The orgies are lame. The sun is unforgiving. There’s 70,000 people partying on ‘the playa’: What it’s like going to Burning Man for the first time

Levi Bernard for Business Insider There are three of us, cramped inside a dusty Toyota that’s packed to the gills along with a triad of busted bicycles hanging precariously off the back. We are flanked on every side by travelers who, like us, have driven several hours to form what has turned out to be […]

The Playa Crawler is art that literally crawls

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Burning Man has a temporary airport for the 1% who take luxury helicopter rides to the playa

Instagram/Black Rock Helicopters Burning Man — the annual festival held in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert — kicked off August 27. Though tens of thousands of people travel there by car, those who can afford it choose to touch down on the playa by private plane or helicopter. Every year, volunteers build Black Rock City Airport from scratch […]