With the boom of travel abroad in china in recent years, more and more people have chosen to come to North Korea to play, but north Korea's travel route is relatively single, you can only see what they want you to see, the real situation in some rural areas is little known, and even if you come to the countryside by chance, you can't keep the photos you take, and north Korea's secrecy work has always been very strong.
This trip to Korea, from north to south by rail to Pyongyang, due to the Korean problems at that time, when we stopped at the Douman River, we did not choose to continue south to Pyongyang, which gave us the opportunity to stop at the Doo Man River for a day, and only the next day followed the local soldiers to take away the Doo Man River. However, during this day, I also had the opportunity to get close to the real countryside of North Korea, and there was no tour guide to follow on this day, and there was no supervision and restraint of official personnel.
In the actual contact, the living conditions of the Douman River are still relatively hard, here is not as noisy as the big city, but the environment is really beautiful, the cornfield on the riverbank, a piece of emerald green, standing here looking out into the distance, opposite is our motherland, the air is mixed with the fragrance of the soil, let people feel relaxed, the authentic rural appearance, rows of low tile houses, mostly wooden structures, summer is good, I don't know if the winter will be very cold, after all, here winter is colder than the northeast.
Wandering around in this town, we came here to the largest shopping mall, said to be a shopping mall, in fact, it is the appearance of our side of the small shop, all kinds of goods piled up on one side, there are slippers, there are clothes, many daily necessities are marked with Chinese, it is not difficult to imagine, these goods are coming to our country, there are some local food categories, including some colorful soda, a kind of cottage Coke look.
When we were eating at the local restaurant, we bought a bottle of this cola that they produced, and it tasted a bit like a sugar water drink with a lot of flavor, which I drank when I was a child. We often see rumors on the Internet that there is a perennial famine in the countryside of North Korea, and people can't eat, but I think many of them are catching the wind and catching shadows, because here, I didn't see those situations, but I saw a lot of goods from China, and some instant noodle foods, indicating that they have this consumption ability in the countryside, if they can't eat, who will buy these snacks?
The farmers here are still more vigilant about us, when we took pictures in the village, they were found by the locals, he saw us taking pictures, comparing us, as if not letting us take pictures, because we could not communicate, we understood and immediately left, may feel that we behaved abnormally, within a few minutes, the uncle led the town management to find us, after checking our mobile phones, saw that there was no bad picture before letting us leave.
It seems that the people here are still very vigilant, just as we saw foreigners in the countryside twenty years ago with mobile phones taking pictures everywhere, most people saw us, they all cast doubtful eyes, there are some enthusiastic residents smile at us, at the Doumanjiang station, met a salesman, is a beautiful girl of about twenty years old, she can use Chinese to communicate with us, she said that her Chinese are in school, which surprised me, it turns out that the school here will have Chinese and English elective courses.
When chatting, she learned that we were here to travel, she said that if there is a chance she also wants to go out to see, enthusiastic and optimistic and her cute appearance, left a deep impression on us, at this time I opened my mobile phone, let her see some photos I took in the country, the bustling appearance of the attractions around the country made her very amazed, called here is really beautiful, it can be seen that she is also eager to understand the outside world, full of curiosity about the outside world, I told her to work and study well, the future will have the opportunity to leave home.
North Korea is not an open country, especially the people in the town, for foreign tourists are full of curiosity and vigilance, the local people mostly do not speak the language, rarely will directly communicate with foreigners, if there is a chance, they are still very willing to communicate with us, willing to further contact and understand us, such as the North Korean girl, his optimism touched me, when I left, I gave her the snacks I carried with me, and expressed my friendship.
The pastoral life of the local people makes me very envious, most of them rely on farming, sunrise, their hard work, it looks no different from our farmers, a group of lovely children playing by the river, just like when we were young, they saw the train passing by and waving at the train, the simplicity of the people here is the same as our last century, a different kind of pastoral time, a different way of life, I can see their optimistic and free, vigorous appearance can't help but make people yearn.