It was actually pretty funny the way our entire group that we were traveling to the festival with, started the morning. When all of us woke up, (early because we had to catch the bus to Busan) everyone in our group had thought about flaking on the festival. We had been to the Maehwa Apricot Festival the weekend before, which was like 12 hours round trip on buses and we had all just been worn out. We all said that if just one person would have flaked, we all would have flaked on the festival. And looking back, we are so glad none of us did! It was once of the best days I have had in Korea!!!
What a "Holi Festival" is:
An Indian festival where you release colored powder into the air (on each other) to get rid of bad spirits. You wear light colored clothes and paint each other up and just have a fun time. That is it.
When we got to the festival (early because we had taken an early bus and had to catch and hour subway to the beach), it was cold and we weren't feeling the loud Indian music. As we were registering, the Indian man who was giving us our "beanies" made Scott take a big swig of soju and told us that beer and soju would be provided later, but getting a head start wasn't a bad idea! ... He wasn't kidding!
Start of the Festival.... Nice white shirts guys!
Soon the beach filled up with the most foreigners I have ever seen in one place! More people from the island came and then the festival began. They gave each of us ONE packet of colored powder.... When it began, it lasted MAYBE 4 minutes. People were all over the place painting each other, dusting people, drinking, dancing.
Our white shirts soon turned a tie-dyed mess of just random people throwing dust on us. The day turned out to be this perfect sunny day and, again, we were all so glad that we didn't flake on this festival. We spent 4 hours of just drinking - painting -pyramid making - messy couple of hours but such a great time was had. I think it was the first time that ALL of the different groups in Geoje, our little island, just came out and had a great time and just didn't give two shits of anything but having a good time.
Jen and me in the mosh pit of colored dust.
Doesn't it look like a fabulous way to spend Easter!?
Moral of this Holi Festival blog post.... GO! Don't flake out!
Love always,
-C
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