Among the more famous paid shows are Belle's Jubilee, Paragon's "O", The Venetian's Blue Man Group, MGM's David Copperfield's Magic and Stratosphere American Star Parody and so on. Gao Xi and the others watched the so-called most classic "lap dance" - Jubilee, which is a stage play with large-scale singing and dancing and interspersed with acrobatics. The scene is grandiose and spectacular. The others didn't look like it because they didn't buy tickets, they were too popular.

Although I feel a little regretful, it doesn't matter, anyway, it will be the old beauty in the future, and there is time to come here again.

If you think it's too expensive, it's a good idea to check out the free shows, such as the Musical Fountain at Paragon, the pirate ship at Treasure Island, the fountain and statue show at Caesar's Palace, the glamorous dance show at the Flamingo Hall, the classical music of the Venetian, and more. They've basically gone through it all over, after all, wouldn't it be a shame if they didn't see these performances here.

In addition, as a tourist city, shopping is indispensable. It is worth visiting the Fashion Show shopping center, the Italianate shopping street of the Venetian, the shopping street of Caesar's Palace, the shopping center of the "boutique", the shopping street of Paris. All the luxury brands you've heard of and the unheard of can be found here, and they're all overcrowded.

It makes people sigh, there is really no shortage of rich people in this world!

The three of them walked around Las Vegas for nearly ten hours, and when they returned to the hotel, they were already tired, but the three of them were still very excited, so they rested in the room for a while and then slipped down again, the hotel was holding a wedding party, they watched the excitement for a while, and then went to the casino to play.

It's just playing, but it's just watching.

Gao Xi is really not good at gambling, he can't even play mahjong. I'm afraid that the best game is the most popular landlord fighting in China.

He has often heard of slot machines, but this is the first time he has seen them, there are special casinos in Treasure Island, and there are many slot machines.

Severn suggested that everyone go and have fun, but Gossi thought about it and forgot it, it wasn't his hypocrisy. I really can't play, and he doesn't want to do anything about throwing money for nothing.

"He won't play anymore, let's go try our luck." Dai Qisi's eyes lit up when she saw the slot machine, Gao Xi was speechless for a while, but he didn't stop it, after all, if it was just playing, he didn't need to mind too much, so he stared at Dai Qisi and Saiwen like a bodyguard.

The two of them played for a while and then came down, although the money was lost. But it seems that he is in a good mood, Gao Xi really can't understand this kind of entertainment, and he is so happy to give money to others?

"You two don't seem to have good luck, huh?" Gao Xi said with a smile.

Saiwen waved his hand and said: "The probability of making money is too low, at most only a few tenths, it's okay to play, if you want to make money with this thing, you will definitely kill yourself." However, many people don't seem to understand this and would rather spend a lot of energy and money on this slot machine. It's really a little incomprehensible, it's not good to have the money to do something. It's boring to throw it on it. ”

"Okay, Severn, you have to understand that the people who come here to gamble have good feelings about themselves, not to mention a one-in-one chance of making money. Even if it's a 1 in 1,000 chance of making money, they will still play, because they are confident that they always feel that they are 1 in 100. Daisy said with a smile.

"yes, everyone thinks they can win, only to find out that they are actually here to give money." Gao Xi nodded.

"But these people shouldn't be short of money. You see most of the people here are black-haired and black-eyed Asians, in fact, most of them are Chinese, Las Vegas' Chinatown is very prosperous, although we went today, but obviously not happy, shopping there do not need to speak English, just speak Chinese. Severn said.

Gao Xi looked around, and sure enough, most of the casinos are Asians, as for whether they are Chinese, I don't know, but it must be East Asians, after all, East Asians still look very recognizable.

"Well, this is the so-called capital outflow, right?" Gao Xi shrugged his shoulders and said.

"Yes, people in Las Vegas know that Asian tourists are their gods, so try to make as much money as you can from them. Haven't we seen that free show before? I heard that there will be a fee in the future, which is obviously for Asian tourists, and the economic situation here is not very good, so it is necessary to squeeze more profits from the fat sheep. Severn sighed.

After a day off in Las Vegas, the three of them had breakfast in a small town near Las Vegas, and the main reason why they went to this town instead of Las Vegas was to avoid the congestion of the big city.

