ReutersBurning Man festival-goers depart
NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 01:16
After being stuck in the mud for days, the tens of thousands of visitors to the Burning Man festival in the United States can go home. The road to and from the site has dried up enough and is passable again. “The driving ban has therefore been lifted,” the organizers report.
Due to heavy rains, some 70,000 visitors to the festival in Nevada’s Black Rock desert had been forced to stay in their camps since Friday and to use food and water sparingly.
The rain turned the desert into a sea of mud, which vehicles could hardly get through:
Burning Man desert festival turned into a quagmire
Festival Burning Man was created in 1986 as a celebration of the solstice, where a meter-high wooden man was set on fire by way of a bonfire. Since then, the event has grown into a massive annual desert festival. Tens of thousands of revelers, artists, hippies, anarchists and exhibitionists spend days building an experimental society in the desert during Burning Man.
The traditional burning of the meter-high wooden dummy has been postponed to later today due to bad weather. The ‘temple’ that is built annually by festival goers and set on fire at the end of the festival will be burned tomorrow.
2023-09-04 23:16:31
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