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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

The Ultra Music Festival - Split Croatia

The small city of Split is worthy of a tourist destination but with yatch week and the Ultra Music Festival, young travellers come rolling in droves. Like the migration of Glastonbury but instead of a field, tens of thousands arrive into Split, come plane, train or boat.

In the old town, you would be hard pressed to see a local person. Just about everyone has a backpack or a suitcase and a lost look on their faces.

There are all types of tourists. I even saw two scruffy guys holding a sign saying: "Couch surf please. For a big high five."

The Ultra Music festival is the first in Europe of atleast 60,000 attendees. I met people who had come from Miami and Mexico for the festival. Amongst the crowd were flags of many nations, lots from Australia.

We got in at 9pm and danced until 5am. The atmosphere was euphoric. Fireworks went off in Avicii's set and the sun rose by the closing of Nicky Romero.




The next night was even better. It helped that we didn't go in until closer to midnight. I was pretty tired from the previous nights of partying and planned to leave after Armin Van Burdin's 2 hour set. But when the following and closing set of Hardwell started, I couldn't. He was amazing! And again we danced until the sun rose.

What an amazing festival. Needless to say I got plenty of solid sleep after!

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