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Alright guys,
So welcome to day two of the North Korea trip.
Beautiful day here in Pyongyang.
Apparently it's gonna be really hot today. Today we're going on a city tour. So we're gonna explore the capital city here.
No idea what to expect as per usual.
I think we're starting the day at some important monuments.
So had to wear long pants to show respect.
So as we arrived at the Kim il-sung and Kim Jong Il monuments our tour coordinator,
Simon, had to buy flowers to place under the statues.
I'm not 100% sure if this is mandatory, but I feel like it is. But I could be wrong.
So when taking photos of these statues we had to be very careful how we took the photos
The leaders had to be fully framed. I think this was just to show how big the statues are.
They're 22 meters tall each the statues were completed in 2012
So they're reasonably new to both sides of the statues. There are
229 figures representing the struggle that the Korean people went through during the war underneath you can see
How mats from the US Army that the Korean people are standing on in the mud gives you an idea of the feelings here.
So as you can see there. Just went to the, uhh,
Main monument of Kim il-sung and Kim jong-il. We had to be extremely respectful there.
No photos with sunglasses on, no selfies, had to have our arms by our sides; and now we're heading off to
Children's Day memorial. So should be a bit kind of ceremony. Cuz it's International Children's Day today, so
See what that's like.
[Korean]
Tour Coordinator [Simon]: So if you're bored there's something to look out for.
So just arrived at the funfair, it's cool. It's like an amusement park. I'm not sure what to expect here
Maybe we get to go on some rides check it out. There's heaps of people here
Just learned an interesting fact about the cars.
There's actually a lot more cars on the road than I expected to see here. All the cars are
divided into categories by number plate.
So depending on the color of the number plate and the numbers; that will tell you what the car connects to. So, blue
number plates belong to a company. Black is military. Green is something to do with the government. I think? Super interesting
It's very rare to have your own car here. If you have your own car band chances, are you've succeeded.
Doing something like, noteworthy, like won the Olympics or being gifted at by the government or something
So as we arrived at this Children's Day celebration we were instantly struck and uh
Fascinated. Because I think it was an extremely important event.
There were cameras everywhere and there was even a drone flying. So basically it was a day was based around children's games
so they'd have events like tug-of-war and
Relays and things. It was pretty cool. One part that I wasn't really sure about though was they had these kids
having to clap these pieces of plastic together and this day was so hot. I think it was in between 35 and 40 degrees centigrade
And these kids are just clapping these bits of plastic together for hours on end.
We spent like three hours there the whole time and
these kids were clapping these things and I don't know how long they were doing that before and after we left so it seemed a
Bit, uh, harsh but apart from that. Super interesting. So check out these clips
All right, so I've come to the back of the amusement park pretty much just been let to
Walk freely. Obviously, I think this is a fenced in area, but it's not as controlled as you'd imagine. There's some cool roller coasters here
I would love I I'd love to be able to ride them
but I think they closed today because it's International Children's Day and they're having the fun fair and
Ceremony and dances whatever they're doing down there completely different than I expected. I mean that's a lot more relaxed
But still the locals don't really kind of look at us.. foreigners? I dunno.
What that's about. I did get to talk to some locals so far though. There's some people that were training to be guides and
It's really nice to to talk to. I'm not sure what we're doing after this
I think we might be going to get lunch or ride the Metro
I think we're gonna ride the Metro which is the world's deepest metro
System in the world. The world's deepest metro stations in Kiev, Ukraine. Which I went to in a past video
But anyway, check back in with you soon. So this clip was a pretty strange but funny experience
I was lying on the grass waiting for the rest of the group because we were here for like three hours
so we had a lot of time to kill. And these kids came over to me and
Started saying things in Korean and pretending to shoot me with toy guns. It was super cool to interact with the kids like that
So you can see from those few shots just how clean and pristine these metro stations work
We rode about five stops all together and stopped at about three stations. So grand and clean
You compare that to let's say Europe. Their metro stations, the graffiti, and things. Here in Pyongyang, It was crystal clean
I swear you could eat your lunch off the ground here
So clean and I think that the locals have a responsibility to help keep the city clean because all throughout Pyongyang. It's so clean
That's incredible the cleanest place. I've been to anyway, you can see this escalator here
This is really similar to the escalators and other parts of the station are really similar to the metro stations in Kiev
Ukraine both the world's deepest metro stations and metro systems
A lot of the architecture is quite similar and I think obviously that's because they were both built in the Soviet era really.
