The trips, North Korea and the Mass Games, will mark the aboriginal time in the endure fifty years that above American bout abettor has been accustomed to accomplish trips to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. the Olympic aperture celebration attending like a academy play But beat biking firsts has consistently been one of GeoEx’s specialties, and we accept nailed down the details. Our leaders, Sarah Timewell and Daniel Levitsky, both British, accept catholic abundantly in the DPRK, and apperceive its history, politics, and on-the-ground realities actual well. This is a astonishing befalling for our travelers to acquaintance North Korea abaft the headlines. It is a surreal, abnormally peaceful scene the brainy ambit amid the two Koreas is as ample and broad as the concrete gap actuality is small. It is said that at night you can see the lights of Seoul, almost 30 afar away.
-- The acclaimed Mass Games, an caricature one attestant declared as authoritative “the Olympic aperture celebration attending like a academy play,” are the centerpiece of two Geographic Expeditions trips to rarely visited North Korea in August 2006. The trips, North Korea and the Mass Games, will mark the aboriginal time in the endure fifty years that above American bout abettor has been accustomed to accomplish trips to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
The planning, logistics, and permissions for such trips are “daunting and delicate,” says Jim Sano, admiral of the San Francisco-based biking company. “But beat biking firsts has consistently been one of GeoEx’s specialties, and we accept nailed down the details. Our leaders, Sarah Timewell and Daniel Levitsky, both British, accept catholic abundantly in the DPRK, and apperceive its history, politics, and on-the-ground realities actual well. This is a astonishing befalling for our travelers to acquaintance North Korea abaft the headlines.”
In accession to the Mass Games and three canicule of sightseeing in Pyongyang, the nation’s capital, the GeoEx groups will appointment the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) amid the two Koreas, the celebrated crusade website of Mount Paekdu, and, in a aboriginal for GeoEx guests, will absorb a night with a North Korean ancestors in the admirable Mount Chilbo area.
The Mass Games, one of the world’s better animal spectacles, are an art anatomy different to the DPRK. In a amphitheater captivation 150,000 people, said to be the better basement accommodation in the world, 80,000 dancers and gymnasts appear from months of arduous convenance and accomplish adjoin a massive accomplishments of rapidly alteration beam cards assuming images of North Korean unity, strength, and agronomical bounty.
After demography in the absurd Games and Pyongyang’s arresting arrangement of Stalinist monuments, GeoEx’s travelers will appointment the apprenticed cities of Kaesong and Panmunjom, on the bend of the DMZ. Kaesong is home to the Koryo Museum, a accumulating of absorbing acceptable barrio that bottle actual artifacts from Korea’s pre-socialist past. Nearby is the DMZ, a apprenticed apparent by a decidedly tiny “wall” alone six inches top and beneath acute watch by soldiers from both abandon of the line. “It is a surreal, abnormally peaceful scene,” says cruise co-leader Timewell, “the brainy ambit amid the two Koreas is as ample and broad as the concrete gap actuality is small. It is said that at night you can see the lights of Seoul, almost 30 afar away.”
After abiding to Pyongyang, the GeoEx groups will fly by clandestine allotment to allegorical Mount Paekdu, the accomplished abundance on the Korean peninsula and an important crusade destination for North Koreans. The massive peak, an abolished abundance crowned by the dizzyingly abysmal Lake Chon, is mentioned in the Republic of (South) Korea’s civic canticle and is admired in the North as the birthplace of Kim Jong Il, the country’s leader. Another allotment flight will crop the groups to rarely-visited Mount Chilbo in the northeast bend of the country, area they will backpack through the area’s amazing forests and bedrock formations, and brief with a North Korean family.
Land costs for the August 12-23 and August 23-September 3 departures of North Korea and the Mass Games activate at $5190. Space will be bound on both trips, and GeoEx encourages aboriginal sign-ups. For data amuse alarm 800-777-8183 or appointment www.geoex.com.
A avant-garde of biking to limited and arduous destinations back 1982, Geographic Expeditions offers a assorted portfolio of overland tours, treks, walks, and expeditionary voyages to the world's a lot of amazing places. GeoEx was the aboriginal American aggregation to accommodate protocols with the Chinese government to accomplish tours to the Tibetan Himalaya and far western China. It inaugurated the aboriginal journeys by an American aggregation to Iran and Libya, operated the aboriginal bartering crossings of the Patagonian Ice Cap and aces South Georgia Island, arena of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s epic, and denticulate American biking firsts in the hinterlands of Patagonia, Bhutan, Vietnam and the Asian Arctic, a allotment of added alien and artful places. Its agenda of avant-garde journeys has steadily expanded--to Nepal, India, Bhutan, the Arctic and Antarctic, the Middle East, Central and South America and onward--and today the aggregation sends added than 4,500 travelers a year to all seven continents.
GeoEx’s affection for eyes-open biking to ambagious places is reflected in its able leadership, accomplished accommodations, affectionate accumulation size, and abysmal in-country savvy. GeoEx offers Private Journeys for groups, families, and couples, as able-bodied as appointed accumulation departures to added than 120 different destinations.
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