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It was with superlatives such as “Mad Max meets Disneyland” have been described. Many have tried and failed to assimilate the Burning Man and other festivals around the world, have parallels to Woodstock, the legendary rock festival that the left hand is celebrating while thousands rushed to the door and pulled the heavens opened to turn off the event with heavy rain.

England’s much celebrated three-day festival of music and the arts – Glastonbury, was also compared to Burning Man, and if it is likely that the next opponent is, the concept is very different from Burning Man. The truth is that Burning Man has seen a very special event, whose taste in the world ever.

Each year for five days, about 50,000 people visit the flat, dry desert playa of Black Rock, 120 miles north of Reno, Nevada. They are dedicated to a temporary community called Black Rock City, “the self-expression and radical self-criticism is form. Unlike other festivals – Burning Man is an event without trade, no burger vans, no bars, no shops and in fact there are only two things for sale in Black Rock City: coffee and ice, both found in the camp of the Center . Everything else (food, water and shelter) are introduced, or traded.

Black Rock Desert can be an unforgiving place, and subject to extreme conditions with daytime temperatures exceed 37 ° C, but at night it can drop to freezing. Thunderstorms and dust storms can occur with little notice, the transformation of the Playa in a massive mud puddle in a few minutes. In the absence of trees or natural shelters, wind 25 mph on average under normal conditions and 70 can achieve mph during a thunderstorm.

Unlike other festivals where entertainment is provided by the organizer – at the Burning Man festival, which the bets that are entertaining. There are no main stage, no attempt comedy, not a dance scene. Visitors are encouraged to participate in the creative culture of Burning Man of entertainment for others, whether in the form of amplified music, theater, performance, part sculpture – at Burning Man -. Almost anything goes

Travelers from all States and the rest of the world on Nevada rising each year, a part of this strange festival. En route – many nights in hotels in Carson City, Reno or other nearby settlements, seizing her chance for a normal night in civilization, deep in the desert before the next day

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What the future holds for Burning Man is uncertain, but the steady growth of this unique event is likely to continue to attract tens of thousands each year as long as the motto of the festival remains true:

“We will always burn people.”