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Five frames.
Rainbow Serpent has run every year since 1998 in bush venue at Lexton, 130 km west of Melbourne. Four days of psytrance, electronic, and transformational programming with significant art-installation, ceremonial, and workshop components. The Australian psytrance scene built itself here. The festival's main programming runs in the bush amphitheatre during the day and on lit stages through the night. Camp setup is structurally important; the festival is as much about the camping community as the stages. The dawn sets on day three are the photographed peak.
Dawn sets on day three are the photographed peak. Camp setup is part of the festival.
The Australian transformational-festival anchor. Long-running, indigenous-respecting, programming-led.
Annual, four days late January. Australian summer is the listening season, though Victorian bushfire weather makes mid-festival risk-management critical. Avoid extreme heat days.
Annual four-day festival, late January. Gates open Friday afternoon, programme runs through Monday afternoon. Camping on site, no day tickets.
Drive from Melbourne 90 minutes west on the Western Highway to Lexton. Festival shuttles run from Melbourne CBD on opening day. The Lexton venue is signposted; rural roads, give yourself extra time.