Las Vegas

"Viva... Las Vegas!!!!" I'm sure you have heard of this. If you wanna elope and get married or gamble all night long, Las Vegas is the place and perhaps that's why it is also known as the Gambling Capital of the world or the Marriage Capital of the world. Vegas belongs to state Nevada, USA. Vegas is also world popular as a favourite holiday destination with lots of shopping places, hotels, chapels, casinos etc. With the neon/ helium lighting systems, all time crowded streets, Vegas is definitely a beautiful place in the world that everyone should take a chance to visit.

The city is located on a desert area yet the city has considerable amount of green and wild life. There is a bit scarcity of water though. Snow fall is not often but not at all unseen. Vegas' climate is subtropical desert climate. Vegas summers are usually hot and winters are considerably mild. 

Vegas economy is basically fueled by tourism, casinos, hotels, restaurants, gaming and conventions. Casinos and hotels in the area include La Bayou, Binion's Gambling Hall and Hotel, California Hotel and Casino, Fremont Hotel and Casino,  Main Street Casino, Golden Gate Hotel and Casino, Golden Nugget, Plaza Hotel & Casino,  Amtrak,  El Cortez, Fitzgeralds, Four Queens, Gold Spike Hotel and Casino and the Las Vegas Club.

Other attractions of Las Vegas include the Neon Museum,  Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, the Las Vegas Natural History Museum, Lied Discovery Children's Museum and the Old Las Vegas Mormon State Historic Park. Vegas also has a Zoo which is known as the Southern Nevada Zoological-Botanical Park and it is home for about 150 species of animals. Vegas also has numerous parks , golf courses, sport areas which include Las Vegas Springs Preserve, Floyd Lamb Park at Tule Springs, Angel Park Golf Club, Desert Pines Golf Course, Durango Hills Golf Club, Las Vegas Municipal Golf Course, 5 dog parks, 9 community centers, 8 senior centers and 20 sports facilities including 9 skate parks and 6 swimming pools.

Travellers' Guide

Four Seasons Hotel Las Vegas 

3960 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, NV 89119

1 (702) 632-5000

Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas 

3752 Las Vegas Boulevard South, Las Vegas, NV 89109

+1 (702) 590 8888

Platinum Hotel and Spa 

211 E Flamingo Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89169

702.365.5000

Staybridge Suites Las Vegas 

5735 Dean Martin Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89118

877-859-5095

Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa 

11011 West Charleston Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89135

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Yangshuo County

Yangshuo County is found in Guilin, Guangxi Province, China. It is located in Yangshuo Town. Surrounded by karst peaks and bordered on one side by the Li River, it has become a popular hot spot for foreign backpackers. Two main roads situated away from the water and form the central part of the town, Chinese Street Die Cui Lu and West Street Xi Jie. 

There are plenty of activities to do around Yangshuo. Tourists and visitors can swim in the Li River or the cleaner Yu Long also known as the Dragon River. Or else you can climb one of many nearby karst peaks, hire a bicycle for a cycling trip through the karst scenery, arrange a sightseeing trip on the Li River by bamboo raft or cruise boat, or visit a number of local cave systems, including a butterfly cave. The mild climate is also good for health and such activities will make your body burn the extra unwanted calories. Yangshuo is also China's foremost venue for rock climbing, with around 300 bolted routes and several companies offering guiding and equipment hire.

Zhang Yimou's folk musical "Impression Liu Sanjie" is a popular extravaganza performed outdoors in a river and mountain setting with a cast of 600 singers and dancers. Basically most of the town’s traditional culture has been devoted to the tourist industry, and tourists can pay a fee to watch fishermen fishing with cormorants, hire local women in traditional ethnic dress to pose for photographs, or take classes in Chinese calligraphy, tea ceremony, or cooking.

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Angkor City

Being the largest preindustrial city in the world, with an elaborate system of infrastructure connecting an urban sprawl of at least 1,000 square kilometres (390 sq mi) to the well-known temples at its core, Angkor city in Cambodia served as the Khmer Empire from 9th to 15th centuries. The temples of the Angkor area number over one thousand, ranging in scale from nondescript piles of brick rubble scattered through rice fields to the magnificent Angkor Wat, said to be the world's largest single religious monument. Many of the temples at Angkor have been restored, and together, they comprise the most significant site of Khmer architecture.

The Angkorian period began in AD 802, when the Khmer Hindu monarch Jayavarman II declared himself a "universal monarch" and "god-king", until 1351, when Angkor first fell under Ayutthayan suzainry, to 1431, when Ayutthaya put down a rebellion and sacked the Khmer capital, causing its population to migrate south to the area of Phnom Penh. In 889, Yasovarman took over the throne who was a great ruler. He built a new city known as Yasodharapura and a new reservoir called Baray.  

