Ice Fishing Festival!

Last weekend, Nicole, Carmela and I went on the Adventure Korea Ice Fishing Festival trip in Hwacheon, Gangwon-do. It was about a 2.5 hour bus ride from Seoul. When we arrived at the festival we went straight to the ice fishing.

Carmela and Nicole are admiring their ice fishing hole hoping to catch some of the fish.

I was cold and no fish were biting. Everyone around us was catching the fish, just not us :(

We ice fished for a good while before we decided that we were hungry for lunch, too cold to continue and sad that we didn't catch any fish. We enjoyed our lunch and keeping warm before we headed back out into the cold to look around the rest of the festival.

There were amazing snow sculptures at the festival. This was one of the best.

This is a picture of all the people that were ice fishing. There were thousands of people at the festival and this isn't even half.

This is a view of the snowsledding area at the festival.

There was even a soju dance party for all to enjoy!

This was my favourite snow sculpture. It was so detailed and it looks absolutely AMAZING!!

Nicole wanted to try the ice soccer, so we met up with some of the people from the trip, including the tour guides and checked it out. Nicole fell a few times and ended up bruising her knee. Carmela and I opted for the sidelines and just enjoyed watching everyone else play, laugh and fall.

Nicole playing ice soccer. I think the helmet suits her...hahaha!

Carmela and I enjoyed our spots off the ice.

Our friends and Adventure Korea tour guides, kyungsu and byeongwoo.

We had the option of doing bare handed fishing. Basically, there is a pool full of freezing cold water that you jump into, in front of people, and try and catch fish. Carmela, Nicole and I were too cold from being outside all day and just didn't feel like doing it. Instead we stood on the sidelines with other spectators and cheered out Adventure Korea crew on...the brave ones.

Here are the brave ones from the tour jumping into the pool.

Here is the Adventure Korea crew looking for the fish. Some were lucky and caught fish, others weren't so lucky.

When the bare handed fishing ended we waited for the one's who participated to dry off, change and warm-up before heading back to the buses to head to our pension. We were glad to get on the bus after the freezing cold day we had. The heat was much needed.