Every year, a lucky 175,000 people spend several hundred pounds going to The Greatest Festival in the World, while millions enviously tune in to watch the BBC coverage from the comfort of their warm, dry sofas.

A horse got stuck in a two-meter-deep drain filled with thick mud near Wellington, New-Zealand on Tuesday. The poor animal could hardly keep his head above the mud and was unable to move when a rescue team arrived. It took the rescuers from Massey University VERT four hours to pull the distressed horse from the drain. The rescuers put a board under the horse’s head to keep it elevated and out of the mud. A 12-tonne digger removed the piles of dirt surrounding his chest and back to help him breathe better and a vet got down to anesthetize him. After that the horse could be lifted out vertically of the ditch by the digger.After some time the horse was already standing much to the delight of his owners and everyone who helped rescue him.

These amazing pictures were taken by Abel Coelho on a safari holiday and show a leopard catching its dinner in a mud pool.

These pictures from 1912 are taken from a Paris contest where people participated to see who had the best mud flaps. They have definitely changed a lot over the years.

This zebra foal was stuck in the mud until a kind Rhino came to its rescue.

Bloco da Lama is a celebration in Brazil that includes a lot of alcohol and a lot of mud. It’s definitely not for the clean freaks of the world.

Held in the South Korean town of Boryeong, the Mud Festival is a tradition that includes activities such as mud racing, mud fights and more. The Boryeong Mud Festival was conceived in order to promote cosmetics produced using mud.

A popular tourist attraction in Indonesia, this muddy pond erupts with an explosion of mud and a plume of white steam every two minutes and these eruptions also shift positions from time to time. Bledug Kuwu, is the local name for something that burst in a pool and visitors can watch the geyser from a distance of 10-20 meters away.

This little fluff ball didn’t look like this at all before he was rescued.

Amusing pictures of competing teams getting into mud pits at the funny obstacle course that took place in the end of March at Irvin Lake, California.

The largest mud building in the world is the great mosque in Djenne. It is made from animal dung and mud. The mud bricks form the organic shapes. Frequently, there will be pottery, calabash, or ostrich eggs on top of it to prevent its destruction from the rain. The timbers that protrude from the mosque provide the scaffolding that is permanent.

Apparently, the owner of this Bentley was somewhat inebriated when he drove his Bentley into the mud and then decided to take a bath in the mud. It seems that he nor the Bentley were any worse for wear however.