Travel Picks: Nine of the world's largest for travelers

(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-08-25 18:37

5. World's largest casino - Venetian Macao Resort hotel

The total casino space at this resort (http://www.venetianmacao.com/en/home.aspx) that opened in August 2007 is about 550,000 square feet, with 870 gaming tables and more than 3,400 slot machines to go along with their 3,000 suites and 1 million square feet of retail space.

6. World's longest beach - Praia do Cassino, Brazil

Praia do Cassino (Cassino Beach) on the southern coast of Brazil stretches 152 miles from the channel that connects the Lagoa do Patos lake to the Atlantic Ocean near Rio Grande in the north to the border with Uruguay in the south. You can drive and park on it, so it also seems to double as a highway in places.

7. World's largest airport - King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, Saudi Arabia(http://www.the-saudi.net/kfia/)

The actual airport of the site is only about 14 square miles, but it sits on a property that is around 300 square miles, making it more than 6 times as large as the entire city of San Francisco, and more than twice as large as second-place Mirabel International in Montreal.

8. World's largest shopping mall - South China Mall

The South China Mall (http://www.southchinamall.com.cn) in Dongguan crushed all rival mega malls as of 2005 with around 6.5 million square feet of retail space and 7 different wings with themes of Amsterdam, California, the Caribbean, Egypt, Paris, Rome, and Venice, and, of course, an amusement park. Missing? Businesses and customers with few of the 1,500 retail spaces occupied in the suburban mall 70 miles north of Hong Kong.

9. World's tallest statue of a turtle riding a snowmobile - Tommy Turtle, in Bottineau, North Dakota, United States

As it's hard to pinpoint the world's tallest statue so BootsnAll instead chose a less controversial category. Tommy the Turtle stands 30 feet and he's riding a 34-foot-long snowmobile just about 10 miles south of the Canadian border.

(Editing by Belinda Goldsmith)

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