Fire festival, originally uploaded by Sporking Roark.

Location: Mootae, Bukgu, Daegu, Korea

The full moon fire festival is held every year on the first full moon of spring. In Mootae it is held in a big aqueduct, which dries up over winter but flows again with the arrival of spring's rain. Why is this significant? Well, as you can see from the photo it is raining and several hundred people are standing in what is a glorified storm water drain. Somehow we didn't get our feet wet, yet sure enough a torrent of water was flowing through here so sooner than the last firework had gone 'pop'.

Roark.