Every year since 2007, a tent city has risen over a remote swath of desert outside Cape Town, South Africa. Thousands of people descend for the weeklong gathering, complete with crazy costumes, art installations, and all-night parties. The pop-up city disappears in seven days.

Sound familiar? It's Africa's version of the famous Burning Man festival.

Founded in 2007, AfrikaBurn is a regional event sanctioned by the organizers of Burning Man. It's similar to the annual counterculture gathering in Black Rock Desert, Nevada, but with more nudity and smaller crowds. Some have described the festival as what Burning Man was like 10 years ago, before it became a cultural phenomenon.

These photos give us a glimpse of what it's like to attend AfrikaBurn.

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Welcome to AfrikaBurn — Africa's version of Burning Man.

The festival draws over 13,000 people annually, making it the largest outpost of 130 regional Burning Man events around the world and the biggest arts festival in Africa.

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By comparison, the original Burning Man festival in Nevada is attended by 70,000 people.

Because AfrikaBurn is more intimate than its counterpart in the states, some people say it's "like Burning Man, but better." Burners travel from around the world for the event.

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This year's Burning Man— the wild, weeklong, annual festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert — will start on August 27.

Tens of thousands of people are expected to venture to the desert and follow a 31-year tradition of creating a temporary city, making art, throwing nonstop parties, and burning "the man" (a 100-foot flammable structure that resembles a stick figure). 

Another essential part of Burning Man is the costumes, which usually include some combination of unicorn horns, goggles, Mylar spacesuits, and glow-in-the-dark gear. Burning Man's fashion has changed since its founding in 1986, when just 35 people attended.

From t-shirts to spandex bodysuits, take a look at the evolution of the festival's fashion below.

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Burning Man started in 1986, when a group of 35 people set a "man" made of scrap lumber ablaze on a San Francisco beach. They wore casual jeans, overalls, and t-shirts.

By 1990, when Burning Man had grown to around 350 attendees, people began experimenting with punk-inspired costumes.

But others still chose to sport casual wear, as seen in this 1991 photo:

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 on a dusty road a week before the festival starts. As USA Today notes, crews section off runways, make customs checkpoints, and direct planes and 'copters when they arrive. Neither the FAA nor the TSA is officially associated with the BRC airport, but they keep in close contact with airport's managers.

Not every Burner that uses the airport is ultra-rich, but most of the Burning Man's wealthiest attendees arrive there. Paris Hilton, for instance, flew into the playa by helicopter with a group of friends mid-way through the 2016 festival.

Helicopter companies also offer special charters just for Burning Man. Santa Monica-based company Burner Air, for example, is offering direct, private flights from Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Reno to the playa. 

"Our flights land on the playa at Black Rock City Airport so you can be at your camp within minutes of landing,"its website reads. "Burning Man flights start at $599 and are a great way for Theme Camps to fly to Burning Man. Avoid the traffic and travel in style."

Black Rock Helicopters is also advertising a ride between Reno, Nevada, and the Black Rock City Desert on a S76 jet. The company recently posted an Instagram of Will Smith, who presumably took a chopper to the playa.

The video below, which boasts that the helicopter has room for eight people and 600 pounds of cargo, makes it look pretty luxurious. White girls in the ad even wear fashionable lingerie and native-American–style headdresses, despite numerous other Burnersrecent pleas against the cultural appropriation.

Though Black Rock Helicopters doesn't post the price for its service, Burners often pay between $500 to $2,500 for other similar, luxury charters (depending on the plane and distance). Here's one from Santa Barbara Helicopters, which decorated the craft's interior with colorful pillows and rugs for Burners.

 In recent years, some Burners have spoken out about the exclusive nature of people flying in on jets. Larry Harvey, the festival's founder, wrote in 2014 that wealthy Burners who throw their own exclusive ragers on the playa clash with the fundamental principles of Burning Man: self-reliance and community. In the recent years, billionaires like Google's Larry Page and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg have also been spotted on the playa with the who's who of Silicon Valley.

But a fancy ride and luxe party sure do look good on Instagram.

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The INSIDER Summary:

• Every year, Burning Man festival organizers rebuild and take down Black Rock City for the festival.
• The festival grounds are shaped like a giant clock.
• It has a symbolic meaning, but it also allows for a helpful address system.
  

Every year, the Burning Man festival creates and destroys a temporary city in the Black Rock Desert. Black Rock City is shaped like an enormous wheel, with eight different segments and an open space on one end.

