Boryeong Mud Festival
To see in Boryeong, around the mud festival: three real and verified places, from the beach to the hills.
The mud is busy — but Boryeong, on the west coast of South Korea, has much more to offer. Here are three real and verified places, from the beachfront to the hills, to be combined with the festival.
Daecheon beach
It's the scene of the festival — and the rest of the year, the big beach of Boryeong: a long strip of fine sand facing the Yellow Sea, lined with pines, seafood restaurants and the Mud Expo Plaza promenade. We bathe in the summer, watch the sun set on the islands, and in winter, the beach welcomes lovers of grilled oysters, the specialty of the corner. During the festival, arrive early: the experience area opens from 10 am on weekends.
Boryeong Mud Museum and Mud Theme Park
The museum of the mud of Boryeong, facing Daecheon beach, tells the other life of the festival: exhibitions about mineral mud and its benefits, experiences — shower and mud massage — and the full range of cosmetics that brought the festival to life in 1998. The nearby theme park extends the visit in all seasons: the ideal address to understand, clean hands, why a whole country celebrates its mud. The foundation of the festival itself returns from its official portal.
Gaehwa Art Park
In Seongju-myeon, in the hills east of the city, this large art park spreads its sculptures among gardens, greenhouses and aromatic herbs: Herbland, music room, poetry park and Mosan art museum compose a quiet and flowery parenthesis, with coffee-terrace to blow. After whole days covered with mud, it is the "clean" preferred detour of Boryeong visitors — take about twenty minutes by car from the beach.
Good to know
At low tide, the nearby beach of Muchangpo, south of Daecheon, offers its "Miracle of Moses": a seaway is clear to Seokdaedo Island, a few days a month. Check the tide schedule before you go there, and only enter the way when the sea has withdrawn.