By Korea.net Honorary Reporter Alfonso Delgado
Photos = Alfonso Delgado
How I wished that the Boryeong Mud Festival was simply inwards Seoul. However, I wondered, if it were, could I become habitation to my Hannam-dong neighborhood riding the subway as well as the rider vehicle all muddied as well as dripping inwards gray dirt, as well as shunned past times the residue of the passengers similar I were a carrier of an incurable illness called 'mud addiction'?
As it happens, the Boryeong Mud Festival, which celebrates the local mud's therapeutic values mixed amongst summertime fun, is held inwards Boryeong City inwards Chungcheonnam-do Province on the western side of the Korean Peninsula, a two-hour displace from Seoul.
Fortunately, no thing how far Boryeong is from wherever y'all alive inwards Korea, you're certain to cause got a lot of fun this summertime if y'all larn inwards there.
I've been to the mud festival a few times already, as well as each see is fifty-fifty to a greater extent than enjoyable than the previous one. Although the festival pump is past times Daecheon Beach, at that topographic point are also other activities at the mud flats on the other side of the city.
At the mud flats, they concord a mud race for everyone who doesn't hear sprinting, sliding as well as stumbling inwards the mud spell trying to complete the race. I didn't bother joining the race, as I knew I would cause got to a greater extent than fun simply watching as well as taking photographs of the real competitive as well as muddied racers. Everyone was advised to vesture disposable socks spell running, as the shells on the beach could lacerate one's foot.
At the mud flats, they also concord what the organizers telephone telephone "mudflat extremes," where all participants vesture fatigue pants as well as dark long-sleeve shirts spell existence ordered past times a commanding officeholder to produce push-ups as well as other military-type exercises inwards the mud. Did I advert at that topographic point was also mud wrestling?
For those participating inwards the mud race as well as the "mudflat extremes," the outcome organizers render H2O trucks where participants tin shower off the mud as well as dirt afterward. Changing rooms are also provided. After cleaning themselves, participants are ferried dorsum to the primary outcome expanse close Daecheon Beach past times bus.
At the muddy metropolis center, where all the activeness is, Mud Square has all the less-strenuous, but as muddy fun activities, similar the mud slides, a mud prison, a muddy tug-of-war as well as other challenges, all inwards the yell of mud as well as moisture dirt.
Since it's all virtually getting dirty, I advise y'all don't vesture your most expensive white shirt or shorts to the festival. I ever wore my water-proof bluish shorts paired amongst a non-white dry-fit shirt. These are real slow to launder after. Also, vesture security sandals or perchance aqua shoes for the same reason.
By the way, y'all don't demand to convey your smartphone to Mud Square. Just convey your point-and-shoot photographic idiot box camera protected past times a waterproof illustration as well as sling it some your neck. This way, y'all tin yet capture your muddy fun moments that y'all tin upload afterward to Facebook or to your blog. Make certain the battery is fully charged, too. Don't forget to convey some cash for diverse entrance fees, nutrient as well as drinks inwards illustration y'all realize drinking muddy H2O doesn't just quench your thirst.
Since the terminal days of the festival is on a weekend, I would advise y'all pass that weekend at Boryeong to maximize your fourth dimension at the festival. During the day, they concord a real crazy rave political party at Daecheon Beach, as well as at dark revelers bask open-air concerts inside the festival expanse featuring well-known singers as well as performers. Both events are free.
So who else is heading downwards to Boryeong City to larn muddy this summer? This year, the fun starts on Friday, July 21, as well as ends on Sunday, July 30.
You tin either displace or accept the rider vehicle or develop to larn there. Here's the official Boryeong Mud Festival website for details on how to larn at that topographic point as well as how to larn all muddied up.
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