A mud-wrestling promotion is held in a scenic area of Wulingyuan in Zhangjiajie city, in Central China's Hunan province on Wednesday. The contestant with the least mud after the mud fight is the winner. Thirty bikini-clad women and more than 100 villagers joined the event.
A participant in the mud and is "attacked" by other participants. The Wulingyuan travel bureau has many unusual events planned to promote the scenic area.
Bikini-wearing women wrestle in the mud as part of travel promotion. Wulingyuan is a famous for site-seeing and was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1992
An elderly villager poses with participants in Wulingyuan.
Women wearing bikinis throw mud on each other in a bid to promote travel to scenic Wulingyuan.