
• PHOTO: Members of a previous Far Horizons tour group prepare to lay a wreath at the statue of the late Kim II Sung.
A genuinely out-of-the-ordinary 22-day tour in May 2008 with Far Horizons will embrace such diversely interesting places as Panmunjom on the ceasefire line of the Korean War, cobblestoned streets in Manchuria and the Siberian Tiger Park, and a boat ride to the historic military fortresses of Amursky Bay in East Russia’s Vladivostok.
The tour by road, rail and air also includes ascending Korea’s highest peak, the snow-capped Mt Paekdu and viewing its huge crater lake, descending 100m underground by the world’s longest escalator for a ride on Pyongyang’s underground Metro, Korea’s Gyeongbok Palace built in 1395, ancient tombs and grottos, a unique 'underground forest' in Manchuria, and a private meeting in Vladivostok with the founders of the famous Amur Tiger Reserve.
It ends with a highlight tour of the six-storey high International Friendship Exhibition Hall on North Korea’s Mt Myohyang that’s been dubbed 'the world’s largest treasure house' for its 70,000 gifts given by 160 world leaders to the late Kim Il Sung and his son Kim Jong Il and displayed in over 100 rooms.
The tour includes return air and taxes, transfers, twin-share hotels, all meals, gratuities sightseeing, excursions and entries, and services of a Far Horizons tour escort and local guides; it is priced from $18,750pp ex-Sydney.
For more details and prices ex-other capitals phone 1800 083 141; detailed itineraries re available on www.farhorizons.com.au (click on the headline above this post to reach this site).
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