Rocking The Daisies was voted in our 300 List last year by its passionate South African community, and for good reason. It is the premier indie and electronic music festival in South Africa, and the country's largest music festival of its kind. Taking place an hour north of über-hip Cape Town in the impossibly beautiful South African wine country during the spring, the four-day, eleven-stage festival is the peace sign-throwing, EDM-obsessed relative of South African Burning Man offshoot, AfrikaBurn where festies gather to revel in the music, art, and each others' company.

Rocking The Daisies is the type of festival where, if you were to lose your friends, you’d be easily and happily accepted into another squad amongst the other 24,000 people within minutes. The camaraderie among the festival-goers is as ubiquitous as weed smoke at a reggae festival. It’s like a small, innocent town where no one locks their doors and everyone knows their neighbors, but with DJs blaring hypnotic melodies and thumping beats.

The festival's lineup isn't populated solely by DJs – year after year, it continues to get more diverse. This year, the lineup was more star-studded than ever: Foster The People, Mac Miller, Knife Party, Eats Everything, and dozens upon dozens more arrived ready to rock not only Rocking The Daisies, but the entire country's festival scene. Beardyman from the UK was a particular favorite of ours, delivering an impressive one-man beatboxing show. Everyone went nuts when Cape Town's Matthew Mole got on stage to jam with Pretoria's Gangs of Ballet, which was a moment emblematic of the festival's entire hometown-hero vibe. Indeed, it's one of the reasons RTD is such an important addition to our 300 List; any festival that represents the talent of its home country deserves high praise. This stunning variety of music works for those who enjoy both dancing for hours on end and laying sprawled out on a blanket gently bobbing your head to some mellow tunes.

Enjoy the photos below, which shine with vibrant costumes, art (including a piece from AfrikaBurn by Marcel de Quervain depicting a the head of a wolf howling at the moon), music, and festies doing it right in the Southern Hemisphere.