The restaurant they eat at is called "Qilinju", which is a Chinese buffet restaurant opened in a Chinese shopping mall. Among the Chinese cafeterias Gao Xi has visited, he feels that this restaurant is of the lowest grade, not so much a restaurant, but a very typical canteen of a certain unit in China. A large enough dining room, several rows of fixed tables and stools, the table top and floor that cannot be cleaned in time, and the simple and blunt service attitude all reminded Gao Xi of some domestic institutions and enterprise canteens that he was once familiar with.

Not only is the quality and hygiene of the food similar to that of domestic canteens, but even the various slogans posted on the walls to remind customers of the matters to pay attention to are very Chinese, and a few lines of unregular calligraphy remind people not to pour leftovers on the table, and to take the initiative to send dishes and chopsticks to the designated place after the meal. I don't know how other tourists feel, but sitting in this environment and eating, he has a sense of returning to his homeland, completely forgetting that I am in the distant United States.

If the requirements are not high, and there is no emphasis on what is in line with international standards, a typical Chinese meal, a typical dining environment, for those of us who come from afar, it is okay, after all, this is a distant town in a foreign country.

After dinner we left the town and started walking along the wide interstate highway and into the heart of the Mojave Desert once more.

There is still some green on the edge of the desert, and after leaving the town, it gradually stretches into the hinterland, and the scenery along the way is even more desolate, and the Gobi is a typical mountainous and basin terrain. However, the desert seen along the way in Gaoxi seems to be different from the desert in China, not composed of patches of fine yarn, but composed of Gobi and loess.

You can also see a little bit of green in the desert, which is dotted with desert plants. Although these plants grow sparsely, they also add some color to the monotonous desert.

Most of these plants grow in a variety of ways, mostly Joshua trees that do not grow strange leaves, salix and some cactus-like plants, and drought-tolerant grasses. Later, Gaucy discovered that the most common and attractive green plant along the way was the Joshua tree, which had a rather peculiar shape, looking like a twisted branch from a distance, but like a thorny stake up close.

This is due to the high altitude and low temperature of the Mojave Desert, coupled with just the right amount of humidity, which creates a special environment for this growth, and it is only here that you can see such a lush Joshua Tree Forest on a global scale, which can be said to be a unique scenery of the Mojave Desert.

Although this desert is desolate, the United States still attaches great importance to the management of the desert, not only with huge investment, but also before the rainy season arrives every year, the grass seeds must be sown by plane, and it is said that this grass is still imported from China. This sowing has been uninterrupted since 1970, and although the plants are sparsely grown, some of them seem to be able to cover the ground and control the wind and sand.

Another attraction along the way is the famous Pacific Railroad. The 1870 railroad that ran north and south of the United States ran more or less parallel to the highway around Barstow. The railroad was once the main transportation artery of the United States and played a very important role in the development of the early American economy.

The construction and opening of this railway has also led to the economic development along the line, and now many cities in the desert are now distributed with the development of the railway economy, such as Barstow, which was once developed from the largest railway hub in the southwestern United States, and the name Barstow also comes from the president of the Santa Fe Railway, William? Barstow.

After the fifties of the twentieth century, with the rise of air and road transportation, the role of this railway is now much less than before. For a long time between the road and the railway, there was hardly a single train passing through Gaoxi, and the century-old railway just lay quietly there with the busy highway next to it.

Occasionally passing by small stations, there are almost no passengers on the simple platform, only some tankers and trucks are parked there scatteredly, and there is no appearance of marshalling, let alone driving. Gao Xi thought that if he could take a train here, the scenery he would see would be different from what he saw on the road, because in many places the railway base is higher than the road, and many scenes cannot be seen or not seen by car on the road, especially in the Sierra Nevada near the junction of the two states.

The only train we saw along the way was on the Central Nevada Railroad, a long line of wagons moving slowly on a high hillside, as if to tell us that the railroad was still running, though it wasn't working much.

The California side of the highway is desolate, but the natural conditions are better, especially before you reach Barstow. Although it became more and more remote and desolate in the future, there were still a few decent villages and towns, and some people could be seen harvesting, and even in small towns, where the clothes of the residents were drying in the back of their houses or in the garden, the atmosphere seemed more lively. In addition, the southwest of California is not particularly arid, and some green can still grow in the yellow mountain bags. (To be continued.) )