Visiting the Korean Demilitarized Zone
On Sunday, Andrie and I took a trip out the the DMZ with North Korea. Unfortunately the JSA was closed that day, so we didn’t get to see any North Korean Soldiers up close.
It’s still a very weird place. Driving up to it the river Imjin straddles the highway. Since it flows from North Korea, they’ve fenced it off halfway to Seoul and there are armed guard towers every few hundred metres. Once you get to the outskirts of the DMZ you have to switch to a special tour bus. Photography going forward is extremely limited. I was only allowed to take pictures from specific approved areas. Driving to our first stop, you have to go through a checkpoint where South Korean soldiers come on and check all the passports of the tourists. After this the bus goes on a bridge and zig-zag around barriers.