I don't know why we thought it would be exciting to get as close to evil North Korea as we could, but we did and it was.
We were told you have to take a tour to get into the DMZ, so we arranged one from Seoul. It turns out that's only partially true. To go into the actual DMZ, you do have to take a military sanctioned tour, but you can get one right at the border.
Our tour took us to a few places outside the DMZ prior to the military tour. Including this suspension bridge.
While in the DMZ you visit a tunnel dug by North Korea in an attempt to invade, and an observatory where you can actually look into North Korea, and a small farming village that was allowed to be built there with the help of the South Korean government.
Most of the areas that we visited, we were not allowed to take pictures.Leia mais