Sancheoneo Ice Festival - http://www.narafestival.com/07_global/?lang=eng
The Ice Festival is a yearly event. This year the event start from Jan 6- 24.
There is a special transport by tourism for tourist who want to travel to Sancheoneo from Seoul. The pick up in Seoul is outside Dongwha Duty Free Shop in Jongno-gu, Seoul , depart 8am and must depart from Sancheoneo at 5pm. fees:10,000, from Seoul straight reach Sancheoneo but you need to make reservation - call 1577-5944 and make reservation via http://www.narafestival.com.
The Ice Festival offers a lots of winter activities. We love the ice fishing and catch the fish with your bare hand in a pool activities!
For the ice fishing activities, you just need to put the string in the fishing place to catch the fish! And you can pay like 5000won for 3 fish to be cooked for you to consume near the fishing place!
According to http://www.narafestival.com/07_global/?f_code=02_02&lang=eng website:
"Sancheoneo is hard to catch as it is rare but everyone can catch one or two Sancheoneo at Hwacheon with somewhat good luck and knack since 32 or 3 tons of fresh Sancheoneo are being put just under the fishing place every day for visitors for Sancheoneo festival. It is just the reason why a child or young girl without fishing experience is indulged in Sancheoneo ice fishing.
Hwacheoncheon (stream), with eleven thousand ice holes for ice fishing on perfectly frozen ice, is clean water in depth of 2 meter or about, so you can find Sancheoneo that are swimming beneath the ice. Hearing shouts of joy saying, “I caught it!” here and there, many people put their heads near to the ice and shake hands up and down eagerly. Reserved fishing place is better than the spot fishing place if you want to catch more Sancheoneo. One of the knacks is not be stuck on one fishing spot, as swimming pattern of grouped Sancheoneo may be changed in accordance with time due to Sancheoneo property."
There are a lots of other fun activities for the kids, families and adults such as ice sledding, ice soccer, elgomi bike and etc.. refer to http://www.narafestival.com/07_global/?f_code=02_02&lang=eng.
Then we walk out from the festival to the main road of the town to the Ice Lantern Plaza to enjoy the ice sculpture made by carvers invited from Harbin.
At 4pm, we went back to the Sancheoneo festival bus station area to wait for our bus to go back to Seoul.
