Comments on: North Korea – Day Four

By: happysabrina

happysabrina — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:03:31 +0000

How travel to North Korea

1 how to go to North Korea (Beijing –Dandong-North korea )

3 how to apply the visa (send me your passport and 2 inch colour photos?2? before 7 days)
4 how to find hotel in Dandong (we will manage that for you)
5 how much is the fee to go to North Korea (3 nights 4 days travelling around 5240 BMB)

1: 5000 RMB: (3 nights 4 days accomadation + meals +tickets + transportation in Pyongyang)

2: 240RMB: visa

3: 40 rmb: tip

Total: 5280 RMB (from Beijing – pyongyang- Beijing)

4: 263RMB: ( train ticket from Beijing – Dandong )(hard bed)
(we would like to book the ticket for you )

After October there is no Mass Games involves over 100,000 performers and takes place in the May Day Stadium)
So don’t need to pay 400rmb ticket for it

6 : The schedule in North Korea for 4 days
Day 1 dandong- pyongyang
Place to visit (wan shou tai monument ,datong river) live in Yanggakdo hotel( nice hotel)
Day 2 Pyongyang – kai city- Panmunjom (borden line between south korea and north korea)
The meeting room in Panmunjom (the place to sign and separate one country to become two parts) wanjingtai (Kim Il Sung birthplace), kai city museum, and legendary Chollima horse…
Day 3 Pyongyang – Miaoxiang Mountain
Place to visit: miaoxiang museum ( the gift from all over the world), puxian temple…..
Day 4 Pyongyang – Dandong
Place to visit: Arch of Triumph, (higher than the one in Paris), subway in Pyongyang, (very long wondering why) shopping …

Contact me
Email: travelnorthkorea@yahoo.cn Telephone: 15941545676

By: TACOFM

TACOFM — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 01:16:25 +0000

I think I’ve worked out the “what’s wrong with this picture” mystery…. no I’m not insulting the photos- but something’s been bugging me as I looked through them… it’s like walking into a room and something just nags at you… why is everything so “neat”? The public squares, the streets, the waterside footpath in the photo of the USS Pueblo- there’s no signs of human inhabitation!

It’s the lack of human clutter that made the whole scene so contrived and surreal. The visitors are obviously choreographed and arranged into militaristic groups, but where are all the highly-proclaimed workers, toiling away? It’s as if the whole city had been sealed off for your visit…

By: Carrache

Carrache — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 20:37:27 +0000

Errr…did someone say brothel? In the name of scholarly research, sir, I demand further investigation!

Excellent reading. Conscise, fun and better than finding antique gynecological tools in your granddad’s attic.

By: nikolas

nikolas — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:13:38 +0000

Hi am nikolas i live in china, i would like to meet north korean people. i’ve been many times in south korea, and i thnik they are nice, but i would like to meet north korean people. Am 28 years old, latin guy.

By: Stephan

Stephan — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 01:07:23 +0000

A wonderful and very interesting read, Thanks!
Cheers,
Stephan

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:31:17 +0000

Is the rude statue picture Kim Il Sung also? The traffic ladies may know!

By: fraser

fraser — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:47:39 +0000

Cheers Robtoo. I’ve still got half a day to write up.

By: robtoo

robtoo — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:14:33 +0000

This series has been a fantastic read. Thank you, Fraser.

By: Sharyn

Sharyn — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:24:38 +0000

“Pass the Juche on the left hand side! Haa haaa.

What food are you looking forward to, Fras?

By: AIA (American Imperialist Aggressor)

AIA (American Imperialist Aggressor) — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 21:01:03 +0000

Hi Fraser.
Just finished a two-year “tour” as an English teacher in South Korea and I was always fascinated by what was going on “up there”… cool to see the DMZ from the other side of the line. Thanks for sharing.

For anybody who’s interested in some good Korea-related reading which has not necessarily passed through Kim’s Ministry of Truth…

Still Life with Rice by Heilie Lee
is a somewhat fictionalised biography of the author’s grandmother – who seemed to have personally experienced every major event in the history of the penninsula during the 20th Century. It helped me understand “what happened there” through a narrative context…

Aquariums of Pyongyang (don’t have it in front of me, can’t remember author)
is an arresting memoir by a survivor of one of the North’s work camps (that aren’t supposed to exist.) I had to check myself on occasion to remember that this story takes place in the early EIGHTIES, not sixty or seventy years ago.

Sorry if suggesting this literature is obvious… you may have already read it all… likely your Amazon.com account will creepily already know you want to read it one way or the other…
cheers.