Why the weird shape? There are aesthetic reasons for it, of course. There's a symbolism that goes into the "Wheel of Time,"as the organizers call it. But there's also a functional purpose to the circle: it makes an address system.

In 1999, Burning Man organizers came up with the shape to mark the close of the millennium. On the inside, the famous "Playa" at the festival's center is supposed to be a giant circle divided into 60 units. They're encased in 12 larger units, so it looks like a clock spanning half a mile of desert.

Surrounding that are eight sections, each one named after a planet that orbits the sun. The sections are separated by "circumferential streets," crossing through the circle. And then there are "radial streets," which go around the arc.

It's a little confusing, so here's an illustration to show you how it works, modified from the Burning Man website.

With even more subdivisions, for minutes and second, you can effectively given an address for every person in the circle. One example address is "5:24 Mars."

The whole planetary system is pretty confusing. In more recent years, Black Rock City started using just hours and minutes to denote addresses.

Having an address is helpful for meeting up with people and scheduling your time at Burning Man. It's also helpful for emergency vehicles, who are on hand in case of fire, or if the dusty Nevada desert conditions get too tough.

At the end of each festival, Burning Man attendees clean up after themselves and leave no trace of it behind. The next year, they build it all up again. It works thematically with the shape of the festival itself, ending and renewing itself as time goes by.

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Every year, around 70,000 people flock to Nevada's Black Rock Desert for the annual Burning Man Festival. This year's festival began on August 27 and will end on September 4.

Festival attendees have been known to make some crazy fashion choices in the past, and so far this year is no different. While trends like unicorn-themed memorabilia, tutus, and LED lights have been popular in the past, there's no way of predicting which trends will dominate at this year's music and arts festival.

As the festival goes on, INSIDER will keep an eye on Burning Man and the craziest styles to come out of the Playa. Keep scrolling to get an inside look at the legendary festival's fashion so far.

To shield themselves from desert sandstorms, Burners wear protective gear. This festivalgoer wore oversized goggles, a scarf with a penguin print, and a captain's hat.

A group of people wore white robes with flames on them as they walked through the desert.

This festivalgoer wore a colorful head covering with a pair of jewel and Troll Doll-adorned ski goggles, a scarf wrapped around her face, a printed bodysuit, and several necklaces.

Temperatures reached near triple-digits in Black Rock City, Nevada, on Monday — where the music and arts festival Burning Man is underway — but it didn't stop winter from coming.

Attendees at Burning Man were treated to a screening of the "Game of Thrones" season seven finale the day after it aired, after festival-goers made pleas across the internet for a way to watch it.

The annual counterculture festival takes place in a remote swath of desert, where high-speed internet and cable TV are hard to come by.

Reddit user jaxdesignsaid their theme camp, Beans Beans the Musical Camp, projected the highly anticipated finale on a screen inside the camp, shortly after sundown on Monday. 

"It's real. Beans beans the musical camp at 9:30 and E. our setup is really amazing, projector with huge screen, massive speakers. See you then," jaxdesign posted earlier in the day.

"Game of Thrones" fans rejoiced. "Thank you for your service," one Redditor wrote.

When burners first caught wind that the season finale fell on day three of Burning Man, some diehard fans of the show took to the internet to express their heartbreak.

"I hate to be this guy but I really don't want the episode spoiled for me while I'm on the playa," reddit user Cassaroll168 wrote a month before the event.

People who stayed behind while their friends went to Burning Man had a laugh.

See pictures of the "Game of Thrones" screening at Burning Man? Send us your photos at mrobinson@businessinsider.com. 

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Burning Man— the enormous festival held in Nevada's Black Rock Desert each year — hosts giant art installations, wild dance parties, and a mega-tall wooden structure of "the man" that attendees set on fire at the end of the event.

Burning Man's organizers set up an official livestream, which has broadcast the playa since August 30. It shows tents and RVs as far as the eyes can see, as well as burners riding across the desert by bike.

Take a look at the livestream, which resembles a scene from "Mad Max:"

Since 1990, Burning Man has been held in Nevada's Black Rock City, a temporary, large-scale camp burners set up in the shape of a semi-circle for the festival. (For four years prior, the event happened on a San Francisco beach.)

In 2016, approximately 70,000 people descended on Black Rock City. Just as many are expected to have come to this year's festival, which began on August 27.

2017 may be Black Rock City's hottest year on record, according to SF Gate. Forecasters expect temperatures to exceed 100 degrees on Saturday and Sunday.

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Over the last 31 years, Burning Man has evolved from a bonfire among friends in San Francisco to an international mega-event attended by modern-day hippies and tech moguls alike.

