Burning Man has wild copycat festivals all over the world - here's what they're like

Afrikaburn has taken place since 2007. The event is in Tankwa Karoo, which is in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. It adds an eleventh guiding principle to the usual Burning Man list of 10: "each one teach one," which asks participants to pass on their knowledge of the Burning Man culture to other people.

The May 2019 Crème Brûlée brought 550 Burners to a spot by a river in Creuse, at the center of France, for five days of music, art, workshops, yoga, and "the magic and the cuddles."

"For 2019 we promise to put more eggs in it, to double the sugar and to roll you up in the cream," the Facebook event description reads. "The cream must burn ... It's its destiny and our karma!"

"It's not a playa, it's a field of dirt," reads the website description for Nowhere, the annual Spanish Burning Man event that takes place "surrounded by rocky mountains in the scorched Spanish wilderness." Attendees are encouraged to construct "an art project, performance project, innovation project, workshop, event, art-car, barrio."

The Burning Seed equivalent of Black Rock City is "Red Earth City." The 2018 event took place in the Matong State Forest of New South Wales, according to the event guide.

Kiwiburn calls itself a "participatory festival" and "collective experience." The 2020 Kiwiburn will take place in January and the theme is "Eclectic Decade." Tickets cost $195, and the event is in Hunterville, about 120 miles from Wellington.

Burning Nest calls itself a "community arts & education festival." The 2019 festival took place in a secret location in Devon, England, in May. The location was a private landholding with two lakes as well as "sheltered glades, sculpted gardens, and forested walking trails."

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Greece moves Burning Man from the desert to the sea. The 2019 Pyraegea will set sail from the Lefkas Marina into the Aegean Sea in September. The event doesn't operate vessels itself; attendees charter boats themselves or bring their own yachts, and then everyone sails as a fleet.

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Borderland — "a collaborative community where we co-create events and gatherings as prototypes for our dreams" — took place most recently in Hedeland, Denmark, in July. The event's website asks: "What is it that separates dream from reality?" and "Can you define the thin line that separates the two?"

The 2019 Burning Burg took place in June. The first regional Burning Man event in Germany in 2008 was set at a rented-out hostel.

Where The Sheep Sleep calls itself a "a massive, immersive, interactive playground that we all build and live in." The four-day event has art installations and performances. The 2019 event began in June and had some delightfully wacky theme camp names, including: Barbie Death Camp, Circus of Life, Pebbles & BamBam, and What Could Possibly Go Wrong.

Urban Burn calls itself "the very bare bones version of a participatory festival." The 2019 event was at an indoor venue in Stockholm, which attendees were asked to transform into a "mythical landscape" through art.

Burning Japan 2019 takes place this October at Tsumagoi. The theme is "Hidden World."

The first Dragon Burn took place in 2014. Historically the event lasts four days and is set in the bamboo forests of Anji in Zhejiang. The 2019 event theme was "The Great Offline."

The first Tropical Burn took place this past June on a beach in Rio Grande do Norte. The event's theme was "Divine Mother."

Fuego Austral is the Argentinian offshoot of Burning Man. The 2020 festival will take place in February for six days.

Melia Robinson contributed to an earlier version of this story.