Les Dunes Electroniques Festival, a new music festival in Nefta, Tunisia, would make you feel like you're in a galaxy far, far away. The sets cocooned with sand dunes recreate fictional towns from the Star Wars universe such as the Tattooine town Mos Espa, as seen in Star Wars Episode 1: Phantom Menace. The place representing Mos Espa is known as Ong Jemal ("neck of the camel"), near the villages of Nefta and Tozeur, which lie on the edge of the vast Chott el-Gharsa salt lake.
The festival aims to ease Tunisian tensions by creating a getaway experience with a cool sci-fi twist. The people are inspired to wear their Star Wars outfits while they rave. While protests attempted to stop the festival, Dunes Electroniques was held without any violence or deaths.
Here's a description of the festival from Aljazeera America:
At first glance, it could be a dance festival anywhere in the world, but it’s distinctively Tunisian. Hipsters from the capital dance alongside locals wearing traditional burnooses, the long brown wool cloaks well known to “Star Wars” fans, over their jeans. The clash of modern with the old at the unusual event strikes a chord with some of the cultural shifts, economic issues and political transitions that Tunisia is facing in tumultuous times.
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