Ten breathtaking festival locations
Dance music with a view
5 Afrika Burn
Tankwa, South Africa
AfrikaBurn is the official African outpost of the Black Rock Desert's Burning Man and it takes place on Stonehenge Farm in the Tankwa Karoo National Park, South Africa. It is the largest of the 130 regional Burning Man events that take place across the globe, with 10,000 people attending this year's festival.
Every year it sees a barren section of the Karoo Desert transformed into a temporary town called Tankwa for the five-day party, with a series of elaborate sculptures resulting in what looks like the cast of Mad Max partying on the desert planet of Tatooine.
Convoys of 'mutant vehicles' (cars made up as things like giant snails and pirate ships) make the journey down an unpaved road, landing at the moon-like point, 160 miles between Calvnia and Ceres is the Northern Cape Town Province. Punctures are rife en route, with the track littered with signs telling passers that it eats rubber for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Once there, festivalgoers – famed for their elaborate fancy dress – have to face searing daytime temperatures (the festival was actually moved to Autumn in 2010 as the summer months proved too hot) and freezing desert nights.
AfrikaBurn takes place in late April
