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Chonsangri Cooperative Farm - Vegetables
Willettsworld Says: After visiting the 'museum' part of the farm, we went outside and were shown around some glasshouses and small plots of land growing vegetables and fruit.
Chonsangri Cooperative Farm - Kim Il Sung's visits
Willettsworld Says: This wall shows all the dates that Kim Il Sung visited this farm - 89 times in total to offer his special 'expertise'. We asked the guide, who was showing us around, what valuable contribution had he made but we didn't really get a straight answer back.
Willettsworld Says: On our way back to Pyongyang from Nampo, we stopped off at this cooperative farm but is more like a museum than a farm. We were met by another guide who showed us round a large building full of photos of Kim Il Sung's visits here and on other farms. There are even some...
Willettsworld Says: These are some photo's I took from the bus when we drove through Nampo City after visiting the West Sea Barrage. It's a pretty drab looking place made even more so by the rain. We didn't stop in the city at all but I don't think we really missed much.
West Sea Barrage Visitor's Centre
Willettsworld Says: When we visited the West Sea Barrage, we first went to the Visitor's Centre which is located on top of a small islet called Pi Islet. Inside we watched a short film about its construction which began in 1981 and the film started in black and white before turning to colour...
Willettsworld Says: This is probably the only sensible project to have been built under the 'Kim' regime. The West Sea Barrage is located 15km (9 miles) west of the city of Nampo and was built from 1981 to 1986. It is a huge, eight-kilometre-long system of dams, three lock chambers, and 36...
Willettsworld Says: These are some photo's I took of the country houses in the surrounding countryside around Nampo City as we made our way to the West Sea Barrage. Some are very simply whilst others are quite large with large windows at the front. More photo's can be found in one of my...
Willettsworld Says: These are some photo's I took of the surrounding countryside around Nampo City as we made our way to the West Sea Barrage. Lots of people were working in the rice paddy fields and other farmland where most of the work is done by hand. It was good to see some of the rural...
Willettsworld Says: This is the 10-lane 42km Youth Hero Highway that runs between Pyongyang and Nampo with, of course, not much in the way of vehicles using it. I'm sure it was built to double as an emergency runway. It was built in the year 2000 by, as some reports I've read state, 50,000...
Ryonggang hot spring house: Former DPRK officals holiday resort
Willettsworld Says: We arrived here in the dark but were still able to make out the guards carrying riffles at a checkpoint at the entrance. We then drove to a large building with the words "Service Centre" on a sign above 2 large doors. Our guide got off the bus and collected our keys and told...
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We ate where we stayed at the Ryonggang hot spring house which is some way outside Nampo City itself. We had, again, plenty of good food washed down with beer, water and even cider. Cider was even served at breakfast! There are also large fridges in the restaurant that contained such luxuries as cans and bottles of coca-cola, Twix, bounty and kit-kat bars that we just hadn't seen anywhere else!
Written Sep 9, 2008
Nampo - North Korea's industrial port
Nampo is a large industrial port city located about 50km south-west of Pyongyang at the mouth of the Taedong River. It was little more than a small fishing village but opened as a port for foreign...
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