The Burning Man Festival

If you fancy painting yourself purple, and sunbathing nude in the desert for a week, alongside giant venus fly traps, dinosaurs, pyrotechnic motorbikes and glow in the dark insects on wheels, then head along to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada for The Burning Man Festival from 25th August-1st September this year.

Make sure to bring your shaman outfit, multi-coloured sunscreen and a selection of luminous wigs!

Join avant-garde artists, wild eyed hippies, alternative musicians and performers as they gather on the white sands to take part in this radical experiment in community, self expression and self reliance, which disappears every year without a trace. Anti-commercialism is part of the philosophy and a system of bartering has evolved where people exchange gifts or favours in place of money.

There's so much to do! Why not camp under the rainbows, make a suit out of light sticks, watch fire-eaters on psychedelic stilts, play a flaming tuba or get your palm read by a green genie? Then check out the art cars, watch Dr Mega Volt and his bevvy of Giant Conductors, experience the Ocean of Fire and watch lyrca clad acrobats tumble through the air on silk ropes...


Then as the sun makes its way below the horizon, woop at the sky and dance alongside thousands of your psychedelic compatriots as a giant wooden effigy disintegrates into flames...

Are there any takers? :)