Indian Girl At Grand Canyon, Las Vegas

Aakrita is an Indian and student of history. Her sister at Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, captured Aakrita’s picture. She writes you have booked your inexpensive flights to Las Vegas, made certain you have finished the online ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorisation) to make certain they allow you in the United States of America, booked a hotel and rented a car, and now you are wondering what an Earth you will do when you get there!
Well No.1 on the record is evidently the casinos, otherwise why bother going away to the World’s gaming capital in the first place? But to be entirely blunt with you, once you have set eyes on one casino floor, all the others are pretty much a replica.
Other hotels worth a look are Excalibur, Luxor and Mandalay Bay, while those at the upmarket end, such as MGM, Bellagio, etc are nothing special from a visitor’s point of view.

One area though a lot of folk think of is the Grand Canyon Las Vegas. However many visitors from around the world fail to realise the real size of the USA, as Las Vegas is in Nevada, while the vast amount of the Grand Canyon is situated in Arizona. If you View at a map it appears barely a couple of centimetres away, no challenge travelling to it then eh? Wrong.
From the dam you enclose to drive South some way along Highway 93, which is not such a bad trip but will have plenty of roadworks till around 2011.
Unlike the hotel car parks in Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon is pretty well sign posted, and it is a left turn onto Highway 145, towards the Skywalk. Whatever you do, don’t ignore the junction; it is miles prior to the next one. The further along this road you move, the more rugged the terrain, with the road reaching more than 5000 feet in places, supplementary oxygen is not necessary though!
A lot of the trip is across an Indian Reservation, and the final leg involves driving on an unpaved road, although they have promised to build a good smooth one for the tourists who donýt like the rugged natural feel of the desert.
The whole travelling distance from The Strip is roughly speaking 120 miles, and can take anywhere between 3-4 hours to complete, so you are looking at a complete day, so start off early. Just a separate suggestion, this is the desert, take a load of water, energy food, and ensure you have a full tank of fuel, tourists have died in the Nevada, Arizona and Californian deserts in the past, do not join the list.
If you have not rented a car, or do not plan to drive so far yourself, many other options are on hand to view the Grand Canyon.
You can locate coach tours to the area, and these are comfortable and air-conditioned with toilets, and are good value, but again you are still fixed with the travel time and it is longer on these tours.