Statues, Universities and Food Poisoning!
The following day we were up early again to visit the square
where the two giant statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il stand. We had to pay
our respects to the two leaders and bow at their statues, this is a must on any DPRK trip, if you dont
want to bow, I believe you have to stay in the coach, but this is considered
very rude in the DPRK. The statues were very impressive and grand in size.

Later that afternoon we got to ride on the Pyongyang
underground which uses the old Berlin trains and its also the deepest
underground in the world! Its also used for shelter should an attack occur. We
got to ride twice on the metro and this was a great experience, each carriage
had pictures of the leaders on them. The last stop took us to the Arc of
Triumph which is a replica of the one in Paris and they even make a point of
saying its bigger! The view form the top was very nice and we saw a lot of the
city, although this day there was a light mist.
By the evening we were supposed to do a pub crawl in
Pyongyang however due to food poisoning there were quite a few from our group
not feeling well so we halved the bars we were going to see and rested
beforehand. We played some bowling in a massive bowling alley and then went
onto some more bars, we did not have a big night out though in the end. One of
the guys on our group was really rude to the guides and said that its St
Patrick's day in Ireland that the pub we were in was crap and it wasn't like St
Patrick's day at all!! our guide could not have been any better, she was very
organised and helpful and always tried to accommodate whatever she could.
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