Category: Las Vegas

This is our entry in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Letter K – Needs to have the letter K anywhere in the word.

Downtown Container Park, on downtown Fremont Street in Las Vegas, Nevada, is a newer shopping center constructed using renovated shipping containers.   Here you will find retail shops, restaurants, bars, and live family-friendly free entertainment.  Just for the kids there are a tree house, a play area, and a 33-foot slide.

Downtown Container Park

At the entrance to the Container Park is a 150:1 scale model of a female praying mantis. This 40-foot-tall insect breathes fire from its two antennae and blasts flames 20 feet in the air in time to music played in the park.

Fire-Breathing Praying Mantis

There are no casinos and none of the grit that is so prevalent only two blocks away in the better-known area of Fremont Street.

These photos were taken on October 27, 2017. Specs are:

First photo: Olympus TG-4, ISO 500, f/2, 1/30 sec, -1 EV, 19.8mm (35mm-equivalent)

Second photo: Olympus TG-4, ISO 800, f/2.7, 1/20 sec, -1 EV, 33mm (35mm-equivalent)