Crowne Plaza Hotel Dandong
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Riding the Rails to Dandong
... van driver (van from the boardwalk to where we had the boat ride which was at least half an hour out of the city) then took us to a small restaurant where we had carp that we picked out of a live tank and a few other dishes that Christa picked out. On the way back to Dandong, we stopped at a portion of the Great Wall just to take pictures. We also went to the Korean War Museum - where we saw "the other side of the story"! I don't know a lot about the Korean War, but ...
The Great Wall at last
... when it came to building steps. They go from three inches tall to around two feet tall. There were a few sections where I relied on my arms pulling me up by the railings as much as on my legs hoisting me up the steps.
After leaving the wall we fittingly had another large meal at a Korean restaurant. We then headed back home to Dalian, away from border patrols and ancient wall.
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Dandong... or a tale of Borders and Walls
... border. For a moment I thought that for all I knew, someone could be pulling my leg and say that some random stretch of land was Korea,when in fact it was still part of the vastness of China. It is such a strange sensation to look across a thin stretch of river and know that I am looking at the forbidden zone of North Korea. A location that until a few months ago it had never even crossed my mind that I might see.
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Borderline
... before turning back. I met back up with Denise and some other friends that I hadn't yet met, and we headed to a restaurant for a great dinner of Kung Pao and the crispiest, most delicious sweet and sour pork I've ever had. The others had to get going, so I went back to the river for a nighttime walk. The area was beautifully lit up, with young people playing various games and older people dancing to swing music. I walked further down to the bridge that connects China and ...
I looked at North Korea!
... we 'conquered' it!
and North Koreans who accept bribes from tourists are not killed, but 'cleared'.
Our first stop on the trip, both on Friday night and Monday morning was at a bridge. Well, half a bridge. This was a bridge destroyed during the war.You can walk to the end of it and look at the opposite river bank to see North Korean soldiers walking around with guns and fishermen walking along the shore. There is also a view of a ferris wheel and ...
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