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A few more pictures taken by another russian tourist.



Hotel



Another shot of the hotel



Monument to soiviet soldiers







Wedding



Another wedding and one of the tourists



A park in Pyongyang



View of Pyongyang from Moran Hill



May 1st, stadium



Bridge



Central House of the Youth



Pioneers



The School Uniform exists but its not toally respected



Soldiers, and they have to serve 6 years...



Favorite pose of koreans during a conversation



Apperently there is no etiquette in the subway, you don't h

ave to let people out before you get in.



Another station



Pioneers and students palace



That famous concert



Probably that escalator that was turned on just for the visitors



Tourists, there were a lot of europeans during the concert



Buldings



Monument of the foundation of the workers party ( Benz :P)



View from the center



You can see the unfinished hotel, it's still unknown why they abandoned it , since other buldings were build



Czechoslovakian trams



The super momument, everyone who comes to see it bows



It's a mystery why it's so clean, also i guess that shot would be concidered illegal since you dont see the whole statue



Cleaning the square



A street next to the Kim il Song monument



People's study palace





Congress palace i think



Theatre



28 dancers sculpture



Kids on rollerskates



Kids



Old buddhist temple



Apprerently there is also a protestant chrurch in Pyongyang



Marble slabs commemorating different organisations and people friendly to NK





View from the Jurche monument ( the one that has dead birds :P)



A night (before they turn off the light)



A street in Pyongyang



People and a BENZ!!!







Underground crossing



No one forbid him to take that picture



He said that people were curious as in " wow a white person"





Nice socks







About the stores



We have visited a local department store. Our girls did not want to take us there ("We don't usually take foreigners to local stores" , but we insisted. As they say, there is nothing to hide. If only from the Americans and Europeans :. It was a regular large department store from the Soviet times, honest (i.e. without signs in English).

As far as food, every thing is not so good (eggs, meat, and something else can only be bought with coupons), other consumer goods are easier to get. For the most part, the merchandise is imported (from China), and quite pricy. Roughly speaking, to buy a regular jacket, a simple Engineer or Interpreter will have to save money for a few months. Approximately the way it was in the Soviet Union.

The saleswomen are obviously different from those in the foreign currency stores (where girls are clearly selected by age, height, and attractiveness). Though, rudeness is apparently not acceptable in Korea, regardless of the status of the store.

The shoppers are common people - both workers and engineers and technical workers. They don't buy very much, mostly look and compare prices before their holiday shopping. In the musical instruments department, someone was playing a piano, put out for sale.

Needless to say, the people in this store were looking at us not even with astonishment and curiosity (like on the streets), but as if we were a hallucination







korean bug



Pyongyang circus



Movie theatre





There was an interesting moment when Alexey had trouble falling asleep and went out of the hotel at 6 in the morning to some random neighborhood. No one stopped him.He walked for about three kilometers, and was finally stopped by a policeman, who asked him for identification (in Korean, naturally). Since, first of all he didn't have identification, and second he knew but a few words in Korean, they could not reach an understanding. A crowd gathered around them quickly (they don't meet foreigners in residential quarters very often and finally there was someone, who knew the word "Russian". That was what he asked Alexey, and Alexey said "yes". After that the feelings got warmer, the policeman took down his name, and let him go. There were no consequences.



Painter in the park



Curious people



Japanese tourists



Food



A quite common sight is a person or several people gathering seeds of some weed on the lawn. In the background - an ice cream sale.









Foreign currency store.

In regards to North Korea, one can not talk about any freedom of speech. Apparently there hasn't been any political change; the government is still in control of the situation in the country.

However there have been economic changes. The foreign currency stores (in the picture) are more widespread. That is to say that (by hearsay) they existed here since the mid-70's, and locals were not denied access to them.

The selection in the stores is wide, especially when it comes to food. It's a little worse with the industrial goods. The modern electronics are pretty expansive (for instance, a SD/MMC card costs about twice as much as in St. Petersburg).

I saw some Koreans in the store (they were well to do of course), there are no noticeable checks or restrictions at the entrance.





