Book a ticket to Las Vegas for great restaurants, nightlife and canyons

DEEP IN THE heart of the unforgiving Mojave desert, built on the site of a former Mormon settlement, lies an oasis of freedom where, as the city’s tagline suggests, anything goes.

Las Vegas’s reputation as a city of vice and dice is long established having sprouted from the ruination of prohibition and Nevada’s early adoption of legalised casino-style gambling.

Having been the last western state to outlaw the same practice in 1910, the roulette wheel that locals feared would be forever stilled had, in just 21 years, come full circle and created the “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” city we know today.