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Dprk Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Otherwise known as North Korea today working up on this seaside resort
That's sitting on it here in the biggest seaport town of North Korea today
We are heading to the mountains, I believe and we're going hiking there should be a pretty good trip
Just having my morning coffee yet
what do I normally do in the mornings here as I wake up about an hour before the bus leaves and the coffee and just
Look out the window because from here I've got views. I've got the city over here and then over here. I have the
Seat those shots that you just saw
What I can see from the window, sir, pretty cool hotel room here and it's massive, you know
I wasn't expecting it to be that's nice. It is extremely rich
Oh, it's very old school design and things but I like its kind of rooms
Yeah, I got a lot of character without any further ado. We've got a bed
It's free our drive to the mountains and then I guess we'll be hiking in
North Korea, so
Yeah, let's go
Morning morning, thank you. Oh good
You
Now guys so we've just been driving for maybe an hour or so
Sorry about the footage being a bit bumpy, but the roads are really not the best
So we've just stopped with this tea house on the beach here, beautiful
We've only got like 10 minutes here, which is a shame
but I've got to get moving so we can go hiking that's so amazing to seeing that that
Farmland and the workers and things and it really is a time machine. I'll get a couple shots of this Beach area
Get back on the road and we have lunch and then we go hiking
You see all the buildings here at like from a different time period it's kind of trapped in time once you leave beyond
yang and Pyongyang
There's lots of modern buildings and things but once you go out of Pyongyang the capital then everything is back in time kind of
So the are the mountain tsubame and we
Okay, so it just arrived in this village here below what's called diamond mountain which we're gonna be climbing soon
I'll show you the landscape. That's pretty beautiful
but this hotel is like
Seriously luxurious compared to all we've been staying in I'll give you a little tour in just the city
But we're just here for a little while
Just checking in and then we're going to it Lagoon and then we're having lunch and then we're Continental
Let me show you this room and then I'll show you the view so that this is the door where you come in
Then you've got a nice
Bathroom. Yeah, it's really modern
compared to where else we have been and
Nice
clean sheets and
Then check that out
Beautiful
So, I'm not sure which one of these mountains
Were gonna be climbing but it's been eight kilometres hike today. So we'll get all sort of here head off surprised again
Instead of going to the lagoon we ended up driving straight to lunch. It was another incredible spread different kinds of mushrooms
salads little wraps
kimchi soup for the meat-eaters
They brought out this boiling hot
River stone that they had preheated and then they set the meat on top of it
And if you wanted to you could cook your own meat. I believe it was pork. I'm not sure I didn't try it
But my friends said it was delicious
That guy said we've had lunch now we're walking out this mountain
They were going to just under 900 meters above sea level today. This pathway is really nice through the trees
We got these big beautiful bridges here and just huge mountains or surrounding us and you can see they've got Korean riding on them
Some of this these engravings 10 meters high a few meters wide and one made a deep
Some guys painting the bread shit
Hello
Sometimes they say things about the grand lady doesn't much love that one season
Got another maybe arrow. So to go it's like eight kilometres and we're kind of allowed to walk on her own here
So it's nice to get some breathing space
These guys are just holding on to the side of this massive bridges painting them holding on with one hand
Extreme
Arrive to the top. It's wonderful majestic took that and the Scriptures captain's beside
Alright guys, so we just made it to the top of this other mountain we climbed up from that waterfall
You just saw and there's seriously if it you
You will not believe this
Check it out
Seriously incredible this is some of the coolest nature I've seen well like most unique. It's just crazy how this was North Korea, you know
Totally not expecting this and the walking trails are in great condition. They're all like freshly painted
The reason that this is so well maintained is because it was originally made for South Korean tourists
This whole area was leased by
Hyundai the same company that makes the cars and they built the hotel that we're staying in is actually built by a South Korean company
and still owned but now South Koreans aren't allowed in here anymore because of an incident where
South Korean was shot long story. I'll explain evaded
But yeah, this whole area was leased
Thousands and thousands of South Korean tourists coming here that stopped after the incident, but this is actually the area where the South Koreans
United with their families
from North Korea when that happens
It normally takes place in this area back down in the town where our hotel is pretty interesting
Anyway, I'll show you some more shots of this whole area because it's truly something stunning
Check it out
So all done with that hike there and just out-of-this-world scenery and all to ourselves
we were the only people there a few of us from the group went to the very top and as you could see from the
Views there was absolutely stunning. So very lucky to have that all to ourselves. I mean who knows in the future?
