Americans groove at Burning Man Festival

Lamplighters make their way across the Playa during the Burning Man 2013 arts and music festival. ©REUTERS

Lamplighters make their way across the Playa during the Burning Man 2013 arts and music festival. ©REUTERS

Daniella Priebatsch photographs an art installation. ©REUTERS

Pippin, his Playa name, chats on the phone with God during the Burning Man 2013 arts and music festival. ©REUTERS

Dust envelops art installations during the Burning Man 2013 arts and music festival. ©REUTERS

Ranger Beauty, her "Playa" name, mans the perimeter around the Man before it is burnt. ©REUTERS

Participants begin to gather for the burning of the Man. ©REUTERS

Baltazar Santana watches as the Temple of Whollyness is burned. ©REUTERS

Ashlie Jump (L) and Boonda, his Playa name, watch as the Temple of Whollyness is burned. ©REUTERS

The Man burns. ©REUTERS

A participant makes her way around the flames as the Temple of Whollyness is burned. ©REUTERS

A firefighter keeps people from getting too close to the burnt remains of the Man. ©REUTERS

The Man burns. ©REUTERS

Jed Vassallo (L) and Erin Bohlmann cheer as the Man burns. ©REUTERS

A Burning Man participant kneels as she pays homage to the Temple of Whollyness while it burns. ©REUTERS

Rhonda Clark cooks hash browns for breakfast on the burned remains of the Man. ©REUTERS

Messages are left by participants at the Temple of Whollyness. ©REUTERS

Christin Meador is towed along the Playa by Adam Johnson at sunrise. ©REUTERS

The Man burns. ©REUTERS

Rasika Mathur (L) and Grant Ball look at messages left by participants at sunrise at the Temple of Whollyness. ©REUTERS

An art installation burns during the Burning Man 2013 arts and music festival. ©REUTERS

Participants climb an art installation before sunrise. ©REUTERS

Participants cuddle at sunrise at the Temple of Whollyness. ©REUTERS

Participants watch the sunrise from atop an art installation. ©REUTERS

Participants dance atop a moving "hookah lounge" art car. ©REUTERS

Participants dance during the Burning Man 2013 arts and music festival. ©REUTERS

Christian Jacobsen (C) adjusts the sand at the Guardian of Dawn art installation. ©REUTERS

A couple rest at a piano at a desert art installation at sunrise. ©REUTERS

Rochelle Schieck dances by the "Truth is Beauty" sculpture created by Marco Cochrane. ©REUTERS

Participants dance around and atop an art car parked beside the "Truth is Beauty" sculpture. ©REUTERS

Participants dance around and atop an art car parked beside the "Truth is Beauty" sculpture. ©REUTERS

Participants dance in a dance dome during the "Gold Bikini Happy Hour" hosted by Rat Camp. ©REUTERS

A participant who goes by the playa name "Honey B" drinks from bottles of champagne as she lies atop empty bottles in a shopping cart during the "Gold Bikini Happy Hour" hosted by Rat Camp. ©REUTERS

A Burning Man participant toasts the sunrise with a bottle of champagne. ©REUTERS