Photos of the mysterious Pyongyang taken by British photographer Charlie Crane. These are all official tourist sites in the city and Crane was escorted to each site as part of a monitored trip. There are over 3.5 million residents in the city, which is plunged into darkness every evening due to power shortages. Surprisingly, few people who want to visit North Korea are refused entry, “unless they are a spy, a journalist or an American.”
I know where I’m booking my holidays this year!
Where are the people? Also that space shuttle looks pants. I could do better.
Any country that the Middlesbrough ladies footie team considers a jewel in the crown of Asia is OK with me worm, can one book a gite?, are there mixed sauna (both alive and dead allowed in.) will there be English cafe’s, would the tourist shops sell the usual NK souvenirs…skulls, ribs etc. The ladies look well hard so best avoided
Ryanair’s new route…Pyongyang / Dandong
Further thoughts, could the ladies footie team be called the Cloughettes?
North Korea is hidings it’s beauty!!
Well worth a read, possibly even a Dabbler post, is Guy DeLisle’s graphic novel/travelogue Pyongyang. He spent a few months there supervising a team of North Korean animators, and the results were as surreal and bleak as you’d expect.
A graphic novel/travelogue?? How does that even work? Now I’m intrigued!
As a was a student in Beijing in the late 1980s, I heard the most outlandish stories about North Korea. I especially remember one Finnish guy, who spoke about twenty-five languages, visitng the country and coming back with some amazing details about daily life in the country. My only experience of North Korea was living in the same dormitory with North-Korean students, without any doubt the children of high cadres of the Communist party. The male students drank and drank and looked miserable, the girls apparently stole our underwear but this could not be proved. I was told they had to bow to a picture of the Great Leader hanging in their rooms. Somehow, one or maybe more Americans managed to talk to their North Korean counterpart, if I remember well it was about the exchange of some pop music. The good old times!
Curiously reminiscent of the artists impressions of unbuilt hotels in 1970s Horizon holiday brochures