Residents of Las Vegas patronize many types of businesses in areas that are known as “local” in order to avoid some of the heavy tourism and traffic that will often times happen around busy attractions. It isn’t that the locals want to do different things than tourists, it is that they are more interested in finding the places that will give enjoyment but will also not be overly crowded and force them to wait in the lines that are generally associated with more tourist attractions. This is why so many people who come to Las Vegas seek out the areas that the locals will patronize, in an attempt to find the hidden gems that aren’t in a lot of the books and magazines that you will read as a tourist. One of the best kept secrets as far as the Las Vegas and outdoor kinds of excursions is Death Valley. This is an area that is located just a short drive from Las Vegas on the California border, and which offers some of the most unique landscapes and beautiful scenery on earth. This is not your typical lush and green scenery that you might expect at a national park, but instead is a desert landscape that is associated with one of the hottest and driest places on the face of the globe. As a matter of fact, Death Valley holds the record for the hottest air temperature ever recorded using modern instruments. While there may be some challenges to that record every year coming from places like Afghanistan, it is widely recognized that Death Valley is one of the hottest places in the world. Because it also gets such a small amount of rainfall every year, the landscape has changed into being something that looks like another planet. When you
Residents of Las Vegas patronize many types of businesses in areas that are known as “local” in order to avoid some of the heavy tourism
