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Popular Off the Beaten Path | Other Off the Beaten Path Tips | All Tips (6) If there is a path off the beaten one - you won't be permitted to tread along it anyway - so forget it. You can't help feeling there's a lot more that you're not allowed to see, which can be very frustrating. But think of it this way, if smeone invited you into their house and showed you around, would you demand to see the rooms they hadn't shown you? Don't forget, you're not there as a 'tourist', you're a 'guest' of the DPRK.
The only time you get away from it all is when they take you into the mountains. However, even here, in what appears to be the middle of nowhere - the mountains and rock-faces are replete with huge murals praising Kim Il Sung and the revolution (in Korean, of course) carved into the rock itself. These things are huge and must have taken hundreds of man-hours to produce. I can honestly say that no matter where we were during our entire time in the DPRK we could always see at least one slogan or poster - even in the middle of the countryside with no dwellings around for miles.
The picture on the left is on one of the subway stations - they're all like this. Leave a Comment
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For better photographic results, the best seasons to visit NK are winter ore enventually autumn. Avoid spring and summer, as it often rains and as there is much vegetation, you will get crappy green-and-grey shots, mostly without any sun... Leave a Comment
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I've never heard anyone swam at the North Korean sea shore. Fortunately, my family has been there and spent several hours without anyone around us. The water is not as clean as that at Thailand, but the spacious beach was REALLY ours. Great experience. Leave a Comment
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You'll know at least 30 days in advance what you'll see. And that's it. We tried to negotiate with guides to show us something outside our schedule, first answer is always maybe, maybe, but next day, after they consult their superiors...answer is: not scheduled, or not open, or we don't have time. Anyway, it's funny to listen their "white lies", and how they want to be polite but aware that they are telling lies sometimes. Almost like a game. :-) FUN ! Leave a Comment
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