Heard about the burning man? Nope? Well this might just be the alternative trip for you.....
It’s a week long annual art festival held last August / early September (over America’s Labour Day) in the Black Rock Dessert that some 30,000 people attend. It started life on a San Francisco beach in the mid 80’s when Larry Harvey decided to burn a wooden ‘home-made’ statue of a man in allegiance to his father. The festival moved to its current location in 1990 when it had become so popular as to constitute a safety risk, and it became a more ‘formal’ gathering.
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