Kazantip (place) (1 of 11)
Most people west of Berlin have yet to hear of it, but long-term attendees complain that the annual rave Kazantip has become too commercial. Launched in the early 1990s as an apres-surf party near a half-finished nuclear reactor on the northeastern Kazantip peninsula, the one-month-long festival moved, because of local pressure, to Popovka, north of Yevpatoriya. Today 'the republic of Kazantip' is a huge Ibiza-style operation with enormous stage sets, international DJs such as Paul van Dyk and Armin van Buuren, more than 10,000 punters, many of them half-naked (or naked), dodgy food, deliberately humorous rules and lots of serious security. Too commercial? Probably, but the only way you'll make up your own mind is to visit.
