Mud Festival!!!

This last weekend I went to the much-anticipated Mud Festival in Boryeong, which is about 2.5 hours south of Seoul. Unfortunately, we couldn't get early train tickets, so we didn't get there until about 4pm. When we walked onto the beach, we saw a lot of mud-covered people, but to our surprise, THERE WAS NO MUD LEFT! Ok, not exactly NO mud, but pretty much- we were scraping it out of the bottom of buckets and off the street to put on ourselves. Despite that fact, we still had a pretty good time, although I didn't take many pictures because I had my camera stored in a safe, mud-free place most of the time. The two biggest redeeming factors were that it was a nice beach for swimming and that there was a bathhouse (i.e. jjimjilbang- motto: no clothes, just right) right there that only cost $3 to use- it included showers, baths, saunas, mud to cover yourself with (which was where I ended up finding the most mud to get on me), etc. So mud festival = definitely worth it, but get there early.