Like its little sister Lincoln, Omaha is off the beaten track and off the main US Road Trip. Former capital of Nebraska, Omaha is still known today as Gateway to the West. It is the largest city in Nebraska with 400,000 inhabitants. If you are visiting Nebraska, Omaha is well worth a short stop of a few hours to a few days to discover this city where the past blends with the future and the old with the modern. Like many American cities, its downtown is full of a number of imposing buildings, but also smaller buildings with remarkable architecture. Undoubtedly, to miss a visit of the city if you are passing through would be a real waste. Downtown Omaha has a number of attractions, such as statues that revive the conquest of the American West and the Great Plains for tourists: these represent pioneers and their wagons crossing the Omaha Plains, as well as animals typical of these areas (buffalo and others). The city center also has an area called Old Market which turns out to be the historic center of Omaha and which has been rehabilitated into an open-air shopping center. he geographic center of the United States, Nebraska is a fly-over state: New York-San Francisco flights zebra the Omaha sky, but few passengers stop at Eppley Airfield, the local airport. With 447,000 inhabitants, Omaha is smaller than Atlanta, but larger than Miami or Toulouse. The 41st largest city in the United States is not famous for its beaches or jazz clubs, but for its steaks, slaughterhouses, investment banks and insurance companies. Once past the suburbs of Omaha and its light wood pavilions, the prairie recovers its rights. Corn fields and chalked roads on the plain. Two hours drive to Des Moines, three hours to Kansas City, six hours to Saint Louis or Minneapolis, eight hours to Chicago the 41st city of the United States is an island.