4th day - Anaheim aka DisneyLand aka Los Angeles

I left San Diego This morning and headed to Anaheim in Los Angeles. The World famous Disneyland is located in the city of Anaheim. Our hotel is 1 km away from DisneyLand. We will play in disneyland for 3 coming days . SO we just tour around the anaheim city for today. We walked our way to "Block of Orange" shopping mall. On the way , we saw this " Crystal Cathedral" . It is a Really huge church. It has spectacular buildings around it. There's a big crystal made of steel ( I believe ) standing tall at the middle of the cathedral. The bell sound of this church is nostalgic . On the way back from the shopping mall to our hotel , we caught a glimpse of the magical fireworks of disneyland from a distance. It was really awesome. I have 3 more chances to see it ... so i might be able to take some photos down for u guys . Till then ~

3rd day - San Diego Zoo

3rd day of my travel. We went to the famous San Diego Zoo. Well , zoo is after all , zoo . Nothing really exciting incide except animals , animals , and more animals . Anyway , i must give credit to this zoo for being so commited to re-create the habitat of each animals. Tropicals , artics , deserts and all that. I really feel like i am back IN malaysia when we're in the malayan tiger area. At night , we went tour around San Diego around. Then we only found out that the neighbourhood we walked passed every morning is a really famous place for gays and lesbians . It is called Hillcrest , and you can read more about it in wikipedia(well , we know it from there) It is the hub / center of activities of those special communities. We saw lots of gays and les walking around the HillCrest area and there are lots of gay bars around. Well , one of my friend even got some "Special hello" from a gay . Funny ! But anyway , its an good experience.

2nd day - San Diego - Balboa Park + City Tour

Hi all . These are the photos from the 2nd day of my travel in San Diego. We Woke up late this morning .. so we changed our original plan of visiting San Diego Zoo. Instead , we went to balboa park and touring around the city first. Balboa park is a Very huge park . It hosted 13 museums of different kinds . The whole park gave us European's feeling as its building are all of Spanish style . Then we walk to the bay area . San Diego is famous of its beaches and water activities. The coastline is superb . zzzzzzits beautiful to see blue colour sea , white yards and ships , and gulls flying above. We also saw one of the US naval's carrier . It served in the world war 2 and now it has retired and take a back seat role - a floating , on-the-spot museum . On our way exploring thru the city , we found a street that hosted the recent Gay/Lesbian Pride parade. We saw their iconic flag - rainbow colour flags on every shops and street lamps . At night , we went to the famous GasLamp district in San Diego downtown. The whole street is filled with bars and grills , and restaurants . We went into one of the bar and drink some beers . A relax 2nd day !

Grand Canyon Hike : Ribbon Falls .

These are the photos taken during my hike to North Rim. The Hikes took us 3 days. We hiked down the canyon at night and then use one day to hike to the Falls . We hiked a whooping 50 KM in 3 days time. It is a unforgettable experience hiking to the North rim. Enjoy the photos !

p/s : Tmr i'm going to the world famous San Diego Zoo ~! Prepare to see some rare exotic animals !

XuShen

1st Day Travel : San Diego -- SeaWorld

Yay Finally I finished my work at Grand Canyon ! For the next 21 days i will travelling around USA and Taiwan ! Here's some photo from my first day of travel ~

Las Vegas 3 -- Zumanity By Circque Du Soleil

I spent 76 dollars to watched a show in Vegas. It is a must-do to watch a performance in any of the hotel/casinos . We were pampered with lots of choices of shows. From highly musical one like Phantom of the opera to the magical David Copperfield and Chris Angel , to the sexiest show = Zumanity.

Zumanity is one out of the 5 shows by cirque du soleil ( circus of the sun ) that is performed in vegas. It is quoted as " the other side of cirque du soleil " and it is the " most sensual and sexy " one.

Well , the show is spectacular . The lighting , the stage ,the live band and all the stage effects. It is not describable by words . THe whole show lasted about 2 hours and i have had the most amazing 2 hours of my life. Like the director of the show said , zumanity is the "celebration of sensuality, nudity, and various body shapes and sizes "

It is not allowed to take photos during the show , so if you want to have a look of the stage , go to this link http://www.cirquetribune.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=10&pos=133 .

The whole show combines sex with arts . Sensuality and Sexuality is all the shows about. I never imagine a show can be soooooo stunning . I have some trailers that i found on youtube. Please watch it ... it is really nice.

Zumanity did perform in TV , but because TV has greater variety audiences , some obscure scenes was not shown , like lesbian and gay scene . Furthermore , many of the nude and topless performances are not shown too.

The live band , if you notice , is superb. Every songs you heard is played live. But more amazingly , the singer of the show is the best singer i ever heard singing live. You can see it in one of the highlight of the show , the hoop girl. This girl 's name is Julia , she was nearly topless in the show in vegas. In this video , they are performing on-stage in some other theater in Hollywood , SO the stage is nowhere near the one in Vegas .



Nearing the end of the show there's one section where they will have this "Orgy party" ... They will ask most of the performaners on-stage and start mimic sexs ... They will invite 2 audiences from the crowd and join them . Complements by the Pink and Red lights of the theater , it is really really .... dunno how to say . That day they invited a housewifes from England , 60 years old. She's really having great fun up there , squeezing the male's breasts and butts like a super desperate housewifes. Laugh till the whole theater tak boleh tahan.

Here's one of the example I found in youtube .



That's all for now ... I really can't describe how fantastic and stunning was the show... If you are interested , you can look for more in Youtube. THere's this one with 2 girls performing in a big bowl ... that's really artistic and beautiful. Maybe the most beautiful bodies i ever seen in my life ...

Till then , bye .

Xushen , atlantiz0 .

Vegas 2. -- Just photos .

-- Las Vegas --

Hi how's all of ya ~

I just came back from vegas and wanna share some photos with yall .

Vegas is not merely a place full of casinos . It is a place full with Entertainments. You never know what entertainment fully means before you witness Las Vegas. It is a sophisticated , romantic , highly entertaining megacity. To be honest , I spent less than 10% of my time in vegas loitering and losing my money in casinos .

LAs vegas is a very big city , but if you are looking for the most happening place in Vegas , the Las Vegas Strip is the one for you. Las Vegas Strip is one long long street , about 4 KM from one end to the other . along the street are many 5 stars hotel and casinos. To explore all of the hotels , I spent 3 full days and nights. Every hotel/casino has their own themes. Each of them has their own featured shows too.

On the way to vegas . Las Vegas is sitting right in a desert. It took me 5 hours to reach LV from Grand Canyon. We passed thru deserts along the way. LV is super hot .. 40 degrees at noon , and 38 at night. It gets even hotter when the wind blows .

I went LV with 4 of my friends. We "lompang" a tour bus from canyon to LV. It is night when we reached LV. Its pretty amazing , almost unbelievable when we saw LV from afar. Just imagine you see sea of lights in the middle of a desert. The hotel we staying is called " Excalibur " . It 's theme is "castle and knights " .

We then starts exploring the LV strip from one end to the other.

Next we saw is Bellagio hotel . It has a 8 acre lake infront of it. Bellagio hotel's theme is Water and luxury. The special thing about bellagio hotel is its fountain show which starts in noon till midnight . IT shows every 15 minutes and changes songs everytime.

Next hotel we see is the "Paris" hotel. The theme of the hotel , obviously , is Paris. It has all the statue , carved wall , fountains that can be found in france , and of coz , the Eifel tower. This replica of Eiffel tower is of the exact thing , but 1/2 the size . Anyway it looks beautiful and tall enough even in its halved size.

Next up is Caesar's Palace . It 's building is themed on Old Roman's culture. There are lots of sculpture of the God and Goddess in Roman time.

This is the shopping complex attached to the hotel , it is called "the forum shops". There are lots of clubs , bars and restaurants inside too. The sculptures looks pretty stunning at nights. Sure they kill lots of camera memory from the tourist.

This is the lobby of the hotel. A big round hall with very beautiful wall paintings and lightings.

The 3 goddess that overlook the whole hotel lobby. Cool ~

The next hotel/casino is one of my favourite. It is called " Venetian" . The hotel is built to resembles Venice . It kinda looks like a floating city . Venetian is the host of the " phantom of the opera" show. It has a 40 million dollar custom made theather just for showing phantom of the opera. Too bad i didn't have time to watch the show here ....

The walkway in the hotel .

This is the "Luxor " hotel . With the theme of egypt . The big pyramid is really a hotel . It is really big inside with all the writtings and paintings of ancient egypt . See the half lion man ( dunno what the name lar ) ? The tip of the pyramid will shoots off very strong green laser light at night , and the whole pyramid will shines at night.

NExt is MGM . Dont be fooled by this photo. MGM Grand is a very Grand hotel . The bronze lion sculpture is the biggest bronze sculpture in north america. This hotel has 30 something real lions .. there is a big human-make garden where they will let those trained lions show themselves during the day.

THis is the "New York New York" hotel. As you can see ... it is a manhattan city in small scale. I watched its show .. It is called "Zumanity " by circque du soleil . I will write more on that ... Anyway , notice the roller coastal tracks surrounding the whole hotel ? It's awesome !

More to come ...

Xu Shen , atlantiz0 .