Over the next 300 years, between 900 and 1200, the Khmer Empire produced some of the world's most magnificent architectural masterpieces in the area known as Angkor. Most are concentrated in an area approximately 15 miles (24 km) east to west and 5 miles (8.0 km) north to south, although the Angkor Archaeological Park, which administers the area, includes sites as far away as Kbal Spean, about 30 miles (48 km) to the north. Some 72 major temples or other buildings are found within this area, and the remains of several hundred additional minor temple sites are scattered throughout the landscape beyond. Because of the dispersed, low-density nature of the medieval Khmer settlement pattern, Angkor lacks a formal boundary, and its extent is therefore difficult to determine. However, a specific area of at least 1,000 km2 (390 sq mi) beyond the major temples is defined by a complex system of infrastructure, including roads and canals that indicate a high degree of connectivity and functional integration with the urban core. In terms of spatial extent, this makes it the largest urban agglomeration in human history prior to the Industrial Revolution, easily surpassing the nearest claim, that of the Mayan city of Tikal. In fact, in terms of its urban sprawl, medieval Angkor even approaches the size of modern Los Angeles, and is said to have been seventeen times larger than Manhattan Island. 

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City of Venice

It is suppose to be one of the world’s most romantic cities. With canals of water instead of roads and smiling people always ready to guide you through the city and the magnificent structures displaying eras’ worth of architecture and legends, Venice is a number one choice in Europe for anyone. The name is derived from the ancient Veneti people who inhabited the region by the 10th century B.C. The city historically was the capital of the Venetian Republic. Venice has been known as the "La Dominante", "Serenissima", "Queen of the Adriatic", "City of Water", "City of Masks", "City of Bridges", "The Floating City", and "City of Canals".  The city stretches across 117 small islands in the marshy Venetian Lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy. The saltwater lagoon stretches along the shoreline between the mouths of the Po (south) and the Piave (north) Rivers. 

The classical Venetian boat is the gondola, although it is now mostly used for tourists, or for weddings, funerals, or other ceremonies. Many gondolas are lushly appointed with crushed velvet seats and Persian rugs. Less well-known is the smaller sandolo. The main transportation means are motorised waterbuses (vaporetti), which ply regular routes along the major canals and between the city's islands, and private boats. The only gondolas still in common use by Venetians are the traghetti, foot passenger ferries crossing the Grand Canal at certain points without bridges.

Azienda Consorzio Trasporti Veneziano (ACTV) is the name of the public transport system in Venice. It combines land transportation, with buses, and canal travel, with water buses (vaporetti). In total, there are 25 routes that connect the city. The Venice People Mover (managed by ASM) is a cable operated public transit system connecting Tronchetto Island with Piazzale Roma. Water taxis are also active. 

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Teotihuacan

 Teotihuacan stands for "The City of the Gods" in the Nahuatl language of the Aztecs. It is an archeological site found in the basin of Mexico containing large pyramidal structures, large residential complexes, Avenue of the Dead, and numerous colorful, well-preserved murals. Additionally, Teotihuacan produced a thin orange pottery style that spread through Mesoamerica.  At its zenith, perhaps in the first half of the 1st millennium CE, Teotihuacan was the largest city in the pre-Columbian Americas. At this time it may have had more than 200,000 inhabitants, placing it among the largest cities of the world in this period. Teotihuacan was even home to multi-floor apartment compounds built to accommodate this large population. The civilization and cultural complex associated with the site is also referred to as Teotihuacan or Teotihuacano.

The city and the archaeological site are located in what is now the San Juan Teotihuacán municipality in the State of México, Mexico, approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) northeast of Mexico City. The site covers a total surface area of 83 km² and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. It is the most visited archaeological site in Mexico.

For many years, archaeologists believed it was built by the Toltec. This belief was based on colonial period texts, such as the Florentine Codex, which attributed the site to the Toltecs. However, the Nahuatl word "Toltec" generally means "craftsman of the highest level" and may not always refer to the Toltec civilization centered at Tula, Hidalgo. Since Toltec civilization flourished centuries after Teotihuacan, the people could not have been the city's founders. In the Late Formative period, a number of urban centers arose in central Mexico. The most prominent of these appears to have been Cuicuilco, on the southern shore of Lake Texcoco. Some believed that the eruption of the Xitle volcano may have prompted a mass emigration out of the central valley and into the Teotihuacan valley. These settlers may have founded and/or accelerated the growth of Teotihuacan. Some have put forth the Totonac people as the founders of Teotihuacan. There is evidence that at least some of the people living in Teotihuacan came from areas influenced by the Teotihuacano civilization, including the Zapotec, Mixtec and Maya peoples. The culture and architecture of Teotihuacan was influenced by the Olmec people, who are considered to be the "mother civilization" of Mesoamerica. The earliest buildings at Teotihuacan date to about 200 BCE. The largest pyramid, the Pyramid of the Sun, was completed by 100 CE.

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