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UPDATED March 2, 2015

The Ebola travel ban has been lifted and we can resume tours to North Korea. Our first tour this year will be our 5-Day Standard tour at the end of March. We’re taking bookings [...]

I was given a rare treat. It was not an expensive piece of jewelry, or a free ticket to Hawaii. It was better than that. I took a 3-hour ride through all 16 of the stations in the Pyongyang Metro, [...]

INTRODUCING THE NOUL TABLET: DPRK’S ALTERNATIVE TO THE IPAD MINI

Disclaimer: We did not spend loads of time with this product, so this review is meant to be introductory. We would also like to mention that this is not [...]

The DPRK has several state-owned and run Pyongyang style restaurants in Shanghai, and other cities in China like Beijing. We went to the Xuhui location in Shanghai and it’s worth a visit.

Although we’ve had better North Korean cuisine in [...]

UPDATE SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The Pyongyang International Pro-Wrestling Friendship Games was nothing short of entertaining and fascinating! We saw all of the action up close and personal, with the “Beast” (American wrestler Bob Sapp) wowing the local crowd, Brasil’s Montanha [...]

UPDATED OCTOBER 21, 2015
Our Shanghai departure tours will be temporarily suspended from November 1, 2015 to March 2016. It’s been a great year from Shanghai and we’re looking forward to offering more exciting tours next year. Stay tuned [...]

We just returned from our first bike tour of North Korea, covering over 150km of pure DPRK terrain! We rode on routes never before biked on by foreigners, through busy city streets as well as other remote areas seeing [...]

The Meari Shooting Range re-opened after a year of renovations in March 2014! It’s located in the new Sports District of Pyongyang and we have the first look. Come take a virtual tour!

Shooting practice in a controlled environment [...]

Updated October 24, 2014

Before we get started, see our primer post from our FIRST SKI TRIP TO THE MASIK PASS for general resort information.

Now that you’re all caught up, here’s the LATEST: [...]

Today our CEO Andrea Lee took a trip to the Masik Pass Skiing Ground, North Korea’s newly opened ski resort. Below are just a few pictures and observations from her trip. For those interested, we are offering several ski trips [...]

Today, our DPRK partners told us that North Korea’s new ski resort, officially named the Masik Pass Skiing Ground, may open as early as this week! Today’s newspaper in Pyongyang clearly shows an operational chairlift servicing [...]

Want to swim, rock climb, get a haircut and work out all in the same place? Well, now you can at this massive water park in North Korea! The DPRK has opened the Munsu Water Park in Pyongyang open to [...]