See Glastonbury's surreal suburbs

The Glastonbury Festival is about much more than music, with spiritual and surreal experiences as important as the sounds. Sci-fi vehicles are in the Trash City area.

The Green Fields feature ecological and psychological services such as fortune telling (pictured), massage, yoga, meditation, astrology and visionary healing.

Festival-goers can try their hand at the trapeze with a safety harness and net in the circus field, which mixes adrenaline with comedy.

There are dozens of roaming performers, from stilt-walkers to wardens handing out Asbos to naughty children, tea ladies pushing trolleys in the mud and a gorilla carrying a human in a cage.

The festival site has been extended at the top of the hill above The Park area, giving revellers a chance to get a view over the site - they can also climb the 50ft Ribbon Tower.

At El Rhythmo Salsa Club, budding dancers get lessons in salsa and reggaeton from Saddler's Wells dancer Nigel May, with other classes teaching Bollywood and hip-hop.

Croquet in the mud with the vicar is de rigeur at the Trimley on the Marsh village fete. Visitors can also guess how many sweets are in the jar (there are four) and have a go at the Unlucky Dip (there's nothing in it).

Stone carving is one of the activities in the Green Crafts Field. There are also workshops in basket weaving, pottery and wood turning.

The Dukebox, in the offbeat Shangri-La section, is a human jukebox, with a live Texan band playing whichever songs the punters select, with the songs ranging from Bo Diddley to The Prodigy.

The NYC Downlow club in Trash City is a replica 1970s-style New York nightspot, described as the world's first travelling gay disco.

The Insect Circus Museum features insect puppets, posters and programmes and even a vintage wasp tamer's whip.

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