North Korea tour last week

leaskovski · 14 Sep 2016 at 11:59

MickeyFinns said:
The odd places get addictive! Second trip to Turkmenistan in a week.

Are you loaded? How do you afford all these trips?

byeo · 14 Sep 2016 at 12:04

MickeyFinns said:
The odd places get addictive! Second trip to Turkmenistan in a week.

When will we see the Syrian trip report ?

tom_e · 14 Sep 2016 at 12:04

leaskovski said:
Are you loaded? How do you afford all these trips?

I imagine a lot of it is through his work which organise trips to these weird and wonderful places.

diamount · 14 Sep 2016 at 12:07

leaskovski said:
Are you loaded? How do you afford all these trips?

I'd imagine it's very simple. Savings.

MickeyFinns · 14 Sep 2016 at 12:14

leaskovski said:
Are you loaded? How do you afford all these trips?

I work for an agency running tours to unusual places

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MickeyFinns · 14 Sep 2016 at 12:18

diamount said:
I'd like to go but I couldn't in good conscious fund that regime.

That's fair enough although tourism is a tiny portion of their hard currency generating exports. If you want to halt their funding then campaign against China buying their coal and anthracite

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bledd · 14 Sep 2016 at 12:22

Next month : Slough

leaskovski · 14 Sep 2016 at 12:24

So you get paid for it... good work. How on earth did you get in to that stage, was it from doing trips funded by yourself, and then getting the role because of experience?

Cool job!

Robi · 14 Sep 2016 at 12:40

Have you visited one of the many death/extermination/labour camps yet?

MickeyFinns · 14 Sep 2016 at 12:56

leaskovski said:
So you get paid for it... good work. How on earth did you get in to that stage, was it from doing trips funded by yourself, and then getting the role because of experience?

Cool job!

More or less yeah. After going to NK as a tourist I ended up becoming a travel buddy of the owner and it snowballed from their. Knowledge from doing things like my bike trip helped

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MickeyFinns · 14 Sep 2016 at 12:57

bledd said:
Next month : Slough

I live near slough, not all that bad to be fair!

diamount · 14 Sep 2016 at 12:58

MickeyFinns said:
That's fair enough although tourism is a tiny portion of their hard currency generating exports. If you want to halt their funding then campaign against China buying their coal and anthracite .

That's true, but if even a penny helps him stay in power then it's best if I withheld it.

riddler · 14 Sep 2016 at 13:10

Interesting stuff, thanks for the insight!

Glaucus · 14 Sep 2016 at 13:17

diamount said:
I'd like to go but I couldn't in good conscious fund that regime.

i never understand this, your money is insignificant. the experience of a different culture is far more valuable, if no one went, no one would know what the country is like. locals would never see anything different.

whats the agency?
you going to hells door when in Turkmenistan? so wont to visit that place, well in fact g everywhere.

MickeyFinns · 14 Sep 2016 at 13:23

Glaucus said:
i never understand this, your money is insignificant. the experience of a different culture is far more valuable, if no one went, no one would know what the country is like. locals would never see anything different.

whats the agency?
you going to hells door when in Turkmenistan? so wont to visit that place, well in fact g everywhere.

Yeah going to hells gate. Its a whistle stop two week tour of the five central Asian stans.

Google lupine travel and you'll find us. Can a mod delete this line if it is a problem?

englishpremier · 14 Sep 2016 at 13:23

MickeyFinns said:
Anyway I just thought I'd offer to answer any questions anyone had about North Korea whilst I'm at it!

Is North Korea best Korea?

Sounds like fun, and I'd love to visit, but I hate organised tours, so don't think I'd enjoy being chaperoned.

Is the tour group allowed out at night for meals drinks etc.. or is it all meals in the hotel? On that same subject, how's the food?

Glaucus · 14 Sep 2016 at 13:25

MickeyFinns said:
Yeah going to hells gate. Its a whistle stop two week tour of the five central Asian stans.

Google lupine travel and you'll find us. Can a mod delete this line if it is a problem?

cool, can you camp overnight at hells gate? that would be awesome, shall have a look through the tours.

never mind, yes you can and one of your tours does exactly that.

shame, i've got no annual leave left next year.

Tosno · 14 Sep 2016 at 13:30

Is it possible to meet North Korean girls (not paid whores) without a guide hovering around?

MickeyFinns · 14 Sep 2016 at 13:40

englishpremier said:
Is North Korea best Korea?

Sounds like fun, and I'd love to visit, but I hate organised tours, so don't think I'd enjoy being chaperoned.

Is the tour group allowed out at night for meals drinks etc.. or is it all meals in the hotel? On that same subject, how's the food?

I actually prefer the food in the north to the south.

We go out with the guides at night. We were out at a beer festival and also the circus this week. We go for dinner in different restaurants in Pyongyang each night.

MickeyFinns · 14 Sep 2016 at 13:41

Glaucus said:
cool, can you camp overnight at hells gate? that would be awesome, shall have a look through the tours.

never mind, yes you can and one of your tours does exactly that.

shame, i've got no annual leave left next year.

Yeah I'll be camping there next week

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