Experiences labelled with 'the burning man'
Despite a rather ominous name, the 8 day long Burning Man festival is an extremely peaceful gathering of artistically open individuals. The Burning Man festivities take place in Black Rock City, a temporary community on an ancient lake bed also known as the playa of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. Regardless of Burning Man Festival's temporary status it boasts a remarkable population, with over 47,366 dwellers in 2007, making it the third largest city in Nevada. Burning Man Festival is described by organizers as an experiment in community, radical self expression, and radical self reliance. Each year founder Larry Harvey creates a theme as a way of joining individual contributions together on a higher scale, which in 2009 is “Evolution”. The motto "No Spectators” ...
