If you happen to find yourself in Korea in the middle of July, you MUST find a way to catch a bus to Boryeong with a huge group of foreigners. Amy and I have been waiting all year for their annual Mud Fest on Boryeong beach. This festival has its roots with cosmetic mud harvested somewhere near Boryeong. The locals wanted to hype their awesome mud, so they started an entire party dedicated to covering people with it. Our bus trip too about 5 hours to get there from Busan. Our good friend Dana somehow managed to organize two buses and an entire hostel of sleeping arrangements for 80 foreigners to travel to the fiesta....props girl.
The small city transforms into an entire maze of vendors, makeshift restaurants, and outdoor bars that encircle a giant Mudtopia. Mudville comes complete with mud-slip-n-slides, giant mud slides, mud-prison, multi-colored-mud, and a couple free-for-all-mud-wrestling pits.
It was heaven for my inner-9-year-old.
We spent most of that night on the beach/boardwalk shooting fireworks, dancing without music, watching other fireworks, and still managing to amp up the fun at the end of our year together here in Korea. Thanks Boryeong!
Thanks Boryeong!
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