Big Red Bash – the most remote music festival on the planet taking place in the world’s largest sand dune desert.” Big Red sand dune = Nappanerica (in the local indigenous language) Simpson Desert =MungaThirriNational Park The Simpson is the world’s largest desert of parallel sandhills with the dunes running north-south. Covering an area of 176,500km2 it is the fourth largest desert in Australia encompassing parts of Northern Territory, Queensland and South Australia. Big Red sandhill stands at 40 metres (130ft) in height and is the largest of 1,140 dunes that make up the Simpson. The campground at the eastern base of Big Red is actually a lake bed and affectionately called “Bashville” – it is a city in its own right with approaching 10,000 residents for the 3 days of entertainment. Each individual campsite has
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