While blinking neon signs advertise big-budget shows and dice-jingling high rollers take five at swanky restaurants, Las Vegas’ desert setting, on the doorstep of The Grand Canyon, allows visitors to balance debauchery with appreciation of its unrivalled natural wonders. A dazzling den of vice and decadence at the base of the Mojave Desert, penned in by mountain ranges on all sides, is Nevada’s capital Las Vegas.