Road trips to North Korea to be offered from Dandong border city next month
New package 'will have more destinations' than road trip offered to Rason in Jilin province, official says
The Chinese border city of Dandong will open its first route for road trips to North Korea next month, as a tourism official hinted that the itinerary will be more diverse.
You Zejun, chief of the Dandong tourism bureau in Liaoning province, said the new package for mainland tourists in June would be different from another road-trip route starting in Jilin province, as Dandong’s would feature “many other attractions”, some of which have never been open to tourists before, according to Xinhua.
The first route was approved three years ago and starts in Jilin’s Hunchun city. But it only allows visits to the Rason free economic zone and its seaside areas, in northeastern North Korea.
Rason is open to both Western and mainland tourists. Groups are typically shown around factories, markets, seafood restaurants and unspoilt beaches. Rason’s Emperor Resort & Casino has been a particular favourite for hundreds of thousands of mainlanders.
We don’t expect customers will be fond of this trip, because there won’t be any freedom. North Korea for sure will assign someone to travel with them
You, however, did not specify the new destinations on the new route from Dandong.