Friday, January 14, 2011

Foreigners Can Now Visit North Korea's Bunkers .... On The Golf Course That Is

Lupine Travel, a British tour agency, and CYTS, a Chinese tour agency, are currently selling the five-day North Korean golf tour package to foreigners

At Last North Korea Invites Foreigners To Visit Its Bunkers (Not The Nuclear Ones... It's A Five-Day Golf Trip) -- The Daily Mail

* Kim Jong Il is said to have opened course by shooting 'world record 38 under par on his first ever round of golf'. This apparently included eleven holes-in-one

Play golf? Fancy a short break this April?

Well then how about five days golfing on the picturesque shores of Taicheng Lake - in North Korea.

This will be the first ever golf tournament held in the notoriously secretive state which rarely allows foreign visitors and those that are let in are kept a close eye on.

A British and a Chinese travel company have joined forces to sell trips to the North Korean Amateur Golf Open being held at the country's only golf course.

The Pyongyang Golf Complex lies about 16 miles west of the capital, Pyongyang.

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My Comment: Hmmmmm .... it would be interesting to go on such a trip .... and £849 is cheap.

2 comments:

Mark said...

holy smokes! £849? Man I might go!
what about you? Am surprised you haven´t booked tickets yet :D

Mark said...

oh wait.. is this one of them "pay to be a potential hostage" deals? :)