Fantastische DMZ-TOUR met exclusieve ontmoeting met Noord-Koreaanse overlopers

What a great experience ! Being interested in world politics and now travelli g to 68th country, always wanted to see the progress made by South Korea and the weired news and caricature of North Korea across the border. Seeing North Korea through bare eyes as well as through Binoculars, it felt nostalgic and exciting. South Koreanhas progressed to a fairly high level and life seemed good,stylishand lovely. South Koreans are obsessed with the North although to extreme negatavisim, wanting reunification. Coming from India and similarly obseesed with Pakistan primarily due terrorism and having seen reunifixation of 2 Germans, really do wish and pray for united democratic Korea. The passage and walking through the 2nd tunnel dug by North was exciting though tough for the age.

The guide was knowledgeable But the conditions not ideal (car, schedule, etc) Unfortunately the CJA was closed but this was not them fault

Pickup time changed the night before departure, fortunately I was checking my email and came across it. The tour includes a stop at the gondola for about an hour for us to explore but we weren't told if we were able to have enough time to ride the gondola, if that's an option for us I would probably have gone on it but it wasn't communicated to us. Upon going through the checkpoint I got yelled by another tour guide who joined at the rest stop, I wasn't filming anything sensitive but this should be communicated to us about what is and isn't allowed, as other passengers were filming I was afraid to do so as I wasn't sure what I could or could not be filming, which is a huge loss for me as I need as many footage as possible to provide the content to my viewers as it is my job. After speaking to the guide who told me not to film, I was informed by her that filming on the bus is generally not allowed but then after she spoke to our guide and he explained the rule about filming, he said only military personnel, equipment and buildings which are of sensitive nature but that's the official rule, the unofficial rule is that we can do as we like given we are tourists. This is a very mixed message and the tour company should come to a consensus about this so that it is conveyed to all customers equally given the sensitivity and active military activity in the area. We ended up making a stop towards the end at a ginseng "museum" as they worded it but the whole time it sounded like a sales pitch and the building was just a random office building so a little transparency and honesty would have been appreciated, it is an open secret that tour companies do these shopping stops to share revenue with the particular business. Fortunately we were not forced to purchase any products and I couldn't afford it either way.