Bukhara, the beautiful Silk Road City with a dark history. Bukhara is majestic. It’s beautiful. Sand stone buildings, tall minarets and vast mosques greet the traveller who arrives in what is one of Uzbekistan’s, and Central Asia’s finest...
The Infamous North Korean Pheasant Massacre ‘The next stop is the shooting range!’ My North Korean tour guide Miss Pak exclaimed with a bit too much zeal for my nervous tourist’s disposition as we were driven through the streets of Pyongyang. I...
The North Korean DMZ: The World’s Most Volatile Divide It was the morning after the night before. I woke up in my hotel room in Pyongyang. What the hell happened? Mr Han- my North Korean tour guide- had beaten me at Ping Pong, and then he’d destroyed my...
In the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea I went for an underground ride on the Pyongyang metro system! Few tourists make it to the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea, but for those brave travellers that do, a highlight is a ride on the...
I took a trip to the world’s most heavily fotified border on the DMZ Spy Tour! The Korean Demilitarized Zone- the DMZ- is one of the most tense, volatile and heavily armed borders in the world. Since 1953 this buffer zone has separated North Korea from...
I took to the skies of Pyongyang on one of the first helicopter flights for tourists over the capital city of North Korea! Pyongyang International Airport was completely deserted. There was no activity on the runway. No arrivals. No departures. The airport is a...
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