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Hi there
I'm stopping off in Seoul for 6 days late april/early may, before heading to the United States. 1 thing i have always wanted to do is a DMZ tour.
Can someone be able to give me some website of tours that depart seoul. Or do i have to goto Panmunjom for it
DO any tour do Hotel pick up or do i have to get myself to a certain meeting point for check in
The USO website has some info on the tour: http://affiliates.uso.org/Korea/default.cfm?contentid=347
In addition to the USO tour here is a link to all the agencies/websites that provide DMZ tours in Korea:
http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/inkorea.kto?cmd=list&md=enu&lang_se=ENG
This link is helpful to you also:
http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/inkorea.kto?cmd=list&md=enu&lang_se=ENG
We booked out trip through the hotel and they picked us up from the lobby. We booked it the day before.
There are two different types of DMZ tours - not all the tours go right up to the border with North Korea.
As posted above, use the links, they offer nearly all the same tour but a few slight options.
Costs will all be the same roughly speaking, +/- $10.
All tours will have a pick-up downtown, either at your hotel, or at a central site, like the Lotte Hotel for example. Pick-ups are generally about 8am, with a return about 5:30pm depending on traffic.
You will have very little luck doing a self-tour by getting yourself close to the boarder, since nearly all facilities and security checkpoints are geared for the bus tours
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