Purists insist Burning Man isn't a festival, and annoyingly they're right: it's a temporary city of 70,000 in the Nevada desert with no line-up, no headliners and nothing for sale except ice and coffee. You bring everything, gift freely, and dance at sunrise beside art cars the size of galleons. Fly into Reno, join an established camp rather than winging it solo, and pack triple the water you think you need. The dust stays with you forever.
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