Nearly 70,000 so-called burners descended on the "playa" in a Nevada desert last week for the annual counterculture gathering. The festival is offering its standard fare of surreal art installations, over 130 musical acts, celebrity sightings, and out-of-this-world fashion.

Some say you have to experience the world of Burning Man to understand its magic. In the meantime, these photos of Burning Man 2017 offer a glimpse of what it's like to attend.

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Each year, a city rises on a remote swath of desert in Nevada. Burners call this temporary metropolis "Black Rock City."

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The festival forms in the same shape every year: a giant semi-circle.

Nearly 70,000 people, known as "burners," come for the nine-day event.

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Juicero — the Silicon Valley company known for its $400, Wifi-enabled juicer — shut down and suspended sales of its presses and produce packs Saturday.

Meanwhile, its founder and raw food evangelist Doug Evans is in the Nevada desert for Burning Man, the annual festival known for its wild art, costumes, and parties.

Evans has posted several Instagrams at the festival in the past few days. In the one below, he blows fire from a tricked-out bicycle:

Juicero shuttered after nearly four years of operation. The company initially priced its juicer at $699 in 2016, but then reduced it to $399 earlier this year. That was after Bloomberg reported that Juicero's fruit and veggie packs didn't actually need a Juicero machine. Users could just squeeze the juice out by hand.

For that reason, the company — which had become a poster child for Silicon Valley's lavishly funded gadget startup culture — was routinely criticized for attempting to solve a problem that didn't exist. It also raised some $120 million.

In another recent Instagram video below, wearing a rainbow tutu, Evans disappears from view into a sand storm. 

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A man has died after running into an inferno at Burning Man.

Aaron Joel Mitchell ran through two layers of security officers and into an effigy at the annual gathering in Nevada's Black Rock Desert on Saturday night, Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen said, as cited by the Associated Press.

The 41-year-old was pulled from the flames by firefighters, treated on the scene, and transported to Burning Man's on-site medical facility.

He was then airlifted to the UC Davis Firefighters Burn Institute Regional Burn Center, which is 300 miles away, according to a statement by Burning Man's organisers.

Mitchell died shortly after arriving at the burn center on Sunday morning.

Officials said attempts to rescue Mitchell from the flames were obstructed because parts of the effigy were falling and firefighters had to wait for the structure to fall before saving him, according to the AP.

Reuters photographer Jim Bourg captured the moment Mitchell ran into the flames and fell over. Business Insider has chosen not to publish the whole sequence of images.

Mitchell was an American citizen who was living in Switzerland with his wife, Allen said. This was his first time at Burning Man, Mitchell's mother Johnnye Mitchell told the Reno Gazette-Journal.

Burning Man is an annual nine-day event, at which tens of thousands congregate in Black Rock Desert and build a new city from scratch, only to dismantle or burn everything before leaving. More than 70,000 people attended this year, the AP said.

Attendees — also known as "burners"— close the festival by torching massive structures, such as the one that killed Mitchell over the weekend. Attendees have attempted to run into the flames to symbolise rebirth, the AP noted.

Event organisers cancelled scheduled "burns" on Sunday afternoon but carried out its final burn of a massive wooden temple in the evening, Reno Gazette-Journal reported.

Federal officials originally wanted the Burning Man organisers to call it off, but organisers proceeded anyway, this time with the added security of a metal fence and more than 600 volunteers and staff surrounding the structure.

"We are showing the government we can step forward," Burning Man co-founder Crimson Rose said, according to the Reno Gazette-Journal. "It is a testament to our spirit. We have a ritual to complete."

Doctors said Mitchell wasn't under the influence of alcohol at the time, but a toxicology report is pending, Allen said.

"Our hearts and prayers go out to Aaron's family during this unexpected tragedy," he added, particularly "for juveniles who are allowed to attend the festival and may not have the same coping skills as adults do when they see something this tragic happen before their eyes."

Emotional support teams have been made available for participants and staff on site, Burning Man said in its statement.

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Every year, nearly 70,000 people flock to a desert city in Nevada for the annual Burning Man festival. Located in Black Rock City, Nevada, the week-long festival is known for extreme fashion, sandstorms, and a star-studded guest list.

This year, celebrities like heiress Paris Hilton and DJ Diplo made the trip to the Playa, as Black Rock City is affectionately referred to. In particular, there were a ton of Victoria's Secret models in attendance who turned up wearing everything from lace-up snakeskin boots to butterfly wings.

Keep scrolling to see the list of celebrities who made an appearance at this year's festival.

