Koryo Tours is proud to present for the second year running our totally unique and revolutionary tour to the Magadan region of Russia; the far North east and a place almost never visited by tourists – abandoned towns and an amazingly well preserved ghost city visited for the first time by tourists in 2011, camping [...]

May Day in North Korea is a public holiday and one of the few days where you where you can take on the locals at a tug-of-war or just wander unaccompanied through the crowds for a few hours, the best chance to mingle with mysterious Pyongyangers! In addition to the usual holiday events the Koreans [...]

Simon has just returned from a 4 week trip through Russia where he explored the little-visited area of Magadan – he will be posting his experiences and pictures from the trip very soon so stay tuned.

Even among the select travellers who have ventured into North Korea, Rajin-Sonbong (Rason) remains a mystery…a remote area (even by DPRK standards) that shares a northern border with China and Russia and not possible to enter from North Korea proper. Rason sees almost no tourists at all (literally not one western tourist in 2009!) but [...]