maybe it'll be really busy but
For now, it's just us now
We're heading to another kind of landscaping beautiful area some kind of a lagoon area
Again, not sure what to expect that
Let's go and see from here. We drove to the lagoon
But on the way we passed this building and this building here is where the North and South Korean families
Reunited when it does happen
It's very rare when it has happened in the past that's happened at these buildings here pretty special location
And then we arrived at the lagoon
Beautiful Lagoon here and then we headed back to the hotel
Alright guys back from there. Hi, if you see those last few clips, that was just cheating and villager pretty beautiful
Just like the other walk. We did up that mountain incredible scenery. I think it's kind of similar to Chinese
Scenery obviously but no tourists as I said before they used to be thousands and thousands of tourists here coming from South Korea
But since an incident where the South Korean was shot, it's completely cut off the tourism
I think this afternoon coming up put a ban on that since it happened
so I think it's half Korean walked into a military base in which shop so
That's all the details I know so that's just from what I've been told anyway, so now there's nobody yet
There was no North Korean tourists up there and all that means or but they were doing lots of maintenance up there painting yet
I don't know if that's because it's coming to summer time and they're expecting a lot of tourists or I really don't know that being
So called lately. It was 38 degrees
I think yesterday that in for it's 35 today
Before I continue what I was saying that I just want to show you around this hotel because it's pretty interesting
So I'll show you just one or two features that kind of
to me and then we'll continue with the after they've I think a quick tour of the hotel is a
something pretty interesting
She still the plastic wrap on
these light sheds
But I'll take you for a walk down to the hotel lobby because it's unreal. I'll show you
So on the tenth floor right now, normally they've been putting us really quite high up in the hotel rooms look at this
Unreal
But it's like super modern but you'll notice a few bits and pieces on the edges on
Completely like finish like I'm not trying to make it look really bad
Just showing some little things that no stuck out to me is a super beautiful hotel this cute painting down you're free
Hopefully the hotel staff don't get we had me filming but they should be okay. I'll show you know, I probably won't talk too much
Okay
So this is the mountain where general Kim jong-il was born
The grand entrance there I
Know I've said it a lot but you have to remember that there was used to be heaps of tourists here, but now it's empty
but here you can get a beer for like two euros or something and
Three waters for one u.s. Dollar. There's no one around. That's really quite bizarre
It looks like there's more upstairs. I'll go and see if I can
Explore up this and they play this music seriously everywhere you go
They got pool
Table tennis
That's the mountain ranges hello
Karaoke
Very beautiful and then you can always buy things though. We're selling bits and pieces
It's the tiger which is the national animal I think I have a few up north but not many around this area
Am I allowed to go up here? Can I yeah, okay
It's really quite beautiful I guess that's where we're having dinner tonight
Incredible at work you very
It's unreal
And I think our group are the only people staying in this whole place people behind me and my group
Ten people in our group in this whole hotel 12 to 15 stories high, but like it's seriously
incredible look at this a
Really kind of magic something like this exists it might be a few Chinese guests in there
I'm not quite sure cut back to the outro that I was originally doing but I just filmed this little clip because I
filmed the outro first and then I was like, I want to show this hotel, so
Anyway enough talking see you tomorrow tomorrow. We're going back to Pyongyang
So I think we might go to the ski resort on the way
It'd be interesting to check that out
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