Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival

The Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival alongside the riverside in Hwacheon-gun, Gangwon-do Province, takes place from Jan 14 to Feb 5. The Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival was selected through the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism as one in every of Korea’s most important ice festivals. As the Hwacheoncheon Stream in Hwacheon-gun, Gangwon-do freezes in winters, and it will become a great vicinity to experience iciness in Korea! Locals and travelers come to the circulate and experience ice fishing. They reduce a hollow withinside the ice and fish for sancheoneo (Masou salmon), a kind of trout simplest located in freshwaters of excessive quality.

Ice and snow sports are simply as much part of the Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival as ice fishing. While on the festival, you could strive for ice sledding and snow sleddingThere is even a place to strive for sleds from across the world. Visitors can experience huge wheel tricycles on the ice. Also, there is a zipline for human beings to zip over all of the human beings ice fishing.

Time: from Jan 14 to Feb 5

Location: Hwacheon-gun, Gangwon-do Province