Two day tour of Las Vegas and Grand Canyon…

I am not a gambler so how do I tour Las Vegas…

This is what I did: I booked a room in Imperial Palace for around $70 per night. This hotel is on the strip just opposite Mirage. Reached Vegas some time in the afternoon by bus (have gone by air before. that is also a nice way to reach Vegas). We didn’t have a lot of luggage, so, from the greyhound terminal, we walked through Fremont street experience to DTC (downtown transportation center). Bought a day pass for deuce and other transit ($5 per person). Boarded the deuce to reach Imperial Palace. Checked in, freshened up, ate something and left the hotel room. We visited the Venetian. Crossed the street and boarded deuce to take us to the southernmost end of the strip (we got off at mgm grand. next time i will try getting off at the tropicana). We saw the lion exhibit, had a quick dinner at Del Taco and then walked back to bellagio from mgm grand. That was unnecessary. Next time I will board the deuce back to bellagio. It was dusk by then and we got to see our first show of the bellagio fountains. We went inside bellagio to the conservatory of flowers and were back in an hour for our second fountain show. and we waited for yet another show Then we boarded the complimentary shuttle from Harrah’s to Rio for masquerade in the sky. that was a waste of time. next time we will go for the fremont street experience instead. really liked fremont street when I saw it in daytime.
Next time, I will try to take out some time for the Mirage volcano. and have heard that there are white tigers in one of the casinos. so that could be on my list.

Next day early morning, we picked up our Hertz rental car right from our hotel (! very convenient) Imperial Palace at 7am and took off for hoover dam. stopped for some supplies at an albertsons at the junction for 93S. Reached hoover dam at 9:30am. Planned to be there till 10am. Were off at 10am…Didn’t realise the implications of it at that time while crossing the state line, but we had lost at hour there and it was now 11am….We reached grand canyon at 2pm (when it was actually 3pm…). Mather Pt was beautiful but horribly cold. Enjoyed it though. Then were a little confused. so caught the green shuttle to Yaki Pt at 4:30pm for sunset. It was beautiful. Left immediately at 6:00pm for Flagstaff. we had a greyhound bus to catch later in the night. Reached greyhound terminal at 8:20pm after getting lost many times…just in time for the bus.

Next time, we will take out time for the imax movie and smooth water raft trip. have seen the imax movie before but not done the raft trip yet.