North Korea Summer Tour 2012
North Korea Summer Tour. The application deadline for our standard North Korea Summer Tour is May 30th 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 - June 19 (Tue)
- 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 - June 20 (Weds)
AM
- Breakfast: Yanggakdo Hotel
- Drive to Mount Myohyang
- International Friendship Exhibition Centre - exposing thousands of presents given to Kim Il Sung, his son Kim Jong Il and his wife Kim Jong Suk
- Pohyon Temple
PM
- Lunch: Chongchon Hotel
- Drive back to Pyongyang
- Ride on Pyongyang Metro, the deepest in the world, with locals
- Juche Tower - chance to go up the 150 metre tower (170 metres includingthe torch) that offers a panoramic view of Pyongyang
- Dinner: Rungrado Restaurant, Pyongyang
Overnight: Yanggakdo Hotel, Pyongyang
Day 3 - June 21 (Thurs)
- Breakfast: Yanggakdo Hotel
- Kumsusan Memorial Palace (Kim Il Sung's Mausoleum where the body of Kim Il Sung lies in state)
- Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery
PM
- Lunch: local restaurant in Pyongyang
- Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum (Korean War Museum)
- USS Pueblo - US spy ship captured in 1968. The only US vessel in possession of a foreign country
- Children's Palace with performance
- Drive to Kaesong
- Check-in Minsok Hotel
Day 4 - June 22 (Fri)
AM 
- Breakfast: Minsok Hotel
- 38th Parallel (DMZ) - chance to enter the famous blue negotiation rooms where talks between North & South Korea have taken place
- Koryo Museum (Kaesong)
PM
- Lunch at Tongil Restaurant (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 Kongmin
- Return to Pyongyang
- Mangyongdae - Kim Il Sung's birthplace
- Monument to the Foundation of the Korean Workers' Party
- Walk around Kim Il Sung Square
- Farewell Dinner: Duck BBQ, Pyongyang
Overnight: Yanggakdo Hotel, Pyongyang
Day 5 - June 23 (Sat)
AM
- Breakfast
- Train to Beijing
PM
- Stopover at Sinuiju train station bordering China
Overnight: train
Day 6 - June 24 (Sun)
Arrive in Beijing at 08:31 am
End of tour
Please click go to our North Korea Tourism page to see more information on other tours that we offer other than our North Korea Summer Tour.
