North Korea National Day Tour III

North Korea National Day Tour III 2012, the 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 - 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 locals

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

North Koreans in the Moran Park

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
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, Pyongyang

Day 6 - September 11 (Tue)

Breakfast: Yanggakdo Hotel
Drive through beautiful scenery to Sariwon City
Songbul Temple on Chongbang Mountain - quite area visited by painters and students because of its landscape

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
Children's Palace - see a truly impressive mixture of singing, instrument playing and dancing
Farewell Dinner: City restaurant, Pyongyang

Overnight: Yanggakdo Hotel, Pyongyang

Day 7 - September 12 (Weds)

Breakfast: Yanggakdo Hotel
Train to Beijing

Stopover at Sinuiju train station bordering China

Overnight: train

Day 8 - September 13 (Thurs)

Arrive in Beijing at 08:31 am

End of our North Korea National Day Tour III

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