Basically, it’s this insanely great and very historic (134 years!) festival on the Westman Islands in Iceland.

Here’s a nighttime shot.

And here’s a daytime one.

Note all the white tents. They serve a very similar function to theme camps, but each one holds about a dozen people, so it’s lots of small microclimates with different cool things going on – lots of acoustic music, food, drink, and merriness.

There is also art.

About 10,000 people come, and the atmosphere is more like Burning Man than anything I can imagine – chaos, creativity, community. I think some cross-fertilization from Burners would really, really rock hard.

Next year – hexayurts for sure!!!

Click here for some short video clips of the bonfire, the amazing flare ceremony, and the sing-along. There are also a few more pictures. I can’t stress how cool this all was, and the videos really show it much more clearly than the pictures.

Next year, recommended!