Road Trip: Beroun, Planá, Mariánské Lázně

Prague full of ghosts

This event take a place around the second week of January. First competition was made in 1983. by tourists groups from Prague, but it was without participation of scouts (they were prohibited).
Since 2005. it start and finish in the Tyrš House near Kampa. It is open for scouts and for civil people as well. In scouts part it has tree categories: cubs and brownies, scouts and rovers. They have to solve many types of codes. For the older competitors are prepared more difficult codes. When they solve them, they will find names of streets where they can find ghosts. They have time limit to solve codes, and find as many ghosts as possible. The other part is for the civil people and for adults, and they don´t have a time limit. Civil part is open for all people and especially for families with children. Their codes are not so difficult as scouts ones.
Ghosts are from old Prague legends, there is a lot of them, and every year we have different ghosts.
After the race there is program for children and competition Miss Huhula (miss bogy-man), when competitors can vote the best ghost.
I was with cub scouts (66. Cub Unit), and it was very nice experience to run through the streets of Prague trying to find all the ghosts. But we have been so successful, we found all ghosts, we finished race on time, and we had fun. :)

Holiday mood... :)