Le Reve, Las Vegas : Highly recommended.

Le Reve stands for 'the dream' in french & is the name of a production show in one of the hotels in Las Vegas. More details here. A stunning display of acrobatics, aquatics, and art with repeated displays of limits in human endurance, Le Reve I believe is a must watch in a lifetime.

The entire stage for the show is actually a huge swimming pool which is almost 60 feet deep with hydraulic movements for different stages that pop up out of the pool. So if you ever head to Las Vegas for a vacation, don't forget to catch this one at the Wynn hotel. It's a bit provocatively priced at about 150 $ for a ticket and it took a lot of convincing on my part to push my friends for it.But once out of the show, none of them could stop from being overwhelmed by the sheer experience of it. You can of course check out some youtube videos of the show. The theme is a bit vague with the undefined dreams of a young girl taking shape one after the other, but the sheer amount of work that goes behind each feat in the show is just amazing. I was first left gaping at seeing people dropping from almost 100 feet in the air into the pool only to later discover that some of the performers were actually Olympians ! True to what the Ads say, it really seemed like a dream with my eyes open when it got over.

This show also gives a nice insight on the kind of scale that a determined human effort can achieve even if it's just for entertainment. Las Vegas itself of course is an altogether different story in scale, both hotels & businesses that surround them.