take nr. 2: some more pictures.

drying corn (yellow stuff) and peppers (red stuff)

workers doing something with the corn

construction

market somewhere on the way to Dandong

washing clothes in the river, in a fairly big town -> no water tab?

more little private stands, scattered all over

Dandong (China), seen from North Korea

Sinujiu, with a poster of the “100 Day Campaign” to make the extra effort, followed immediatly by another 150 Day Campaign to inspire another great effort. NK isn’t doing well.

By the way, here’s a light smog map of north korea I found in google, or what China let me find through Google. The map is inverted. You’ll see Beijing and Seoul clearly.

Dandong -> Pyongyang: no comments

Sinujiu

harvest

mixing cement for a new road

more harvest

beautiful north Korean landscape – North Korea’s Landscapes are despite that bad things happening in them, awesomely beautiful. Can’t wait of NK to open.

breaking radio silence: Dandong and back.

I haven’t been updating my blog for a few days now. There was simply no time. Among other things, I travelled back to Dandong for a night and got bombarded again with just too many impressions. I could capture some on pictures, but most of them I just had take in. So here are some of the thoughts, that came to me:
I like traditional Korean houses much more than Chinese Houses. They are not build with predominant “kitsch”, but sleeker and simpler.

People are being ordered to do anything and everything. Today, they’re road workers, tomorrow, they’ll be farmers and yesterday, they were roof workers. And if there isn’t anything to do, they collect the little they can grow, prepare it, carry it somewhere and sell it to passers by. Mostly old people. Either cigarettes or snacks. And I saw it all over: In Pyongyang or on my way to Dandong.

Arriving in Dandong, I enjoyed this 700000 people city, bustling with life, took a room in a hotel, got a great view of the mountain range. All those lights, freedom of movement, capitalism, more lights and that typical background noise of a big city.

Just thankful to be back again.