Dancers from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea perform during the opening ceremony of the 2012 China-DPRK Economic, Trade, Cultural and Tourism Expo in Dandong, Northeast China's Liaoning province, Oct 12, 2012. [Photo/Xinhua]

Itinerary

A typical four-day tour of the DPRK costing 2,000 yuan ($451)

Day 1

Go through the Dandong Customs. The train from Dandong to Pyongyang departs at 10 am. After crossing the China-DPRK Friendship Bridge, the train arrives at the border city of Sinuiju in the DPRK. At Sinuiju, the train stops for about two hours to go through the DPRK entry procedures, and then leaves for Pyongyang. Arrival time is expected to be 7 pm. Visitors meet the guides from the DPRK at the Pyongyang station and are then escorted to the Yanggakdo International Hotel.

Day 2

The journey by car to Keason, the ancient capital of the Koryo Dynasty, takes about two and a half hours. Then there are visits to the DMZ/Panmunjom military demarcation line between the North and South, and the meeting hall where the truce negotiations were held and the armistice was signed in 1953; Koryo History Museum — the highest educational organ of the Koryo Dynasty.

Back to Pyongyang: Mansudae Grand Monument; Mangyongdae Native House, the birthplace of the late leader Kim Il-sung; take a ride with local people in the world's deepest metro; visit the Tower of the Juche Idea, and the Monument to the Founding of the Party.

Day 3

It takes about two and half hours by road to reach Mount Myohang, one of the most beautiful natural scenes on the Korean Peninsula; International Friendship Exhibition Center and the Pohyon Temple, an 11th century Buddhist temple. Back to Pyongyang: Visit a local middle school and watch performances by students; Arch of Triumph; China-Korea Friendship Tower — in memory of the Chinese Volunteers who fought in the Korean War (1950-53).

Day 4

Visit to Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyang.

Train departs Pyongyang at 10:40 am and arrives in Dandong at about 16:30 pm.