In people's minds, North Korea is a very poor country, the country is still using bicycles as the main means of transportation, and people are dressed very plainly. On the Internet, people can occasionally see the appearance of the DPRK as a country, which is obviously backward compared with the mainland, and the urban appearance of the DPRK is similar to that of the mainland forty or fifty years ago. At present, North Korea is threatened by Western countries, which can only give priority to the development of the military, and people's living standards are generally low.
Nowadays, the mainland has been in line with international standards, and the mainland has a very high status in the world, but the neighboring North Korea is still very backward, and north Korea is even more isolated from the world after the global epidemic outbreak. There have always been many rumors on the Internet about North Korea, in addition to being backward and of course mysterious.
How much does it cost to travel to North Korea? Is this country worth going?
I have loved to travel since I was a child, and some time ago I finally had the opportunity to visit North Korea, and after this trip, I have a new view of North Korea. North Korea is not as unbearable as the outside world thinks, and the trip cost less than 5,000 yuan in total.
The author arrived in North Korea by train, and there were only a few elderly people on the train, indicating that the enthusiasm of young people on the mainland to travel to North Korea is not high, before the author thought that North Korea tourism is very hot, but this is not the case. Compared with the mainland, North Korea is so backward, it is not so convenient to travel to the country to eat, wear, live and travel, and young people like to travel to developed countries in the West, after all, it is more free.
It is not realistic to travel to North Korea alone, and this time I also set off with my colleagues to Pyongyang, where we stayed for a week. At that time, the author and colleagues set off from Dandong, Liaoning Province, and took a relatively backward green car, which has been eliminated by the mainland.
Before getting on the bus, the flight attendants checked us strictly, and we could see that they were very careful, and even the books brought by the author were carefully read by them. The tour guide was a North Korean girl who looked good but Chinese said it badly, and after getting on the train, the tour guide told us what to pay attention to when we arrived in Pyongyang.
Before going to Pyongyang, the travel agency had already planned the route for us, and the tour guide told us not to walk around alone when we got there, and we could not talk to pedestrians on the road, let alone take pictures with the camera. North Korea is still very friendly to mainland tourists, and the author went to North Korea to experience the local customs and customs, and did not pay too much attention to the country's political problems.
It can be seen that North Korea is still very wary of tourists, and they are afraid that tourists will expose their country's information to the outside world. North Korea is currently very isolated, and all industries in their country are lagging behind. North Korea's leaders use funds to build military weapons, and the people's low quality of life is also a last resort, after all, western countries are eyeing North Korea, and they must always maintain a defensive state.
The green-skinned train was slow, walking for 8 hours to reach Pyongyang, when my colleagues and I were physically and mentally exhausted. The first thing that catches your eye after getting off the bus is the China-NORTH Korea Friendship Bridge, which played an important role in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, through which the People's Liberation Army delivered supplies and military weapons to the front line.
There was also a veteran who came to Korea with us, this veteran participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and after getting off the train, the veteran's eyes instantly became moist, and he seemed to have traveled back to the era of heavy artillery fire. I have great respect for these veterans, who almost paid for world peace, and presumably this old man went to Pyongyang to recall the past.
Pyongyang's network signal is very poor, and the author wanted to secretly take photos and upload them to social software and found that it was not feasible at all. The tour guide said that there was no wireless network on the street, and there would be a network in the hotel, and the author did have some breakdown at that time.
North Korea's communication costs are very expensive, foreigners in North Korea as far as possible to turn off the phone, not to mention before getting on the bus tour guide has explained that you can not casually take pictures and make calls. North Korea's surveillance of the Internet is very strict, and the masses rarely have access to the Internet.
Over the next few days, I and my colleagues visited some of North Korea's famous attractions, which are free of charge, and visitors are not allowed to leave the queue without permission during this period. The author thinks that these attractions in North Korea are bland and there is really nothing to see. North Korea also has KTV and other entertainment facilities, but the playlists of KTV are all from the mainland in the 80s and 90s, and the author as a post-90s generation can not sing at all. In addition, tourists must also go to the designated shop to buy things, in short, life is very inconvenient.
The price of food and daily necessities in North Korea is almost the same as that of the mainland, and some food is imported, such as hamburgers and sprites, which are very expensive and the average civilian cannot afford to eat.
Although North Korea is poor, the happiness of its citizens is relatively high, and north Korean teenagers do not have to spend money to go to school, and young people do not have to spend high prices to buy houses after marriage. This trip to North Korea has a new experience, the country is indeed relatively backward, and I do not plan to go again in the future.