| The state capital and largest city in Arizona is Phoenix | | | | sports bars and open-air vendors. |
| it is also the sixth largest city in the US. The city is | | | | The most elegant hall in the city is the 1929 Orpheum |
| located along the normally dry Salt River. It is known | | | | Theatre, a Spanish-colonial baroque building with |
| as the Land of the Desert Sun. Phoenix is one of the | | | | immense style. Broad way shows and international |
| more attractive metropolitan cities in the midst of the | | | | touring companies appear here. |
| Arizona desert and mountain ranges. | | | | Phoenix offers a lot of night life from clubs, to |
| It continues to be an important farming and industrial | | | | operas, and every thing. There is a multitude of |
| centre for the south west. Since the 1950s, Phoenix | | | | Arizona night clubs, bars and dance clubs spread |
| has been voted Americas Best City five times. | | | | across the valley The younger set hangs out in |
| Scottsdale and the Biltmore District of Phoenix along | | | | Tempe, around the massive university, where there |
| Camelback Rd are the Valley's main up scale shopping | | | | are many bars. |
| areas. Old Town Scottsdale is the most popular | | | | Golf is perhaps the most popular activity in the city |
| tourist shopping area in the Valley. Arizona Centre | | | | with nearly 200 golf courses. Golf is not cheap in to |
| shopping complex sits among towering palms, | | | | play here. Eighteen holes at some of the Valleys |
| dramatic fountains and lush gardens. The centre has | | | | premier resorts cost in excess of one hundred |
| over 50 shops and restaurants, a cinema, massive | | | | pounds. |