Victoria's Secret Angel Jasmine Tookes fittingly wore a pair of feathered wings to the festival.

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Tookes wore a sparkly face covering and headband, fringed black bodysuit, spiked bra, and a coin-adorned belt around her waist.

Victoria's Secret Angel Martha Hunt sported a pair of teal bike shorts and a decorated bra during the festival.

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Hunt completed the look with a pair of tie-dye socks. The model dressed practically to travel the large festival grounds via bike.

Paris Hilton attended Burning Man for the second time.

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The heiress, singer, and reality TV star enjoyed the festival so much last year that she decided to go back for a second time. And, of course, she rolled up in style.

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In Japanese artist Hiroto Ikeuchi's designs, you'll find clusters of plastic, circuit boards, and electrical wiring.

At first glance, you might not think his cyberpunk-style masks, headsets, and other pieces would functional, but they are. Every last piece. 

Take a look at his apocalyptic gadgets:

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Meet the Tokyo-based artist, Hiroto Ikeuchi.

His designs take the shape of masks, headsets, goggles, earphones and dioramas, all decked out with unmistakable cyberpunk fixings. 

If you've seen "The Matrix" trilogy or Ridley Scott's 1982 "Blade Runner," you probably have a good grip on the cyberpunk concept.

Cyberpunk is defined as a science-fiction subgenre of steampunk that usually features computer technology dominating futuristic urban societies.

Cyberpunk began as a literary genre before trickling into film. Ikeuchi told Business Insider that only recently had he seen "Blade Runner" and learned about cyberpunk in general.

When it's nearly 100 degrees in the middle of the Nevada desert, clothing is limited, and sometimes even optional at Burning Man — "an annual art event and temporary community based on radical self expression and self-reliance in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada."

But for those who do choose to wear clothing, it's all about the costumes.

And the ornate outfits have become a huge part of the festival.

Bikinis, body paint, tutus, masks, headdresses, wigs, floral crowns and feathers — it's all there!

Often all worn at once.

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Everyone uses bikes to get around the Burning Man desert.

But that doesn't stop people from breaking out their best costumes.

Fancy hats are common.

He would be hard to miss among the crowds.

Like this creative dog-in-a-cage one.

Elon Musk, who famously came up with the idea for SolarCity while at Burning Man a few years back, once said"Burning Man is Silicon Valley."

Judging from the photos of tech moguls, startup founders, and venture capitalists that have surfaced since the annual counterculture festival began, we're guessing Musk is right.

We rounded up the best photos of tech workers sweating it out on the playa.

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User experience designer Olia Birulia made the well-traveled trek from San Francisco to Burning Man in 2016, and made some friends along the way.

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Emily Hsiung, a product designer at Uber, left for 2017 Burning Man with the 7 Sirens Cove theme camp. She helped make this sign with a computer-controlled cutting machine.

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Will O'Brien, an angel investor and chief operating officer of cloud-analytics platform Keen IO, couldn't resist the chance to fly direct to Burning Man's pop-up airport in 2016.

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Burning Man is many things.

It is a place where 65,000 people descend on a 7-square-mile patch of Nevada's Black Rock Desert, getting whipped by sandstorms and, of course, burning "the man."

But as the "leave no trace" rule declares, Burning Man is not a giant garbage can. Everything set up at the start of the week must come down.

This before-and-after image, created by the Daily Overview with satellite imagery from DigitalGlobe, reveals just how great of an undertaking that can be. Slide the bar to see the transition.

To make sure the "leave no trace" rule is upheld, Burning Man relies on a Playa Restoration Team (The "playa" is the land used during the festival).

Crews of people determine which areas have the most trash — or, as Burners call it, "matter out of place," or MOOP.

They color-code the areas based on severity, green being the lightest MOOP areas, yellow being moderate, and red being the most moopy — Burning Man's words, not mine — and have a line of people clean up each area.

Then the transformation back into an ordinary desert is complete.

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Over the weekend, 70,000 people known as "burners" will descend on a remote swath of desert in Black Rock City, Nevada to dance, sweat, and find themselves at the 2017 Burning Man festival. Attendees will be treated to surreal art installations, workshops, and all-night parties.

Devotees of the decades-old festival have taken the free-spirited philosophy of Burning Man to their own countries and launched affiliated events where the same principles endure. Photos of these gatherings show they're more or less the same, despite being thousands of miles apart.

Let's take a closer look at three regional Burning Man festivals in the world.

This could be a photo of a Burning Man event anywhere in the world.

It happens to be Midburn, a six-day arts festival in Israel.

