bequeathed $100,000 to the municipality for the beautification of the city. This donation is said to have funded the construction of the Art Deco-style observation tower in 1933 in honor of the volunteer firefighters.