Ryugyong Hotel Pyongyang

... , a granite obelisk 170 m tall, with a ruby torch on top, may well be the tallest accessible structure in Pyongyang. Because the Ryugyong hotel is off-bounds to visitors. Foreigners in particular. The tower is located on the other side of the Daedong ...

... . To my left, on the other side of the river, almost hidden by the hotel wall, I could make out the famous, pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel, still unfinished and vying to one day - if that day ever comes - become the tallest hotel in the world. And that was ...

... upon which North Korea's economy was based. This is exemplified in the form of my favourite building in Pyongyang, the amazing Ryugyong Hotel, a veritable mountain of a building - literally, it was designed to look like a pyramidal, stylised mountain ...

... , I found it genuinely fascinating. - The last stop today is an opportunity to take a close-up photograph of the Ryugyong hotel. A pyramid shaped building that would have been the world's tallest and largest hotel had it been completed, but after the ...