DMZ, Korea

DMZ

It is often said that the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is the most dangerous place in the world. This is probably because the 4km strip of land that separates the 2 sides of Korea bristles is filled with troops, guard posts, tanks, missile, bunkers, land mines and other tools of destruction.

Mine signs along the journey to DMZ

This is definitely a must place to go. It really is an eye opener of how vast a difference it is between the two countries. To go there, it is only allowed by tour. There are a few things that you can do there. We chose the tour which allowed us to go thru one of the incursion tunnels built secretly by North Korea right to the border of South Korea which was recently discovered. The tunnel is about 5ft height at the most. So if you are taller than that, there will definitely be a lot of bending to do and knocking on the head! You must be wondering what head knocking I’m talking about. Not gonna tell you about it. You can discover it when you are there. As you join the tour you will hear extraordinary stories of what the tour guides have to say. It will probably take about half a day. I highly recommend this.

We were not allowed to take any photos when there. However, we were brought to another side of it where we could take pictures from a distant. Here are some of them:

Photo Line - you are not allowed to take any photos after the yellow line

The view of North Korea taken from the yellow line

Messages left by the South Korean soldiers on the fence