Mass Games 2012 tour
Last updated: Jan 19, 2012
Aug 7 (Tue) - Aug 11 (Sat) Flight in/out
5 days/ 4 nights in DPRK
Pyongyang - Mt.Myohyang - Panmunjom - Kaesong - Pyongyang
Note please! Slight changes in the itinerary are possible after arrival in DPRK.
Day 1 (Tue, Aug 7) - Arrive in Pyongyang by flight JS 152 at 16:00. Meet guides at Sunan airport. Sightseeing city-tour with visiting Arch Triumph (three meter higher than the one in Paris). Check in and dinner at the Yanggakdo 4* Hotel. Expected ARIRANG MASS GAMES*.
Day 2 (Wed, Aug 8) – Breakfast. Drive to Myohyang Mountains. International Friendship Exhibition (Halls of gifts to Eternal President Kim Il Sung and Dear Leader Kim Jong Il), Buddhist temple Pohyon from 11th century. Lunch at Hyangsan Hotel 3*. Trekking in Manpok Valley. Back to Pyongyang. JucheTower(150 m high view over the city, lift is 5 Euro/person). Dinner at Chongryu Restaurant (Hot Pot).
Day 3 (Thur, Aug 9) - Breakfast. Kumsusan Memorial Palace - Mausoleum of President Kim Il Sung (no T-shirts, jeans etc), Mansudae Grand Monument (20 m high bronze statue of Kim Il Sung), US spy ship "Pueblo" (captured by North Korea in1968). Lunch on the Boat Restaurant Pyongyang № 1. Korean War Museum with animated 1:200 models (moving soldiers, blasting bombs and revolutionary music), Mansudae Art Studio, Pyongyang's Metro (probably the deepest and the most beautiful subway in the world-wall size mosaic paintings and marble everywhere, some stations about 150 m under surface), Schoolchildren's Palace tour with children's performance. Dinner at Mangyondae restaurant.
Day 4 (Fri, Aug 10) - Breakfast. Drive to Panmunjom (village, where the 1953 armistice that halted the Korea War was signed), DMZ on the 38 parallel, Concrete wall. Drive to Kaesong - ancient capital of the first unified state on the Korean peninsula (Koryo) and home of Koryo insam (Ginseng). Lunch at Tongil Restaurant with national Korean cuisine Pansanggi. City tour in Kaesong, King Kongmin Tomb, Janamsan Park with wonderful view. Back to Pyongyang. Book & Stamp Shop (you can ask about some "propaganda" posters there). Farewell Dinner at Duck Restaurant.
Day 5 (Sat, Aug 11) – Breakfast. Transfer to Pyongyang airport and departure at 9:00 am. Arrive in Beijing at 9:55 am.
* Attention please! The Mass Games date is a subject to changes.