Approximately half our tour group spent the morning of our second day in North Korea running some part of the Pyongyang Marathon. The rest of us watched the start and finish of the run and two soccer matches in the Kim Il-sung Stadium.
It was a relief, especially to those who ran, to hear that, rather than a packed afternoon’s sightseeing in Pyongyang, we would be going down to Kaesong where we would spend the night and have a look at a few sights there prior to our trip to Panmunjom and the Demilitarized Zone, on the border with South Korea, the following day.
Kaesong is about 10 kms from the border and the trip from Pyongyang, by bus, took us approximately three hours.
I have given a full account of my trip down the Reunification Highway on a couple of Panmunjom reviews.
Rather than repeat identical information here I invite you to read the following two reviews on my Panmunjom page. Do return here having done so!
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The Reunification Highway
Dining al fresco en route to the DMZ
The picture above is of the Reunification Monument, our first stop on the outskirts of Pyongyang. Further details on this amazing piece of work can be found on my Reunification Monument review.
For those who may not have seen the Team America skit alluded to in the title of my first picture attached, have a look here for some light relief – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEaKX9YYHiQ Oddly enough, this was not shown on the bus to Keasong!
This blog entry is one of a group (loop) of entries based on my visit to Kaesong, North Korea. I suggest you continue with my next entry – Kim Il-sung Watching from on High – or to start this loop at the beginning go to my introductory entry – North Korea’s win from the Korean War.
The Rambling Wombat 