Many travellers might feel predisposed to dislike Sin City for its brashness, its lurid aesthetic, its populist appeal - but I find its unique brew of hedonism and heart intoxicating. Each year, up to 40 million people visit the city of just 635,000 residents that’s home to the world’s biggest tourist trap: the Strip.
Las Vegas is a monument to human ingenuity and vice capitalist performance art let loose in the outer reaches of the Mojave Desert a neon-lit oasis existing solely to entertain us.
This article was adapted from National Geographic Traveller (UK).
