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Anyone care to explain WHAT Burning Man is for those of us who are less enlightened?
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in short: BurningMan is whatever you want it to be.
It takes place in the Highly inhospitable black rock desert of Nevada. The desert is flat rock, with white dust that permeates EVERYTHING. Temperatures go from extremes of 20 at night, to 110 in the day.
BurningMan is NOT a spectator event. BurningMan IS a Participatory event.
If you go, go to experience, and to be a part of it. Go and bust out. Do what is YOU and share it with 40,000 of your newest, closest friends and enemies. It's all about life.. art..... people spend literally thousands of dollars and all year creating the most beautiful installations for the event.
It's a hippy fest in the sense that each person is expected to be socially and environmentally responsible... not to mention, money is not allowed except for buying water and coffee. Bartering encouraged. The hippie aspect ends there.
Art.
There are bands. There are DJs.
I'm into goa trance, and the last few years the biggest acts in the world played. I heard the similar happened for people into other kinds of music.
As far as the rave/drug comment... it's not a rave... and from what I understand, you'd have to be a total fucking idiot to want to be on drugs while there. The whole experience makes you high - why endanger yourself by ingesting something?
I won't make it this year... next year tho...