The first Midturn took place in 2014, two years after a group of friends came home from Burning Man and decided to create events that would channel the spirit of the festival.

Among the 70,000 or so people who will make the trip to Black Rock City, Nevada, this weekend for the start of Burning Man will be some of the most influential people in Silicon Valley. 

Every year, some of tech's top execs join the annual festival, dressing in shiny costumes and exploring the art installations just like everyone else. 

The unwritten rules of the festival encourage anonymity and privacy. But the attendance of some of the CEOs and founders has been revealed by one of their enthusiastic peers on Medium. And many members of the tech elite have found their time on the playa — Burning Man speak for the dusty dry lake bed where the festival takes place — so life-changing that they couldn't help but speak about it publicly.

While nicknames and creative costumes often make it difficult to know if you've run into someone famous at the festival, a little knowledge can go a long way. These are the powerful techies known to hang out in Black Rock City.

Who knows? You might just run into one of them on one of the festival's famous art cars. 

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Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX

Not only has Musk taken more than one pilgrimage to Black Rock City, he's also gone on the record touting the annual art festival as an integral part of Silicon Valley culture. 

Musk has even been spotted covered in dust at In-n-Out, a popular stop for Burning Man attendees seeking their first post-festival meal. The restaurant draws crowds in no small part because of its proximity to both the freeway and the event. 

Sergey Brin and Larry Page, founders of Google

Brin and Page have reportedly attended the event repeatedly over the years, enthusiastically. To disguise their identities, they've worn full spandex body suits, according to published reports. And they've encouraged Google employees to attend, even running a free shuttle bus to the event.

But no anecdote captures Google's relationship to Burning Man quite like the story of Brin's separation from 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki.

The couple separated in 2013 because Brin was having an affair with one of his employees, Amanda Rosenberg. After initially keeping the separation secret, Brin reportedly decided to publicly reveal it before that year's Burning Man, because he planned to attend the event with Rosenberg. 

Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google's Alphabet

It's not hard to find photos of Schmidt in the sort of Mad Max-meets-clown attire that is so common at the festival. But attending Burning Man hasn't always been a chance for Schmidt to get in touch with his wild side. 

Brin, Page and Schmidt have all said publicly that Schmidt worked his way into the Google CEO job while networking at the festival. Google's founders reportedly picked Schmidt because his love for the event indicated he would fit in well with Google's culture.

Every year since 2007, a tent city has risen over a remote swath of desert outside Cape Town, South Africa. Thousands of people descend for the weeklong gathering, complete with crazy costumes, art installations, and all-night parties. The pop-up city disappears in seven days.

Sound familiar? It's Africa's version of the famous Burning Man festival.

Founded in 2007, AfrikaBurn is a regional event sanctioned by the organizers of Burning Man. It's similar to the annual counterculture gathering in Black Rock Desert, Nevada, but with more nudity and smaller crowds. Some have described the festival as what Burning Man was like 10 years ago, before it became a cultural phenomenon.

These photos give us a glimpse of what it's like to attend AfrikaBurn.

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Welcome to AfrikaBurn — Africa's version of Burning Man.

The festival draws over 13,000 people annually, making it the largest outpost of 130 regional Burning Man events around the world and the biggest arts festival in Africa.

Source: Africa News

By comparison, the original Burning Man festival in Nevada is attended by 70,000 people.

Because AfrikaBurn is more intimate than its counterpart in the states, some people say it's "like Burning Man, but better." Burners travel from around the world for the event.

Source: BuzzFeed

This year's Burning Man— the wild, weeklong, annual festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert — will start on August 27.

Tens of thousands of people are expected to venture to the desert and follow a 31-year tradition of creating a temporary city, making art, throwing nonstop parties, and burning "the man" (a 100-foot flammable structure that resembles a stick figure). 

Another essential part of Burning Man is the costumes, which usually include some combination of unicorn horns, goggles, Mylar spacesuits, and glow-in-the-dark gear. Burning Man's fashion has changed since its founding in 1986, when just 35 people attended.

From t-shirts to spandex bodysuits, take a look at the evolution of the festival's fashion below.

SEE ALSO: 23 of the most incredible works of Burning Man art ever made

Burning Man started in 1986, when a group of 35 people set a "man" made of scrap lumber ablaze on a San Francisco beach. They wore casual jeans, overalls, and t-shirts.

By 1990, when Burning Man had grown to around 350 attendees, people began experimenting with punk-inspired costumes.

But others still chose to sport casual wear, as seen in this 1991 photo: