Kim Jong Il Birthday Tour 2012
Kim Jong Il Birthday Tour 2012. The application deadline for this tour is January 24 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 - February 14 (Tues)
- Depart from Beijing at 13.00 flight JS 152 Terminal 2, Beijing Capital Airport
- Arrive in Pyongyang at 16.00 (Pyongyang time)
PM
- Fountain Park
- Mansudae Grand Monument
- Arch of Triumph
- Hotel check-in
- Welcome Dinner: Yanggakdo Hotel
Overnight: Yanggakdo Hotel, Pyongyang
Day 2 - February 15 (Weds)
AM
- Breakfast: Yanggakdo Hotel
- Victorious Fatherland Liberation Museum
- Ride on Pyongyang Metro with locals
- Mangyongdae Native House (Kim Il Sung's Birthplace)
PM
- Lunch: Pyongyang City Restaurant
- Drive to port city of Nampo
- Chongsan Cooperative Farm - see how Koreans work and live in this model cooperative farm
- Nampo Orphanage
- West Sea Barrage - ride along the 8 km long barrage to the hill top with a great view of the project
- Drive back to Pyongyang
- Dinner: Chongryu Restaurant, Pyongyang
Overnight: Yanggakdo Hotel, Pyongyang
Day 3 - February 16 (Thurs)
National Holiday - Kim Jong Il's Birthday 70th Birthday
AM
- Breakfast: Yanggakdo Hotel
- Kumsusan Memorial Palace - (where the body of Kim Il Sung lies in state), one of the most sacred places in the DPRK
- Juche Tower - chance to go up the 150 metre tower (170 metres including the torch) that offers a panoramic view of Pyongyang
PM
- Lunch: Pyongyang City Restaurant
- Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery
- Kimjongilia Flower Exhibition - thousands of locals go to see flowers given to Kim Jong Il on occasion of his birthday
- Optional: Syncronised swimming performance (€20)
- Walk arond Moranbong Park where locals gather on National Holidays
- Kim Il Sung Square - expected Mass Dances
- Dinner: Rungrado Restaurant, Pyongyang
Overnight: Yanggakdo Hotel, Pyongyang
Day 4 - February 17 (Fri)
AM
- Breakfast: Yanggakdo Hotel
- Depart 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
- Tomb of King Wanggong
- Drive back to Pyongyang
- Farewell Dinner: Pyongyang Duck BBQ
Overnight: Yanggakdo Hotel, Pyongyang
Day 5 - February 18 (Sat)
AM
- Breakfast: Yanggakdo Hotel
- 10.10 Train to Beijing
- JS 151 9 am flight for those returning to Beijing by plane arriving in Beijing at 10 am / End of tour
PM
- Stopover at Sinuiju train station bordering China
Overnight: train
Day 6 - February 19 (Sun)
Arrive in Beijing at 08:31 am
End of tour
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