Now there are joint businesses with foreigners - restaurants. A restaurant can only be owned by a foreigner - for example Japanese (see a photo above, where a waitress is playing an instrument). The local population can work for a foreign owner, but can not own the restaurant.

Not a bad way to keep the economy under control.

In the picture: The Koreans are shy of carrying their babies behind their back sometimes. As I was told, the South Koreans do this also, however this is "countryside style". Also, I heard that as a result of being carried this way, children's legs can often get disfigured.





Also, there are cooperatives. In the North Korean version, a cooperative is a team, which produces some articles (for instance, collects and dries cochlea beer snack, or makes chewing gum), sells them, and splits up the profit equally among all the members. The types of business and products are limited, and a state license is required.

The result is approximately the same as in our country in the late 1980's: the selection in the cooperative stores is wider than in the state owned stores, but the prices are considerably higher.

The cooperative products are usually of a lower quality than those in the state owned stores (sometimes it's enough to look at the package to realize that).

















A short distance from the town is the Hyangsang Hotel where we stayed during our visit to Myohyang.

A revolving restaurant is at the top. It features very scenic views.





map in the hotel hall.

The main attraction in these mountains is the abundance of waterfalls.

The river you see here passes by the hotel and has the same name as the mountains - Myohyan







All of us.









With about 200 large halls and the splendor the palace is comparable to the Hermitage (with the exception of the style of architecture and the modern building materials, of course).

No cameras are allowed (I think this is the only place in North Korea, where we could not take pictures ?all possessions have to be left in lockers.

Inside are valuable presents given to Kim-Ir-Sen. I must note that all the exhibits are really interesting. That is, all items are either works of art or interesting in other ways (for instance a train car given to Kim-Ir-Sen by Stalin in 1946).

From modern Russia I noticed:

1. Painting of Vasilievskiy Island Point given by Putin.

2. A silver service given by Putin also.

3. A plate given by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.

Also there are rifles and other items given by Stalin, Khruschev, Brejnev



We were very impressed by a large landscape with trees and buildings, neatly carved out of ivory by Chinese craftsmen. In general, I would say, Chinese gave the most interesting and accurately crafted gifts.

Among the givers were also the leaders of South Korea, South Korean companies ?for example the president of Daewoo gave Kim-Ir-Sen a car.





The palace guards.

Notice that the Kalashnikovs are nickel plated.

The doors are one-piece bronze, weighing several ton each. One can open them by hand (the guide gives out a special glove to pull on the handle , but the weight is considerable.





This is the second building, the presents to Kim-Chen-Ir. It is much more modest both outside and inside. It is also smaller.

Most striking is a wax statue of Kim-Ir-Sen in the middle of artificial meadow surrounded by birch trees with sky in the background. The tree leaves even move with the artificial wind coming from a fan. The lighting is well designed, and the whole thing looks real. I think it was also given by the Chinese.

One small thing to note: it뭩 strange, but I noticed that practically all the buildings in the country (regardless of their status and decor) have identical light switches



A local tour guide.





Here we asked the driver to stop the car and I took some pictures. This village doesn't look very well-being, there're some more decent. Also it's not so characteristic: buildings stands irregularly.





Obelisk" on a background - is a feature, necessary for all settlements. Usually the neutral, simple slogan is written there (a challenge to work and learn better and so on).





Machines typical for village - GAZ (probably made in Northern Korea, not in Russia) and a lorry - with gas generator.

This car works with firewood, but I have to underline, that it's NOT a steam machine, but GAS-generator (Usual internal combustion engine, just re-made). It's not gasoline, of course, so the max speed is about 20-30 km per hour.

The firewood (at the right) are prepared for lorry. They're put by portions into the can (is seen in the back of a lorry) and slowly burn there.

We've seen such machines about five times in general.







The roofs are usually made of tiles or something like that.









nd this is the more typical Northern Korea village.

Houses are identical, located by uniform group, usually in parallel or straight lines.

If mountains prevents, then houses locates by few groups on both sides of the mountain.







The one more curious moment - about cellular communication. It exists (not less than GSM), but for foreigners it does not operate (no roaming). More of that, the girls told us that it's forbidden to take the mobile phone into the country (on border it will be taken from you, on departure it'll be given back). But I have taken phone without questions, and have written about it to declarations, and on the way back the frontier-guard has seen it.

