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| - Do you have tranquil place to escape to when you are on the Las Vegas Strip? I do. It is a 15 acre tropical landscape where winding brick paths with benches pass along green and lush gardens with tropical trees towering overhead. It is a tranquil place with waterfalls cascading into streams with islands. Swimming in these streams are glowing koi and catfish. Bridges look over turtles, brown pelicans, and ducks. It is a tranquil place where guinea fowl coexist with tourists. It is a tranquil place where the wildest animals are Chilean flamingos. This tranquil place is the Flamingo Wildlife Habitat.
The Flamingo Wildlife Habitat is a tranquil place that is a coin throw from the Las Vegas Strip. It sits at the back of the Flamingo Hotel between the two hotel towers, swimming pool complex, and monorail. It is the antithesis of the busy Las Vegas Strip.
It is a tranquil place on the Strip, which I go in different moods. In the afternoon, I enjoy my moments on the bench overlooking the pond by the wedding chapel while sipping tea or coffee with my head in a good book. The sounds of the waterfalls and birds are the soundtrack of a Back to Nature CD. In the spring the olfactory candy of the flowers escalates my sense of tranquility. The Flamingo Habitat is my garden on the Strip.
Late at night, if I am staying overnight on the Strip, I delight in bringing my beer here. There is something spiritual about sipping a beer in a tranquil place in the dark listening to rushing waterfalls and watching flamingos. The Flamingo Habitat is my beer garden on the Strip.
Any time of the day, I enjoy bird watching. The Flamingo Habitat claims to have 300 birds. They even have a birding checklist. I enjoy sitting on my bench by the wedding chapel watching the birds diving into the pond and flying into the lush canopies above. When I have had enough of relaxing on my favorite bench, I enjoy watching the water fowl swimming below or the flamingos that are always standing. The Flamingo Habitat is my bird watching spot on the Strip.
Unfortunately my tranquil place on the Strip had been violated. Development pressure is causing restaurants to encroach onto the habitat space. Recently, a big news story was that a few drunken tourists killed a guinea fowl (like drinking by itself makes you do something like that). Being the animal lover that I am, it was difficult for me to return to the Flamingo Habitat until the staycation last week. Things have taken a turn for the better. It is encouraging that the Flamingo Habitat rescued two injured brown pelicans. Their new home is the former penguin exhibit. The Flamingo is giving them a nice life by recreating their natural habitat. A fun fact is that they are named Bugsey and Virginia after the Flamingo's founders.
If you do not have a tranquil place to escape to when you are on the Strip, why not make it the Flamingo Wildlife Habitat. It is convenient, free, and currently open 24 hours. And it is 4 stars.
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This is review 60 of the Yelp 100 Challenge
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