Woman Explains How to Shower at Burning Man Festival

Woman Explains How to Shower at Burning Man Festival

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Burning Man is a week-long communal celebration of art and inclusiveness in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. The days are extremely hot and the night is often freezing, but hordes of individuals make the trek every year. Except now, there's TikTok, and even if you can't go, you get to learn all about it through the videos of individuals who are there.

And in Angie's video, she explains how the showers work while she and tens of thousands of other people camp out somewhere where there is no standard running water or central electricity.

"So this is really funny, but I thought showers were included and that's what they told me," Angie says in the video. "So here, I'm thinking, like Planet Fitness-looking showers." But that's not the case at all.

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Angie explains that, in order to use the showers at Burning Man, you have to fill a bucket of water and attach it to a hanging hose. You then wave a key fob in front of a sensor and water comes down from a shower head.

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But it only lasts for around eight seconds and, according to Angie, it's best not to get the water in your mouth since it "tastes like vinegar." And it's not totally clear where the initial water comes from that you fill your bucket with at a station of makeshift spigots.

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I'm not saying I would forego showers the entire week of Burning Man to avoid these primitive showers (even though they have key fob technology). But in so many ways, the Burning Man showers seem unpleasant. The TikTok user even says in her caption, "I'm just going to be dirty. I've embraced the dust."

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