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Tortoise sculpture.

Las Vegas, Nevada - Five Large Tortoises

Five giant, sculpted concrete 6 ft. tall x 15 ft. long desert tortoises ambling away from the freeway, looks like a public art project. They are at the "spaghetti bowl" interchange of the I-15/US 95/US and US93 freeways.

[mark rogers, 07/24/2007]

Interesting, but there's no way to pose next to them for photos without getting run over by freeway traffic....

Five Large Tortoises:
Directions:
At the freeway interchange of I-15 and I-515.

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