🔥The Burning Man🔥

*Source:* https://gallery.burningman.org/

Welcome to today’s festival, although more than a festival today’s is an event, a great congregation in Black Rock City, an ephemeral city that is built every year in the middle of the Nevada’s desert to celebrate the Burning Man, this year 2019 will be the August 25th to September 2sd. Please do not confuse with the falles of València (Spain), which is something else entirely.

The event is one of those incidents that it is hard to describe, even explain, because the goal of attending the festival is more related to feelings than to the senses.

The starting point may sounds crazy to many. Create a city from nothing without electricity or natural water. It’s not just any city, it’s one in which seventy thousand of people will live for more than a week, and for the city to be sustainable you have to follow the rule of the game “leave no trace”, these means nothing to leave dirt on the floor, even the holes in the earth have to be replaced to their natural state before leaving.

Burning Man is not a festival, it is not a concert, it is not a camp and it is not a holiday place either. Attending involves accepting risk, being prepared, facing extreme situations and leaving prejudices at home.

There you can live the best and worst experience of your life, because in the middle of the Black Rock desert there is no commerce, you cannot buy water, food, medicine or clothing. What you bring is what you have. There is only one thing that can be bought, and it is ice, it is the most precious good to be able to drink cold water and to be able to keep food fresh.

No, Burning Man is not for everyone, there are many discomforts to overcome such as sleeping for a week in a tent where you cannot be when the sun rises, or that your bathroom will be used by you and thousands of others of people, without forgetting that you are in the middle of the desert where sandstorms occur.

The most common means of transport is the bicycle, turned into true works of art, and do not forget that the concept of personal expression ranges from the bicycle itself to clothing and attitude, everything is allowed.

This is an extreme place that maintains its inclusive character, of community, with which it was born between two friends in 1986 in the bay of San Francisco. Since then it has grown exponentially, so much that today getting an entry is a great feat, believe me I have tried but the student concepts with low income and having to cross half the world are not very friendly with this type of experience.

People from all over attend, eager to share, enjoy and make the experience something very valuable. Speaking of sharing, many people attend to offer something to others in exchange for nothing. Drinks, ice cream, potatoes, massages, parties or games, anything to be part of the community that for a few days represents the best essence of the human being.

Everything began with the burning of a small effigy, nowadays the scale is much greater, but the tradition is maintained, and the culmination of the event is when tens of thousands of people contemplate together the burning of the gigantic artistic sculpture. Not valencians, I do not talk about our falles which I love so much, although this sounds so much to you, it takes place a little farther at a 9.000km, do not get angry with me but the Burning Man is something worth seeing, living and feel by yourself, and when my time arrives, I’ll be there and I hope, maybe, with some of you! Now you have read this, do you think we will see each other? And if you have been there, what was your impression?

At the samba rhythm!

Today’s story is one of those that is never forgotten. This is the story of the biggest festival in the world that we all dream to going at least once in a lifetime. Logically I am talking about the Rio de Janeiro’s carnival in Brazil.

I already tell you that this is crazy, let’s start from the beginning. But before everything, let me tell you about this special city among mountains. Indeed, this city is a city between mountains and that is what makes it so special.

Yes, it has many beaches that are the main tourist attraction, but they are not just beaches, they are beaches between mountains. There the normal thing is that shines a radiant sun and a humidity able to leave ironing to anyone, by the way, here the sport is very present and not only by the sculptural bodies of the majority, blessed genes, but because every few meters there are stations of free exercise.

What a tourist can do is to enjoy at the maximum some beaches, of which I will speak on another day because there is much to say about them, ah and renting a public bike is cheaper than you could think. Speaking a bit about the money, there the currency is the Brazilian Real, four reales would come to be one euro more or less. For me, coming from Spain, it seems a cheap country, although in the rest of the Latin American countries at least Rio de Janeiro is quite expensive.

And now, let’s go back to the carnival. For almost a month, many cities in Brazil are paralyzed, but if there is one that lives the carnal in a big way that is without a doubt Rio de Janeiro. Day and night the blocos follow each other, which are marches in the street, organized or not and are always an explosion of joy, music and improvisation. It is known where and when they start but nobody knows where they will end, neither when, nor how. Improvisation and fun to power!

During the party one goes like crazy during the whole day, at night and at dawn, and although all the blocos are different there are some so, soo, soooo missives that for someone who is not Brazilian it ends up being even too much.

During the days of carnival, the city is a sea of people in the streets, in the beach and in the jewel in the crown, does anyone guess what I mean? Well, I do mean the Sambódromo del Marqués de Sapucía. With its imposing 550 meters long, this temple of samba is integrated by the best schools in Rio. For an hour, each samba school parades giving the best of himself with up to six floats and a number of people who could be counted by thousands in each school, a real madness!

What makes this event great is the joy, because carnival is joy. During five days of celebration, millions of people take to the streets to the party driven by the rhythm of the samba and infected by the exuberant beauty of a city in the middle of a generous nature of beaches and mountains, where the sun shines on the rich vegetation to give the city a tropical climate.

The carnival is for everyone and at least for those five days, the differences do not matter. There are no rich or poor, there is no more than a skin tone, no religions (although the festival began with a Christian culture) or sexual orientations. And that’s where the beauty of the event resides from my point of view. A united society constituted, for the most part, by a suffered people and has the chance once a year to download energy and share joy.

Undoubtedly, it is a unique experience that, ironically, is repeated every year, but who goes there is no other pleasure in the mouth but the desire to be able to go through this experience again and again. What do you say? Do you dare?

The jungle’s beat!!🦜

*http://conciertosperu.com.pe/internacional/festival-selvamonos-2016-line-up-y-precios-de-entradas/*

Do you like wild nature? What do you say about traveling? Tired of conventional music? If the answer is affirmative, what would you say if I can tell you that you can enjoy all three at the same time?

I mean the Selvámonos festival. The biggest festival of alternative music that is celebrated in the wonderful and exotic country of Peru concentrates people of different nationalities who live together for a weekend in the Oxapampa jungle.

This year’s edition will take place on June 28 and 29. You and your friends could enjoy all kinds of music, gastronomy, art, nature and make new friends to spend unforgettable moments camping immersed in the natural wealth in the jungle.