North Korea National Day Tour III

North Korea National Day Tour 2013, 65th anniversary of the foundation of the DPRK. The application deadline for this tour is August 12 2013. 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 7 (Saturday)

• Depart from Beijing at 12.00 flight JS 152 Terminal 2, Beijing Capital Airport
• Arrive in Pyongyang at 15.00 (Pyongyang time)

PM

• Fountain Park
• Arch of Triumph
• Brief walk around the area, see the enormous pictures of the Leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il
• Chollima Statue
• Hotel check-in
• Welcome Dinner: KITC Restaurant, Pyongyang

Overnight: Yanggakdo Hotel, Pyongyang

Day 2 - September 8 (Sunday)

AM

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

PM

• Lunch: City restaurant
• Drive to the port city of Nampo
• Chongsan Cooperative Farm - see how Koreans work and live in this model cooperative farm (where farmers work and live) which was very common in communist countries. You will be able to see a farmer's home and to go to the kindergarten where the farmers' children go. This is located within the premises of the cooperative farm.
• Nampo Orphanage (if open, if not a visit to a factory will be arranged)
• West Sea Barrage - 8km long barrage that splits the Sea of Korea and the Taedong River which reduces the risk of floods in North Korea
• Drive through the city centre and back to Pyongyang
• Dinner: Rungrado Restaurant, Pyongyang

Overnight: Yanggakdo Hotel, Pyongyang

Day 3 - September 9 (Monday) - DPRK National Day

AM

• Breakfast: Yanggakdo Hotel
• Grand People's Study House
• Ride on Pyongyang Metro (extended ride) - the deepest in the world - chance to ride on the metro with local people
• Mansudae Grand Monuments - giant bronze statues of the Leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il

PM

• Picnic lunch - enjoy an open air lunch on what is one of the most important days in the DPRK
• Moranbong Park (where locals picnic and gather on national holidays) - do expect to be asked to join in the fun & games with locals!
• 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.
• Workers' Party Foundation Monuments
• Expected Mass dances where thousands of North Koreans celebrate National Day - chance to dance with North Koreans. Hundreds of people; women dress in traditional Korean clothing and men in suits as they dance in a synchronised way
• Local funfair
• Dinner: City restaurant, Pyongayng

Overnight: Yanggakdo Hotel, Pyongyang

Day 4 - September 10 (Tuesday)

AM

• Breakfast: Yanggakdo Hotel
• Depart to Kaesong (Panmunjomm, the DMZ)
• 38th Parallel (DMZ) - chance to enter the famous blue negotiation rooms where talks between North & South Korea have taken place
• Koryo Museum (originally a university in the Koryo dynasty period). There is also a stamp shop outside the museum with a great selection of DPRK stamps and souvenirs

PM

• Lunch: Tongil Restaurant (Kaesong)
• Drive back to Pyongyang
• Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum
• USS Pueblo - only US spyship captured in 1968
• Children's Palace - see the children's lessons and then a performance
• MASS GAMES - fabulous way to end your trip! See this unique show in the largest stadium in the world.
• Dinner: Pyongyang City Restaurant
• Dinner: Pyongyang Duck BBQ Restaurant, Pyongyang

Day 5 - September 11 (Wednesday)

AM

• Breakfast: Yanggakdo Hotel
• Drive to Mount Myohyang
• International Friendship Exhibition Centre - exposing thousands of presents given to the leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and Comrade Kim Jong Suk (wife of President Kim Il Sung and mother of General Kim Jong Il)
• Pohyon Bhuddist Temple

PM

• Lunch: Chongchon Hotel
• Drive back to Pyongyang
• Korean Film Studio - settings where DPRK movies are filmed. If lucky you may see a North Koreran movie being filmed!
• Korean Art Studio - where statues, paintings, carvings and many forms of DPRK propaganda are produced
• Afternoon entertainment at Golden Lane Bowling Alley - chance to see locals playing and to have a go yourself!
• Farewell Dinner: City restaurant, Pyongang

Overnight: Yanggakdo Hotel, Pyongyang

Day 6 - September 12 (Thursday)

AM

• 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

PM

• Lunch: March 8 Hotel, Sariwon
• Stop outside the Medical University and main city square to explore the area
• 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's food street, chance to taste typical food and enjoy a drink of Korean Makoli with locals
• Drive back to Pyongyang
• Relaxing evening at the Diplomatic Club
• Farewell Dinner: City restaurant, Pyongyang

Overnight: Yanggakdo Hotel, Pyongyang

Day 7 - September 13 (Friday)

AM

• Breakfast
• Transfer to airport - please contact us if interested in exiting by train
• 09.00 amJS 151 flight to Beijing
• 10.00 am arrival in Beijing (Beijing time)

End of our North Korea National Day Tour III