Mask Festivals

I got up at 7:20 a.m. The weather was cloudy and cold. I enjoyed walking for 5 mins and then arrived at Bus Terminal. We got on the limousine for 28 people. haha. That bus was so comfortable and we could feel relax. During bus ride, Viki and I chatted a lot from work to private. Sometimes we enjoyed the scenery through the bus window and sometimes just focused on talking.

After an hour and twenty mins, we arrived at Andong. There were several big ad-balloons in the sky and ultralight airplanes flew here and there. And also there were lots of temporary traditional restaurants and stores from food to clothes. I saw turkish ice cream, various tent food, mushrooms, Russian and other countries accessaries and surprising MASKS.

They were amazing. We went to Mask musium in the stadium and looked around Indonesia, African, China, Japan, Austrailia, Oceania and Korea booths. At first, Indonesia masks looked like a person with sharp jaw and sloe-eyed. Most of the masks were painted with gold fur and black paint.

The most weird and exciting masks were from Africa. Their masks were too long or too thin to wear or cover. The longest mask was eating a lizard. I've never seen like that kind of mask before. All masks from Africa weren't colorful but simple and had unique patterns.

Japanese masks were less than Africa. So I was surprised. I thought that Japan is neighbor country and it's easy to dispaly than Africa. These masks was covered with white paint, especially women masks like we could see on Play. Chinese masks were too colorful and they looked like devils. I didn't like them at all.

Oceania, especially Papua New Guinea, was almost as same as Africa. They didn't use color much and the masks were too wide and big, or too small and narrow. Viki and I took pictures next to big mask and read the information.

Oh my favorties. We finally came to Korea booth. There were lots of traditional masks including the masks we saw last year at HaHoe Village. My country's masks were simple and less colorful then China and Japan, but they were more realistic and looked like people. America masks looked scared and I'm pretty sure they would have made because of protecting bad things in the past.

Although we had to pay admission fee, I thought it was worth looking around it. After looking at the museum, we went to eat lunch. There were lots of restaurants, but we couldn't find good one. We ate steamed spicy chicken and it was so so. That's all. We also saw the Mask perfomance. It was so so, too. If I have chance to see this, I won't see it. I'm sure.

We had to walk for a long time, and the lunch wasn't good, We saw lots of interesting things and took lots of pictures. I will go to photo shop soon. If you look at these pictures, you would like them a lot. Next time, Let's go there together. ok? Promise me.