Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

Categories: Holidays and Festivals | North America

If you choose the most unusual festival in the world, then the "Burning Man" will clearly be one of the leaders. More than 65,000 participants gathered in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada for the 28th annual Burning Man Festival 2014.

For a whole week, people gathered from all over the world in the desert expressed themselves radically. In the middle of the sands, various unusual structures and installations were erected, often of fantastic shapes. Here you can meet hundreds of cars of the most incredible type, many participants walk around in costumes of characters, animals and various objects.

All this is the festival "Burning Man - 2014" - one of the most unusual events in the world.

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Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

1. "Burning Man" begins in the Nevada desert on the last Monday of August at exactly 00:01. It ends on Labor Day, a holiday celebrated in the United States on the first Monday in September. It is a public holiday for most organizations. Tent city. Black Rock Desert in Nevada on August 27, 2014. (Photo by Reuters | Jim Urquhart)

Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

2. The organizers of the Burning Man 2014 festival define it as an experiment in creating a community of radical self-expression, while relying only on itself. (Photo by Reuters | Jim Urquhart)

Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

3. Ahead - Man. At the end of the festival, it will be burned, and it will become Burning. (Photo by Reuters | Jim Urquhart)

Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

4. During the festival, various structures are erected, both ordinary and not so. (Photo by Reuters | Jim Urquhart)

Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

5. Installation "Hugs". (Photo by Reuters | Jim Urquhart)

Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

6. Pirate ship on wheels, August 26, 2014. (Photo by Reuters | Jim Urquhart)

Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

7. Festival "Burning Man - 2014" takes place in the Black Rock Desert in the US state of Nevada. This desert is a salt marsh and an endorheic lake. It is part of the dried up prehistoric lake Laontan, which existed 18-7 thousand years BC. during the last ice age. (Photo by Reuters | Jim Urquhart)

Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

8. Fights in an iron cage. (Photo by Reuters | Jim Urquhart)

Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

9. (Photo by Reuters | Jim Urquhart)

Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

10. Armchairs in the middle of the desert? Please! (Photo by Reuters | Jim Urquhart)

Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

11. Sandstorm. (Photo by Reuters | Jim Urquhart)

Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

12. At times, the sandstorm is such that almost nothing is visible. Even the big man. (Photo by Reuters | Jim Urquhart)

Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

13. Burning of the sculpture "Embrace". (Photo by Reuters | Jim Urquhart)

Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

14. The three main ways to express yourself here are original costumes, original vehicles and unusual installations. (Photo by Reuters | Jim Urquhart)

Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

15. And again a sandstorm. (Photo by Reuters | Jim Urquhart)

Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

16. “If you lost each other in our Department Store, meet in the center of the hall,” they usually say over the speakerphone. On the "Burning Man" everyone meets here at the Temple. Here you can search for lost things or write a message to someone. (Photo by Reuters | Jim Urquhart)

Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

17. Inside the Temple. (Photo by Reuters | Jim Urquhart)

Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

18. Photos, messages to each other. (Photo by Reuters | Jim Urquhart)

Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

19. Art installation "Superpool". (Photo by Reuters | Jim Urquhart)

Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

20. Local disco and DJ broadcasting from the top of a mutant car. (Photo by Reuters | Jim Urquhart)

Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

21. Beautiful light installations. (Photo by Reuters | Jim Urquhart)

Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

22. During the day, this installation looks no less mysterious. (Photo by Reuters | Jim Urquhart)

Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

23. The climax of the Burning Man festival occurs when a large wooden statue of Man is burned. This is the beginning of the ceremony, August 30, 2014. (Photo by Reuters | Jim Urquhart)

Burning Man Festival - 2014 in Nevada

24. The burning man disappears, the most unusual festival in the world comes to an end. (Photo by Reuters | Jim Urquhart)

Keywords: Burning man | Nevada | Unusual | Desert

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