The Bumbling Bug

Ryugyong Hotel - Pyongyang, North Korea  by  markpanama , on Flickr For around £2000 you can get an all-inclusive 8 day trip, where you will visit museums, art studios, water parks and zoos. You'll get to see mass games and mass street dancing, and visit some incredible sites such as waterfalls and palaces. Sounds pretty good? What if I told you this was all in North Korea? Would you still be interested? Well, every day more and more people are visiting the country, with North Korea aiming to get their annual tourist numbers up to 1 million within the next decade. My question to you is this. Should we be fuelling the North Korean tourism industry or not? In order to answer this question you should first know a few things about the country itself. (DISCLAIMER: I am not an expert on this topic. To the best of my knowledge this information is correct, but I cannot claim that there will be no inaccuracies.) North Korea: 1860-Today Since the 1860's North Korean his...

First of all I'd like to say - welcome to my blog! I want to invite you on my adventures as I document my travels and discoveries. I recently went on a spontaneous weekend trip to Copenhagen with one of my good friends. Now before I go further, Copenhagen is a beautiful city and I thoroughly enjoyed my trip. BUT... I was firmly reminded of some of the limitations of travelling. As I set off at 7:15am, I was buzzed to be venturing abroad for the first time in over a year, and as we flew over the English Channel I felt so at peace. I had a moment of realisation that for me, being above the clouds, being free, is the most important thing in life. All I want to do is see the world. And then we arrived. Whilst everything I just said remained true for the entire trip, I did lose a little of that starry eyed wonder as I remembered that I am a human, who can't quite handle getting up at 3am after 24 hours trying to take in a whole city without feeling exceptionally rough. Not to...