LAS VEGAS (Day 3 - part 5)
Eventually it was time for us to leave. The exit looked like another old temple, complete with two large fake snakes.
A display table offered a lot of information about the animals in the exhbits.
A zebra shark egg ... with the hole where the baby shark exited
Right next to the aquarium was the Undersea Explorer, which was included with our aquarium ticket. Along with many informative exhibits, they also had an immersive virtual reality theater, which opened in 2020.
(right) Door leading into the Undersea Explorer VR Experience
The theater ... Sean putting on his virtual reality headset
The movie playing was “Shark Dive” (apparently there is also one with humpback whales). Not only can you look completely around you (including up, down and 180 degrees behind you), but the seats vibrated and moved in sync with the movie... such as when a shark quickly swam right past us. Awesome!
Created by Immotion, the film allowed us to dive with marine biologists among tiger sharks and hammerheads. The film also featured the world’s first Shark Cam from a camera mounted on a shark’s dorsal fin.
Afterwards, we took a bit of time to read about sharks and whales.
Inside a shark cage. While simply a photograph, this great white looks pretty darn intimidating!
(right) Shark tracker
The Dwarf Lantern Shark (at a whopping 6 inches) must feel somewhat embarrassed when compared to the tiger shark (16 feet), great white shark (23 feet) or the extinct Megalodon (60 feet). It even looks kinda grumpy!
Humpback whales
We walked back to MGM and caught the monorail up to The Linq.
The Las Vegas Monorail is a 3.9-mile automated system that connects several large casinos. It uses nine trains, each consisting of four cars (the equivalent to two large busses), and has a maximum speed of 50 mph.
(right) The 366-foot-tall Sphere is an 18,600-seat entertainment arena. It's the largest spherical building in the world.
Arriving at the Linq station ... the location of the High Roller.
Later this evening, we'll be stepping into one of these spheres!
As we made our way from the station to the promenade, there were several high-end vending machines. As we stood looking at them, a man passing by highly recommended the pizza. We didn't partake however.
