10D 7N ENIGMATIC NORTH KOREA (Tour Code : KPNKS) Validity : April - November
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10D 7N ENIGMATIC NORTH KOREA (Tour Code : KPNKS) Validity : April - November DAY 02 BEIJING - DAY 04 PYONGYANG TOUR HIGHLIGHTS PYONGYANG (Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner) (Meal on Board / Dinner) KUMSUSAN PALACE OF THE SUN NORTH KOREA Welcome to Pyongyang. The largest mausoleum in the world PYONGYANG at 115,000 square feet. It serves as a Kumsusan Palace of the Sun Be transferred to your hotel for mausoleum of the DPRK leadership Ryomyong Street dinner and a good night’s rest. where President Kim Il Sung and Arch of Triumph General Kim Jong Il lie in state in Mangyongdae Children’s Palace DAY 03 PYONGYANG - glass coffins in separate rooms. Gwangbok Department Store KAESONG - PYONGYANG Make a bow at the feet and both Mansudae Fountain Park (Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner) sides of the body when you enter Mansudae Great Monument PANMUNJOM, ARMISTICE VILLAGE, the hall, passing by the head Tower of Juche Idea DEMILITARIZED ZONE without stopping while walking out Kim Il Sung Square The site of the signing of the 1953 in a line. Metro Train Ride armistice that ended the Korean RYOMYONG STREET Kaeson Youth Park War and demarcation line The area is the latest in a series of Victorious Fatherland Liberation between the 2 Koreas. You will be renovation districts with apartments War Museum briefed by an army escort before here housing primarily academics US Spy Ship Pueblo visiting the Armistice Talks Hall. and scientists. Mangyongdae Native House KAESONG STAMP EXHIBITION & ARCH OF TRIUMPH (VIEW) SOUVENIR SHOP MT MYOHYANG Built in 1982, the monument is the A place to pick up some North International Friendship Exhibition second tallest triumphal arch in the Korean souvenirs including stamps, Centre world. It was built to honour and Pohyong Buddhist Temple ginseng products, souvenirs etc. commemorate President Kim Il KORYO MUSEUM Sung’s role in the liberation of Korea KAESONG This Unesco World Heritage Site was from the Japanese rule. Panmunjom once the Songgyung Academy, a Inaugurated on his 70th birthday, Armistice Village Confucius School and now a with each of its 25,500 blocks of Demilitarized Zone museum exhibiting historical finely dressed white granite Stamp Exhibition and Souvenir objects etc of the Koryo Dynasty. representing a day of his life up to Shop that point. Koryo Museum MAUSOLEUM OF KING WANG KON Mausoleum of King Wang Kon The recently listed Unesco World MANGYONGDAE CHILDREN’S Kim Il Sung Statue at Jangnam Hill Heritage Site of Mausoleum of King PALACE Wang Kon. The king who Join the local children in WONSAN established Koryo dynasty and the Mangyongdae Children’s Palace Ulim Waterfall first king to unify Korea. dedicated to children’s after Wonsan Old Train Station school activities. Sit back and enjoy KIM IL SUNG STATUE AT JANGNAM Chonsam Co-Operative Farm world-class performance by the HILL children. (Visit is only possible on MASIKRYONG SKI RESORT See the giant bronze statue of Thursdays). President Kim Il Sung at Janam Hill. MT KUMGANG Take in the spectacular views of the GWANGBOK DEPARTMENT STORE Kuryong Waterfalls city and the entire old part from the Shop at Gwangbok Department Eight Fairies Pond hill. Store, one of the few places where Sea Kumgang you can use the local North Korean ARCH OF REUNIFICATION Won to shop with the citizens. Get Samil Lake Made up from 2 women some of Pyongyang’s best local symbolizing both Koreas, together snacks on the supermarket. PYONGYANG holding a map of the reunified DAY 01 SINGAPORE - Korean Peninsula, the Arch was DAY 05 PYONGYANG - opened in August 2001 to BEIJING WONSAN - MT KUMGANG Assemble for your airport check in commemorate Korean re- unification proposals put forward (Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner) at Singapore Changi International Drive to Wonsan, eastern port city Airport. by President Kim II Sung. of North Korea. NAM HO TRAVEL SERVICE (S) PTE LTD People’s Park Complex, 1 Park Road, #01-84D/E, Singapore 059108 T: +65 6221 8433 | E: [email protected] | W: www.namho.com.sg 10D 7N ENIGMATIC NORTH KOREA (Tour Code : KPNKS) Validity : April - November WONSAN ULIM WATERFALL MANSUDAE GREAT MONUMENT Hidden amongst the mountains on Enormous bronze statues of the 2 INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP ‘Echo’ Waterfall is a scenic former leaders here overlooks EXHIBITION CENTRE stopover for lunch and to stretch downtown Pyongyang. A The International Friendship your legs. presentation of flowers and bow by Exhibition Centre houses gifts group members is customary. presented to former leaders Kim Il WONSAN OLD TRAIN STATION Note: This is a government Sung and Kim Jong Il from various (PHOTO) administered sight. Visit may be foreign dignitaries. Among the over See the steam engine and train cancelled without prior notice and 100,000 items gifted to the leaders carriage used by President Kim Ill any replacement / Decent dress are: Green railway cars from China Sung back in in 1945. code to be observed (No open toe and Russia, a bronze tank from the shoes, shoulders and legs must be CHONSAM CO-OPERATIVE FARM USSR headquarters in East Germany, covered) a gold cigarette case from Take a peek inside one of the local’s homes. TOWER OF JUCHE IDEA Yugoslavia’s Tito, etc, just to list a few. This iconic tower overlooks the Have your lunch and return to DAY 06 MT KUMGANG - Taedong River and dedicated to Pyongyang. the country’s guiding philosophy. MASIKRYONG SKI RESORT DAY 09 PYONGYANG - (Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner) An elevator takes you to the top for MT KUMGANG great views of the city. BEIJING (Breakfast / Lunch) Rise early and get ready to visit the KIM IL SUNG SQUARE remarkable Mt Kumgang otherwise VICTORIOUS FATHERLAND Pyongyang’s central square where LIBERATION WAR MUSEUM named as 12,000 peaks. North Korea’s massive military Composed of thousands of rugged, This world class museum was parades normally, mass renovated in 2012 with exhibits of the glittering granite and diorite peaks, demonstration, political events etc cliffs, steep ravines, waterfalls, Mt Korean War. take place. Kumgang is a region of breath- US SPY SHIP PUEBLO taking beauty and thought to have METRO TRAIN RIDE This is the only U.S. Navy ship help the most beautiful scenery in the Take the opportunity to go on a ride captive by a foreign government. entire Korean Peninsula. Hike to the with the locals on the Pyongyang scene Nine Dragons waterfall Metro. The metro is among the MANGYONGDAE NATIVE HOUSE through forests, along mountain deepest in the world with over The birthplace of President Kim Il streams and emerald pools. Stop 110m with stunning artwork Sung. The area has been kept in by Eight Fairies Pond, Sea Kumgang reflecting name of each station. pristine condition and is considered and Samil Lake. a sacred site to the locals. KAESON YOUTH PARK Have your lunch and proceed to the Meet the locals enjoying themselves DAY 07 MASIKRYONG SKI airport for your flight home via at the park in the evening. RESORT - PYONGYANG Beijing. (Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner) DAY 08 PYONGYANG - MT Return to Pyongyang. DAY 10 BEIJING - MYOHYANG - PYONGYANG SINGAPORE KING TONGMYONG’S TOMB (Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner) (Meal on Board) JONGRUNG TEMPLE MT MYOHYANG Connect your flight home. This beautiful tomb complex is the One of the 6 celebrated mountains largest of the Unesco listed Koryo of Korea, known for its mystically Tombs belonging to the founder of shaped peaks and unique the Korgyo Dynasty over 2,000 years fragrances found in the area. ago. History buffs will be fascinated Surrounded by lush pine tree forests by the lovely wall paintings, statues and the fresh, clear streams, Mount Important Note : and the Buddhist monastery. Next Myohyang is known for being home - Minimum 2 to travel to it, is the small Jongrung Temple to the International Friendship - Tour is conducted in English where prayers were said for the Exhibition Centre and Pohyon - If similar hotel category is not deceased King. Buddhist Temple. available, supplement may MANSUDAE FOUNTAIN PARK apply for a higher category POHYON BUDDHIST TEMPLE - Excludes tipping for driver Historic centre in the capital city, Built during the Koryo Dynasty almost guide etc popular with the local citizens 1,000 years ago, the temple is one of after school and on weekends. the few places of worship in North Korea open to foreign visitors. NAM HO TRAVEL SERVICE (S) PTE LTD People’s Park Complex, 1 Park Road, #01-84D/E, Singapore 059108 T: +65 6221 8433 | E: [email protected] | W: www.namho.com.sg .