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)
PM
- 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
AM
- 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
PM
- 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)
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
PM
- 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)

AM
- 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
PM
- 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)
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| Children's rally in Hamhung |
AM
- 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
PM
- 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

Day 6 - July 31 (Tue)
AM
- Breakfast: Majon Cottage
- Bujon Revolutionary Sites
- Drive back to Wonsan
PM
- 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)
AM
- 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

PM
- 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)
AM
- Breakfast: Yanggakdo Hotel
- 10.10 am train to Beijing
PM
- Stopover at Sinuiju train station bordering China
Overnight: Train
Day 9 - August 3 (Fri)
End of tour
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