DPRK Travel - Anniversary of the Foundation of the Workers' Party of Korea tour

Monument to the Party's Foundation in North Korea

DPRK Travel - Foundation of Workers' Party Tour

DPRK Travel - Anniversary of the Foundation of the Workers' Party of Korea. The application deadline for this tour is September 12 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.

Day 1 - October 6 (Sat)

Depart from Beijing at 13.00 flight JS 152 Terminal 2, Beijing Capital Airport
Arrive in Pyongyang at 16.00 (Pyongyang time)

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

Overnight: Yanggakdo Hotel, Pyongyang

Day 2 - October 7 (Sun)

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

Lunch: City restaurant, Pyongyang
Mangyongdae - Kim Il Sung's Birthplace
Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum - Korean War Museum
Drive to Mt. Myohyang
Check in Chongchon Hotel
Dinner: Chongchon Hotel

Overnight: Chongchon Hotel, Mt. Myohyang

Day 3 - October 8 (Mon)

Women in Mt. Myohyang AM

Breakfast: Chongchon Hotel
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
Light walk in the beautiful Manpok Valley
Drive back to Pyongyang
Juche Tower - chance to go up 150 meters and have a panoramic view of Pyongyang
Ride on Pyongyang Metro (the deepest in the world) with locals
Dinner: Rungrado Restaurant

Overnight: Yanggakdo Hotel, Pyongyang

Day 4 - October 9 (Tue)

Breakfast: Yanggakdo Hotel
Depart to Kaesong (Panmunjomm, the DMZ)
38th Parallel - 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
Tomb of King Wanggong
Dinner: Minsok Hotel (Korean Folk Hotel)

Overnight: Minsok Folk Hotel, Kaesong

Day 5 - October 10 (Weds) - National Holiday: Anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea

Monk in Chongbangsan, North Korea AM

Breakfast: Minsok Hotel
Drive through beautiful scenery to Sariwon City
Songbul Temple on Chongbang Mountain

Juche Tower PM

Lunch: Sariwon Hotel
Sariwon Folk Village (you can see the territorial map of Korea's cultural ruins, historical relics, the Provincial History Museum, various pavilions and houses in the time of the Ancient and Middle era of the country)
Walk around Sariwon, chance to taste local street food and enjoy a drink of Korean Macoli with locals
Drive back to Pyongyang
Moranbong Park - where locals gather on National Holidays
Monuments to the Workers' Party Foundation - celebration of the anniversary of the Party's Foundation
Expected Mass Dances - join thousands of Koreans dancing to celebrate the National Holiday
MASS GAMES
Farewell Dinner: Pyongyang Duck BBQ Restaurant

Overnight: Yanggakdo Hotel

Day 6 - October 11 (Thurs)

Breakfast
Train to Beijing

Stopover at Sinuiju train station bordering China

Overnight: train

Day 7 - October 12 (Fri)

Arrive in Beijing at 08:31 am

End of tour

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