DPRK Tours - North Korea Victory Day

DPRK Tours - Victory Day & Mass Games Premiere Tour

DPRK Tours - Victory Day Mass Games Premiere Tour. The application deadline for this tour is June 28 2012. If interested in extending your 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 - July 26 (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 - July 27 (Fri) - Victory Day - Anniversary of the Korean War Armistice

Breakfast: Yanggakdo Hotel
Coach to Kaesong (Panmunjom, 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
Victory Day Celebrations in Pyongyang
Local funfair
Dinner: Rungrado Restaurant

Overnight: Yanggakdo Hotel, Pyongyang

Day 3 - July 28 (Saturday)

Ride in the Pyongyang metro with locals AM

Drive to Mount Myohyang - "fragrance mountain" is located in a beautiful quiet area of Korea. Chance to see a variety of landscapes when driving there
International Friendship Exhibition Centre - see where thousands of gifts have been presented to Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Suk (wife and mother of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il respectively)
Pohyon Temple

Lunch: Chongchon Hotel
Drive back to Pyongyang
Ride on Pyongyang Metro with locals
Party Foundation Monuments
Dinner: Yanggakdo Hotel

Overnight: Yanggakdo Hotel, Pyongyang

Day 4 - July 29 (Sunday)

Koreans at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace

Breakfast: Yanggakdo Hotel
Kumsusan Memorial Palace - (where the body of the oficial President of the country, Kim Il Sung, lies in state), one of the most sacred places in the DPRK
Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery

Lunch: Mangyongdae Restaurant, Pyongyang
Drive to the coastal city of Wonsan (East Coast)
Walk around Wonsan City (Central Square and along the pier)
Jandok Ilet
Check-in Songdowon Hotel
Dinner: Songdowon Hotel

Overnight: Songdowon Hotel, Wonsan

Day 5 - July 30 (Mon)

Children's rally in Hamhung

Breakfast: Songdowon Hotel
Drive to Hamhung City - discover the second largest city in the DPRK. This industrial city was only open to tourism in 2010
Mt. Donghung - with an impressive view of Hamhung City, this place is a popular place for newly-weds

Lunch: City Restaurant
Hamhung Palace - enormous theatre located in the city centre right across from the main square. Please bear in mind that in spite of being the second biggest city in North Korea, Hamhung has only been opened up to tourism very recently and the site of foreigners here is extremely rare for locals (as is the case all throughout the DPRK)
Hungnam Fertilizer Factory - unique chance to visit one of the country's biggest factories
Dongbong Cooperative Farm - chance to see how farmers and their families live here
Check-in Majon Cottage (at the beach)
Dinner: Majon Cottage, clam BBQ

Overnight: Majon Cottage

North Korean propaganda in a cooperative farm

Day 6 - July 31 (Tue)

Breakfast: Majon Cottage
Bujon Revolutionary Sites
Drive back to Wonsan

Lunch: City Restaurant in Wonsan
Wonsan Agricultural University
Walk around Oriental Park
Drive back to Pyongyang
Dinner: Chongryu Restaurant, Pyongyang

Overnight: Yanggakdo Hotel, Pyongyang

Day 7 - August 1 (Weds)

Breakfast: Yanggadko Hotel
Mangyongdae Native House - Kim Il Sung's birthplace
Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum
USS Pueblo - US spy ship, the only US vessel in possession of a foreign country
Juche Tower - chance to go up 170 meters and have a panoramic view of Pyongyang

Lunch: Pyongyang City Restaurant
Grand People's Study House - huge study centre/library with excellent views of Kim Il Sung Square
Korean Film Studio - see where movies are filmed in the DPRK
Mansudae Art Studio - chance to meet artists where DPRK propaganda in the forms of paitings and statues are produced
MASS GAMES - first Mass Games Performance of 2012!
Farewell Dinner: Pyongyang Duck BBQ Restaurant

Overnight: Yanggakdo Hotel

Day 8 - August 2 (Thurs)

Breakfast: Yanggakdo Hotel
10.10 am train to Beijing

Stopover at Sinuiju train station bordering China

Overnight: Train

Day 9 - August 3 (Fri)

Arrive in Beijing at 08:31 am

End of tour

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