Day 2 - a) Pyongyang to Mt Baekdu

Sunday September 5, 2010

We returned late from the Mass Games on Saturday night but there was no time for a sleep in! We packed our bags, had breakfast and left the Yanggakdo Hotel at 7:15am on the Sunday morning to catch our Air Koryo charter flight to Mt Baekdu.

During that drive to the airport Mr Lee announced that taking pictures from the bus within Pyongyang was fine. I found out later that this was a privilege not granted to Group A. In fact it became apparent that Group A was on a shorter leash than us during the trip (they had all the Americans after all). Here is my first recording of Pyongyang streets, on a quiet Sunday morning:

At the airport we had some time to browse the souvenirs on sale at the departure lounge before boarding a flight that was exclusively chartered by our Koryo Tours group. As such we were permitted to sit anywhere so Tim and I grabbed a couple of business class seats to fly in comfort.