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Ready to burn: Thousands flock to Nevada for the annual Burning Man Festival...

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Tens of thousands have braved massive traffic jams to get to a remote stretch of Nevada desert for the annual Burning Man festival.

The highly-anticipated art and music festival runs over nine days from Sunday until September 4 in Black Rock Desert, which is about 120 miles north of Reno. 

Black Rock City has been transformed into a 'metropolis dedicated to community, art, self-expression and self-reliance' where about 70,000 people have descended upon.

In a matter of days, volunteers for the event built what is likely to be the state's busiest airport in the middle of an ancient dry lake-bed.  

The airport, formally known as 88NV, is built every year and averages as many as 800 takeoffs and landings a day before it's taken down completely at the end of the event.  

And so it begins: The annual Burning Man Festival kicked off on Sunday in Nevada where thousands of attendees plan to participate in the iconic event that features larger-than-life art installations, like the one pictured above

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And so it begins: The annual Burning Man Festival kicked off on Sunday in Nevada where thousands of attendees plan to participate in the iconic event that features larger-than-life art installations, like the one pictured above

Let's go: The highly-anticipated art and music festival runs over nine days from Sunday until September 4. Above two people ride in a golf cart that has been transformed into resemble a giant stuffed animal 

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Let's go: The highly-anticipated art and music festival runs over nine days from Sunday until September 4. Above two people ride in a golf cart that has been transformed into resemble a giant stuffed animal 

Furr-real: Stunning photographs show the larger-than-life art installations that are the focal points of this year's festival theme of Radical Ritual. The art installation above of the family of bears was created from thousands of pennies

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Furr-real: Stunning photographs show the larger-than-life art installations that are the focal points of this year's festival theme of Radical Ritual. The art installation above of the family of bears was created from thousands of pennies


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