The entertainment in Las Vegas was first-class

LV - and we're not talking Louis Vuitton. Two nights in Nevada's sin city have confirm that Macau has quite some distance to go. Although its maffia and gangster origins will stand it in good stead if Vegas is anything to go by.

This was our first long drive - around 7 hours in total. We stopped for petrol in California, and the service station claimed to be James Dean's last stop. The trip took us over the Sierra Nevada and through the Mojave desert. At one point the car thermometer read 105 degrees.

The entertainment in Las Vegas was first-class - notably Cirque du Soleil's production "Ka". It was billed by US media as being "the most lavish production in Western theatre history", and did not disappoint. Had it been produced in Hong Kong, it would have been called "Waa". The food too was excellent - we opted for Russian, but literally anything is available.

We stayed in the Luxor - the one in the shape of an ancient pyramid with a huge beam of light projected several miles into the sky. We figured it would be easy to find - and it was!