Fascinating to compare metro stations in completely different parts of the world, but just so similar absolutely fascinating.
So we just came out of the metro station. And here's the arch of triumph, or, triumphant. Actually, I believe that's higher than the one in Paris. So.
It's pretty impressive it marks the
date that
North Korea was liberated from the Japanese
1945
So after driving past some more pictures of the leader's faces
We stopped for another beautiful lunch of vegetables, noodles. Everything. Little rice cakes. Beautiful. After lunch
We drove past this big theme park with huge roller coasters
And we arrived at the birthplace of Kim il-sung. So as you can imagine with Kim il-sung being the founder of North Korea
This place is extremely sacred. You have to use your utmost respect here. It's not a place to mess around at all.
So after checking that out, we drove to the supermarket the supermarkets a place
I couldn't get any clips because we weren't allowed to take our cameras in. And here's a little clip that my friend got on his phone
I just got some, um, North Korea money
And, uh, I don't know how much it is.
How much did we get?
We got, like, heaps.
Uhm, ten Euros?
Ten Euros? Or about one hundred Chinese Yen worth.
So, we're gonna try and spend it. It's a lot of money.
I am going to do another video later in this series just about prices in North Korea how expensive is North Korea
But stay tuned for that video later in the series
These are a few pieces of fruit and some nuts that I got for the trip
The supermarket was completely stocked with food and I talked to some locals in there as well
These two young guys came and asked me where I was from which was pretty cool
But yeah, there was heaps of different kinds of food mainly packaged food
There wasn't that much fresh food. Lots of things imported from China, but still a lot of North Korean products as well
I'll talk about that more in the our expensive. It's prettier from the supermarket. We arrived at the War Museum
This War Museum was fascinating. If not, very sad from both sides of the war. These are all tanks here
There's also some planes and a helicopter that was taken from the u.s. During the war
Sunken warship some pictures of some hostages there as well
Pretty heavy stuff. The tour was given by a really lovely young lady wearing a full North Korean army uniform
She was really gentle and soft-spoken and she explained everything from the North Korean side of the war
She showed us one of the Navy ships that they captured from the US as well after this we went inside the museum
But I wasn't allowed to film sadly but it was one of the most incredible museums I've ever seen, you know
Very brutal, but fascinating nevertheless
So we just came out of the war museum
probably spent like an hour or so in there and we had a guide it was I
Don't know how to phrase it but of just so much attention to detail
I'll try and find some photos on Google or something and put them up on the screen now just to show you they had this
big panoramic
Hand-painted 360 took 41 artists and one and a half years to paint, but it was absolutely breathtaking
anyway, now we're
Getting on the bus. We're going to a huge tower that looks over the Pyongyang should be super interesting.
So we've arrived at another monument this one represents the Working Party
Hammer and then the writing brush in the middle and the sickles so the hammer represents the workers the writing brush represents
intellectuals
It's 50 meters high it was built on the 50-year anniversary of
The working party.
Alright guys, so we're bowling now.
Just before dinner. But, check it out.
Gutter ball.
And
Yeah, this is a power cut that happened while we were bowling
But only lasted for about five to ten minutes and then it came back on
From bowling we went into the basement and had a huge spread of food
The food was seriously so good on this trip. They give you beer with every meal. You can see here a barbecue
They also had a large range of vegetables. It was heaven
Alright, guys, so
Back from the day. Huge day. So many activities you see towards the end
And I slowly, uh, stopped putting in clips cuz we were just seeing so many different things. So many monuments
The ones that stood out to me were the big monument to the start with Kim il-sung and Kim jong-il
Made out bronze it was out of this world. Amazing. The museum the museum was epic inside. Sorry
I couldn't show you guys. But you'll have to come and see it for yourself cuz really interesting museum. You know, delicious food again
Love Korean food. Hooked on it now.
Oh and the tower that was definitely cool - a really good view of the whole of Pyongyang there. Tomorrow
We're going for a seven-hour drive. We're actually going to the coast which is apparently quite rare when
the tourists go to the coast
Hotel were staying in is right on a beach. Be able to walk right out the beach go swimming and things
So swimming in North Korea anything we put North Korea on the end. Sounds cool. Anyway, I'm super tired again
probably talking nonsense
Thank you for watching and I will see you tomorrow for the next video
And if you didn't see the last video that was the previous day. That was us flying into North Korea
So go back and check that out if you missed it.
Otherwise, I'll see you tomorrow. Thanks for watching guys and in case I don't see you, good afternoon
Good evening, and good night from North Korea