Bellagio marks Chinese New Year
Bellagio’s Conservatory & Botanical Gardens celebrates Chinese New Year — The Year of the Rabbit, with an Asian display filled with symbolic meaning and tradition.
The serene sanctuary is on display through March 5, open 24 hours a day adjacent to the Bellagio lobby, 3600 Las Vegas Blvd. South
Included is a 35-foot Chinese junk boat with a 38-foot mast. The boat is surrounded by a zigzag bridge — a design that follows the principles of feng shui, providing a difficult route for negative energy and bad spirits — that leads to a wing-tipped Ming Dynasty-styled gazebo.
Nearby, a 12-foot rabbit with a coat of more than 4,500 live sedge plants, watches over eight babies at play.
An 18-foot-tall Chinese God of Prosperity is the centerpiece amidst gold-leafed I-Ching coins. The God of Prosperity is flanked by two Ming Dynasty-styled dings.
