The Boryeong Mud Festival is held every year on Daecheon beach in South Korea. Thousands of gallons of mud are taken from the Boryeong mud flats to create attractions such as a huge mud pool with mud slides.
The festival runs for two weeks and attracts enormous crowds; organisers claim more than two million people attended the 2007 festival.
The mud is rich in minerals and is used in cosmetic products; indeed the festival was originally started as a marketing vehicle for Boryeong mud cosmetics.
Tourists play in the mud during the Boryeong Mud Festival at Daecheon beach in South KoreaReutersAll the mud you can get: Glastonbury eat your heart out GettyA tourist plays in the mud during the Boryeong Mud Festival at Daecheon beach, South KoreaReutersA reveller flashes a smile amidst all the mud ReutersOne day muddy tattoos might even catch on ReutersSome couldn't wait to immerse themselves in the mud GettyMud lovers frolic in the dirty stuff GettySome mud worshippers just can't get enough of the stuff ReutersA mud reveller grins and bears it ReutersTime to clean up our act: Boryeong festival-goers scrub off the mud ReutersMud everywhere AFPMud, oh glorious mud ReutersSome muddy wrestling ReutersBoryeong crowd sprayed with water to get the mud off Reuters
