Love Travel : Another Way to Get Dirty

Exhausted Flour War, Bathing together at the Sea

 Love Traveling during Clean Monday Flour War, Greece

Not to be outdone, Greece also have a festival that could make the participants have fun while dirty-dirt. This festival uses flour as the main ingredient.

In Greece, flour not only the ingredients to make the cake. Flour is also a "weapon" in the Clean festival Monday at City Galaxidi Flour War.

City Galaxidi is a port city located 200 kilometers from Athens, the capital of Greece. To commemorate the end of the carnival season and the start of fasting, the city held a massive flour war.

Flour used not only white, sometimes mixed with the dye powder. When starting the festival, the city population smearing his face with charcoal. In order not to contaminate the building, before the war started all the historical places are covered with plastic.

The war started when the bell rang, then the entire population will fight each other by throwing flour. Flour after the war was over, they trooped to the sea to bathe. Even this flour war closed with a meal together in the center of town.

Experience Mud Festival

Love Travel to Festival Boryeong City, South Korea  

Boryeong City Festival is an annual event showcase mud wrestling, mud slides, etc., all done with the dirty mud media. This festival was first performed in 1998, and in 2007 successfully attracted 2.2 million visitors to Boryeong.

Mud used is derived from the mudflats Boryeong, a town located 200 kilometers from Seoul, South Korea's capital city. This mud tipped mineral rich and good for the skin.

However, despite these attractions indeed become a favorite among foreign tourists, sanitation is not guaranteed. Last year, 200 of the 1,500 participants in the festival suffered skin disease.