Boryeong Mud Festival

It was first performed in 1998. Boryeong Mud Festival is a relatively new festival held in the South Korean seaside town of Boryeong. It was originally intended to generate publicity for a line of cosmetics made with the area's nutrient-rich mud, but the event swiftly became Korea's most popular summer festival. Boryeong Mud Festival is now simply a terrific excuse to get down and dirty and have a good time.

Every year, festivalgoers go to Daecheon Beach for exciting live music, a dip in the nutrient-rich mud, and the opportunity to sample numerous mud-related health and beauty products and services. Immerse yourself in nutrient-rich mud in the mud pool, slide down the mud slide, or express yourself artistically by body painting with colorful mud, making your own mud soaps, and taking on the mud maze obstacle course.

Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Time: Begins on Friday and ends on Ash Wednesday