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Have yous e'er dreamed of having a fun filled weekend inward the mud? Then Boryeong Mud Festival is calling your name.
Boryeong Mud Festival is a yearly resultant that takes house nigh 200 km from Seoul inward the minor beach town of Boryeong, South Korea. Since its start inward 1998, it has attracted over 2.2 1000000 visitors. The festival is a ii calendar week resultant that takes house inward July. This twelvemonth it is beingness held from July 18-29.
A grouping of friends in addition to I joined 'The Seoul Expat Global Meetup Group' to attend a 2 solar daytime remain at the festival. Included inward our trip was overnight accommodations, dinner in addition to breakfast, mud carnival tickets, mud kick camp, in addition to circular trip jitney fair. The trip inward sum damage 85,000 won per person. There are a plethora of groups offering trips similar this to Mud Fest. They are easily works life online through a Google search. It is also tardily to accept the develop to Boryeong in addition to volume a hotel inward the area. Be warned, however, hotels, trains in addition to buses produce fill upward up in addition to should hold upward booked good inward advance.
We began our weekend alongside a 2.5 hr jitney ride to Boryeong. Like most of the solid set down move experiences inward Korea, this motility took us through acres in addition to acres of rice patties. The fields were lush from the rainy flavor in addition to made for a beautiful view. As nosotros neared the beach, our sentiment changed equally the sea opened earlier us.
We stayed overnight at the Nova Hotel, located a block from the beach in addition to unopen to the chief events of Mud Fest. The hotel has beach views in addition to kitchen facilities. Some rooms had beds in addition to others had traditional Korean Sleeping Mats.
After unpacking nosotros headed towards the beach to lead maintain luncheon earlier joining inward the mud festivities. Seafood is fresh in addition to plentiful inward Boryeong. Our grouping decided to effort our outset Korean Seafood hot pot. The massive bowl was filled alongside spicy broth in addition to a tower of seafood including crab, giant scallops, mussels, clams, cuttlefish, octopus, vegetables and other delicacies cooked inward forepart of our eyes. Everything was in addition to hence fresh in addition to delicious. If yous see a beach town in addition to are a seafood lover, I highly recommend trying 1 of these dishes.
Our side past times side stop, afterwards our bellies were full, was Mud Fest! We all changed into our bathing suits in addition to headed for the beach. Directly across from our hotel was a plaza that housed vats filled alongside mud. Our grouping did non larn far earlier everyone began roofing 1 some other alongside mud. Paint brushes were within the vats in addition to hence friends could pigment 1 another.
After applying the traditional Mud Fest costume, nosotros continued downward the beach to the mud carnival. This is an surface area that houses a mud wrestling pit, mud prison, mud massage pool, mud blow upward slides in addition to a mud obstacles course. There is also an surface area devoted for children alongside mud games. Lines were long for the mud carnival, exactly I was able to effort a few rides. First I was thrown into the mud prison theater where spectators threw giant globs of mud onto me. There was no escaping as I covered my eyes in addition to allow the mud flow. Next I pigeon into the mud pit where I wrestled some other foreigner in addition to works life myself fifty-fifty to a greater extent than covered inward mud. Finally I climbed a ii flush blow upward slide in addition to slid my means towards the beach.
Several stages are laid at Mud Festival playing K-Pop, monastic country music, traditional music in addition to more. Near the shore a ii flush beach phase was laid up. The DJ performed on the transcend degree alongside girls dancing unopen to him belongings squirt guns to douse the crowd.
The next morn nosotros woke upward early on to attend 'Mud Boot Camp.' Mud Boot Camp takes house inward the mud flats that the mud is taken from for the festival. The ROK regular army trains inward these flats throughout the year.
When nosotros arrived at the flats, nosotros were given camouflage gear to alter into. We did warm upward exercises inward the mud that included frontward in addition to backwards mud crawls. After this nosotros broke into ii teams in addition to had mud challenges. The losing squad had to produce mud exercises afterwards every competition. Our terminal ii events were mud wrestling in addition to mud soccer. It was a lot of fun in addition to quite the workout!
Mud Fest 2013 was a nifty time! If yous lead maintain the chance to attend this weekend's festival or side past times side years event, I highly recommend taking the trip. It volition hold upward a in 1 trial inward a lifetime experience!
