Из Вены в Пхеньян

[allocco]

(via anton_nazarov)

Рассказ о путешествии из Вены в Пхеньян на поезде (через Россию): http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com

Сейчас этот поезд уже не ходит. Попасть в Северную Корею на поезде можно только через Китай (и это очень нетривиально).

Comments

[hazel-conway.livejournal.com]

жаль, что не ходит. вот это путешествие!

[poly-sonic.livejournal.com]

Супер ребята прокатились!

Я только не поняла. Как им это удалось? они пишут
"This route was open for tourist traffic only untill about 1994. It's likely that we were the first tourists who travelled this line since then."
Так этот поезд ходит сейчас или нет? Что вообще значит эта фраза?

[poly-sonic.livejournal.com]

И конечно потрясает количество фотографий железнодорожной зоны. Я считаю, что им просто очень повезло:

"While we were taking photos, two policemen approached us. However, they just wanted to see my passport and asked what we were doing here. I explained that we are going to Korea and that we are railway employees in Europe and are just interested in the railway in Russia. I asked whether it's forbidden to take photos here, the answer was no, they were just interested why we take photos. So, everything was OK, and the two friendly policemen went away."
Мой опыт в таких вещах куда более печален :)

А вот. Еще вот это очень понравилось:

And of course the mobile-phones were of special interest, as they are forbidden in North Korea. The "translator" said, that they would be sealed and that we must open the envelope only when we leave the country. The sealing was quite simple: The customs official asked me for some of paper (obviously they didn't have their own...) and I gave him two empty DIN-A4-sheets, in which he enwraped the mobile phones and which he closed with a yellow tape, which he then stamped several times...