Burning Man
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Picture a nudist miniature golf course, an advanced pole-dancing workshop, a motorized magic-carpet vehicle and a bunch of neonpainted bodies glowing in the night, and you may be getting close to imagining what the legendary Burning Man is all about. Every year during the last week of August, several thousand digerati geeks, pyrotechnic maniacs, death-guild Goths, crusty hippies and too-hip yuppies descend on a prehistoric dry lakebed in the Nevada desert known to insiders as Black Rock City. It’s not the ideal place to consume a heady cocktail of alcohol and drugs – temperatures can exceed 100°F by day and the sun isn’t happy until it has bleached your bones white – but the thousands of anarchists, deviants, mad scientists, techno-heads, tracedancers and freakish performance artists that arrive here from all over the world every year give it their best shot.

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Where?
Black Rock City, Nevada, USA

When?
The week before Labor Day (first Monday in September)

How Long?
8 days
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