Seoul Searching: A little bit of mud never hurt anybody

The weekend after the teachers' retreat saw my return back to Daechon Beach but this time for a very different reason. Mud. Yes, that's right, mud. Mud glorious mud! It was Boryeong's 13th anuual mud Festival and Melisa, Katie and I decided to go along and check it out with almost every other foreigner in Korea. The mud is taken from Boryeong mud flats and is taken by truck to the beach area. The mud is considered rich in minerals and used to manufacture cosmetics.

We eventually arrived at the beach after a stressful start (we missed our train and had to wait a while for the next one) and made our way to 'Mud Experience Land' which was nothing quite like anything I have ever seen before. Think a cross between a park/ playground/ theme-park full of inflatables and fun looking things but everything and everyone covered in mud and that's exactly what it was like. Within second of arriving at the hub we were covered head to toe within minutes. Our plan of 'not getting our hair muddy' (because we were travelling back to Seoul later that night) went to pot within seconds of entering the 'Mud Prison.' But we didn't care. It was just so much fun!

After playing in the mud we cleaned off in the sea and relaxed for a bit on the beach and made the most of the beautiful weather.

After that our luck was in because we got a free dinner thanks to the overnight trip our friends had booked.

Later we walked along the beach to collect our things and headed to the 'shower block' which looked more like a 'torture chamber before making our way back to Seoul.