Just returned from spending my days off at the Boryeong Mud Festival...and yes, it was muddy. We took the train from Seoul to Boryeong on Sunday night and got in about 11pm. We stayed in a hotel by the beach..basically a big room with a small kitchen and bath and nothing else...so 15+ people spread blankets and pillows around on the floor and headed out to get drunk enough not to worry about the lack of mattress..or anything.
Monday was our first real day at Mud Fest. On the walk there we were stopped by a Korean tv producer and asked if we wanted to be extras in a korean tv drama..instant fame..sign me up! We each got painted with mud( which is dug up in the area and used to make cosmetics and such because of it's nutrients) by these crazy old women who were working on the set and then we were told to get in the blow up mud wrestling ring...and go for it. That we did. After shooting for about half an hour we headed down to Daecheon beach to rinse off.
The rest of the day was...muddy. There was a mud "swimming" pool..2 giant mud slides..a mud jail...a mud wrestling ring..and tons of crazy mud covered people. The festival is geared towards tourists so there were even "Restaurants for Foriegners" ..called exactly that...that served hamburgers and hotdogs. The craziest part was the paparazzi. These korean photographers would follow us around taking pictures of basically everything we did. One woman stayed with us for half an hour trying to make us "jump..jump" so she could take pictures of westerners getting wild. At night there were bands...a dance troupe..and a great interpretive dance show on the beach..which I missed completely as I was doing an interpretive dance of my own.
I am now covered in mosquito bites..and really really ready for a shower...but all in all it was a great trip.
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