Certainly, it was not possible to speak by phone, but I knew the one curious thing: everywhere we've been (quite a big area) - the network of cellular communication also was everywhere, stably half of a scale (I shall remind - here's a hilly country). Though I did not see any base stations. Maybe, they mask them as mountains?

Not long ago I heard in Russian TV news, that mobile phones were taken away from Northern Korea people. Hah! They should've thought what they invent! How could any Korean have cellular phone, when for the sum which there's a mobile phone costs, here it's possible to live about a year? : Abundantly clear, that this service at the moment is only for militarians and officials of a decent level. And there's no point to take mobile phones from them (it's easier to turn off the base stations).





A notice: the houses in russian villages are usually decorated, decorations on the wicket-gates, fences, carved window-frames and so on. Although, the house can be leaned-over :

I didn't see anything like that in Korea. I mean, village houses are not decorated at all.

I've been told later, that south-korean villages look the same way as northern.





About a heating.

In Korea (and maybe, in the East in general) the traditional way of heating in the houses is not the same as in Russia. They don't install ovens. Near the house there is something like a hole where coal or fire wood is pawned. The warmed air goes through under the floor and heats the house. Probably, it is connected with tradition to sit on a floor. This system is still used. Not only in villages, but also in guide's cabin near any distant sightseeing.

What is not clear for me in this system - and how about an intoxication, a smoke and other?





Probably, the cement factory





nd this is the modern settlement.

The structure is similar, but houses already more thorough. Moreover, want to admit, that in Russia such houses appears when the village grows to larger settlement. Here it is not like that. By it's size, it's still a village, just the houses are modern.

Under a polyethylene film - the rice grows









Evident propaganda

By the writing 106% it is possible to assume, that it is a question about exceeding the plan





And here we went out without support and have decided to take a walk . At first we've walked along the embankment. (where is the electrified fence???)





Alexey tries to buy some local bubblegums and other stuff?br />
From four standing near to each other cooperative kiosks the only one seller didn't want to talk to us. In her own will. She just pointedly turned away with very dissatisfied physiognomy. But we've had no problems with others, including the currency payments.





Here begins the ordinary village.





Basically, comparing to Russia, nothing really terrible.

But Europeans really have got nothing to do here

The population is friendly (the worst thing we've seen - the man just passed us by, pretending that does not notice us). Nobody importunes, nobody asks for money.

Just the kids at the embankment near the hotel tried to talk to us (they knew the only word - "OK" : )

They were completely satisfied with a candy.





As I noticed before, houses are fenced by continuous fences, for neighbors and passers-by couldn't see what's going on inside. Actually, there's nothing special inside.

Alexey here continued to hunt for bubblegums. The local population did not object (here and there on the ground the pieces of a fabric with the fine goods laid.

Nobody protested to take dollars. But sometimes sellers ran away to ask neighbors. Also nobody haggled with us - we just changed bubblegums to 1 dollar banknotes in more or less reasonable parity





Somewhere there're more decent houses. Also the lots somewhere organized as in Russia - without continuous fences. But it's not characteristic.

The nature and landscapes - right here - looks like Leningrad region .

Couple of ravines, pines, sand. The road is ordinary too.

Only, if to look narrowly, unknown plants come across, and those that are known, look slightly not so.

Here our small walk finished. We have returned to hotel, fairly having informed girls about our vile act It has not made a special impression on them.

I think, at the moment in the places, where it's needed :, the general representation about us was already made. They realized that we're not seeking the pictures with rubbish heaps and ruins. So, they just winked at this.





The coast, the beach and us.

This is the Japan sea. But Koreans (including southern) call it "Eastern Sea of Korea". About their relations with Japan I already wrote earlier.

It's still too cold to swim. But we've walked barefoot at the water.

Need to say that any visible restrictions on an output to coast are not observed (I read in one article before the trip, that a barbed wire is everywhere

The other thing, that there're almost no boats at the horizon. Maybe, it's not allowed to swim out by boats and fisherman-ships?