
This picture is captured from Koryo Excursions‘ web site, Feb. 3. Yonhap
A Chinese language tour company specializing in North Korean excursions has opened bookings for journey applications to North Korea’s northeastern metropolis of Rason, scheduled for February by April, its web site confirmed Monday.
The „Rason Kim Jong-il Birthday Tour“ is scheduled to depart on Feb. 12, in addition to in March and April, in accordance with the web site of Koryo Excursions.
This month’s tour, priced at 706 euros ($722.03), consists of 4 nights in Rason and two nights in China’s Yanji, in addition to visits to factories, markets and different vacationer locations in Rason and a Taekwondo present.
The birthday of late former North Korean chief Kim Jong-il falls on Feb. 16, a nationwide vacation in North Korea, generally known as the Day of the Shining Star.
In a associated discover, the company mentioned the applications for February, March and April are „not but confirmed“ because it awaits additional data on the border opening date in Rason.
North Korea seems set to simply accept Chinese language vacationers to Rason, as one other China-based agency, Younger Pioneer Excursions, has begun accepting purposes for a tour to Rason scheduled for early March.
The nation can be scheduled to open the brand new Kalma vacationer zone alongside the east coast for service in June, with expectations that it could search to draw international vacationers as a means of incomes international foreign money amid U.N. sanctions. (Yonhap)