DPRK National Day Extended Tour

DPRK National Day Extended Tour 2012, 64th anniversary of the foundation of the DPRK. The application deadline for this tour is August 15 2012. If interested in extending your DPRK National Day tour please send us an e-mail stating how long you would like to extend for and if there are any specific places you would like to visit.

If not a US citizen, you can also join this tour by train. Please contact us if you are interested in this option.

Day 1 - September 6 (Thurs)

Depart from Beijing at 14.00 flight JS 252 Terminal 2, Beijing Capital Airport
Arrive in Pyongyang at 17.00 (Pyongyang time)

Fountain Park
Mansudae Grand Monument
Arch of Triumph
Hotel check in
Dinner at Yanggakdo Hotel

Overnight: Yanggakdo Hotel, Pyongyang

Day 2 - September 7 (Fri)

Breakfast: Yanggakdo Hotel
Depart to Kaesong (Panmunjomm, the DMZ)
38th Parallel (DMZ) - chance to enter the famous blue negotiation rooms where talks between North & South Korea have taken place

Lunch at Tongil Restaurant (Kaesong)
Koryo Museum (Kaesong)
Concrete Wall - built by the South and only visible from the North. See one of the world's most important nature reserves as hardly any humans have stepped on the land dividing the Korean peninsula since 1953.
Drive back to Pyongyang
Grand People's Study House
Dinner: Pyongyang City Restaurant

Day 3 - September 8 (Sat)

Breakfast (Yanggakdo Hotel)
Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum
USS Pueblo - US spy ship captured in 1968
Ride on Pyongyang Metro, the deepest in the world - chance to ride on the metro with local people

Lunch: City restaurant
Drive to the port city of Nampo
Chongsan Cooperative Farm - see how Koreans work and live in this model cooperative farm
Nampo Orphanage
West Sea Barrage
Drive back to Pyongyang
Dinner: Rungrado Restaurant

Overnight: Yanggakdo Hotel, Pyongyang

Day 4 - September 9 (Sun) - DPRK National Day

Breakfast: Yanggakdo Hotel
Kumsusan Memorial Palace (where the body of Kim Il Sung lies in state)
Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery

Picnic lunch
Moranbong Park (where locals picnic and gather on national holidays)
Mangyongdae - Kim Il Sung's Birthplace
Juche Tower - chance to go up the 150 metre tower (170 metres including the torch) that offers a panoramic view of Pyongyang.
Expected Mass dances where thousands of North Koreans celebrate National Day - chance to dance with locals
MASS GAMES
Farewell Dinner: Duck BBQ, Pyongyang

Overnight: Yanggakdo Hotel, Pyongyang

Day 5 - September 10 (Mon)

Breakfast: Yanggakdo Hotel
Coach to Mount Myohyang
International Friendship Exhibition - exposing thousands of presents given to Kim Il Sung his son Kim Jong Il and his wife Kim Jong Suk
Pohyon Bhuddist Temple

Lunch: Chongchon Hotel
Drive back to Pyongyang
Korean Film Studio - settings where DPRK movies are filmed
Korean Art Studio - where statues, paintings, carvings and many forms of DPRK propaganda are produced
Farewell Dinner: Yanggakdo Hotel

Overnight: Yanggakdo Hotel

Day 6 - September 11 (Tue)

Breakfast: Yanggakdo Hotel
9 am JS 151 Flight to Beijing
10 am arrival in Beijing

End of DPRK National Day Extended Tour

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