This past Saturday The Lady and I met up with Jonathan and went to the Boryeong mud festival. The Boryeong mud festival has been going on for 14 years and started because the mud in Boryeong was used in cosmetic products and the sellers wanted to create some buzz so they started the festival. It's actually a pretty big event here in Korea but it is especially so for us foreigners and particularly the military. Since coming here to Korea I've been looking forward to going and was excited that TL was able to come with me.
After getting up early, we headed to the bus station got our tickets and got in line for the bus. Yup, there were some other foreigners already in-line and ready to go. We hop on the bus and get on the front seats because we wanted the leg room and also Jonathan and I knew that the bus was overbooked and people would have to sit in the aisle.
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| People were lined up almost to the front! |
Once we got there we immediately bought our return tickets for the last bus to Gwangju just in case we wanted to leave since they would refund our tickets if we didn't take the bus. I didn't get too many pictures because we were at a mud festival and I didn't want to ruin TL's camera so I've borrowed from some internet sites.
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| No shower no problem. |
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| The cleanest everyone was for the rest of the day. |
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| By 3pm that stage was surrounded by thousands of mud-caked people. |
Overall we had a great time, the ocean water was pretty warm but the atmosphere was succinctly summed up by TL when she said, "It's Panama City done Asheville style." It was a mixture of laid-back hipsters/hippies and army people. So we had a good time but we didn't want to stay through the night as we knew it was going to get rowdy and we didn't want to stay in a hotel.
For some great pictures of people in the mud festival check out these sites:
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