A travel diary
Wed Sept 29th, 2010 - Thurs Oct 7th, 2010
Written by Robin unruly
for www.rebellogblog.com / dev
(朝鲜民主主义人民共和国)
Nordkorea - Tag 2 - Part 2
I get some nasty emails from my loved ones and even here in the comment section, one wonders on my report from North Korea. As if I had been about "turned around". This once again clearly: Please read my basic observations in this article, and additions are here. I write everything as we have experienced it. Also, I do not want to hurt our very nice tour guides. So I will precede this paragraph each time, to avoid any misunderstandings.
the way, I notice here in the hostel, that people have difficulty reading longer texts. Is there such a tour guide of more than 5 lines many have to cope. Here are all intelligent people, well at least some ...
After the International Friendship Exhibiton it goes back to the Chongchon Hotel, at Mt Myohyang. There's daylight now, we have much to people from a moving car and also an insight into the life of the country and small town population to see. Interesting for me are always sites and designs buildings or houses. There I succeed to make some good photos. After a brilliant lunch we cross the highway back to the capital. doze My family and the guides, well least one of the two, the other is always awake. The driver also - thank God. So do I. Sun photograph I can and like to see everything and make up my mind. Once in the town we drive to the Arc de Triomphe. On the one is very proud, because is you will not believe, 3m higher than the "brother" in Paris. It started to rain lightly, but I cross the street, not like what you see normally, despite the low or "do-not-fast." traffic. Into it can not, it will be renovating the Juche Tower is being renovated, the Opera performs for the party, the Symphony Orchestra as well. Everything is closed. But that does not disturb us, a.) there are enough other things to see and b.) we of course understand that preparing a whole country to such an outstanding event.
So we drive to our hotel in Pyongyang, eat dinner and then it goes to the event at all. Then we were happy for weeks, but now it is: We will see the Arirang Festival 2010th The find in the 1st May stadium and I must say, the stadium is already impressive. A complex, interesting architecture, large arches spanning the station, whose stands are all covered. This one has not spilled, here was padded. The stadium would also redound to the glory of any Western capital. It is spotless and the access and exit routes are well spent. Before the spray station color illuminated fountains and music sounds. Then it goes in, we have very good seats, right in the middle, the VIP's sit not much better. Incidentally, we must pay the extra tickets, of course, they are not included in the tour price. For what we have now given the price of 100 € per person is ok, there are also cheaper and then some for 300 €.
I have my 2 cameras and almost all lenses and my son is Overview of the photos and I can Zooming with the 200 mm, 400mm and the details and where I interesting. Flashes, we have not, but we take a higher ISO, so it's really neat. The stadium is finally filled on our page that rounds remain free and the comparison is restricted to a width of the actors. The Arirangspiele have about 100 000 participants, tens of thousands of them are sitting with interchangeable colored panels folding over.
Then it begins. With synchronized stomping, noisy valves of the panels and staccato call is offered to spectators an incredible spectacle. It is absolutely intoxicating. For the first time I experience, because I lack experience in sports stadiums lack of interest, such as staged calculus can move people. While this may keep the whole show 30000-40000 Children and young people up their tables and create your stadium large, oversized pictures and political solutions. Then the show begins, the bottom of the round, with tens of thousands of participants in colorful costumes, an explosion of color and light. An ever-increasing figure representation, a never before seen such perfect choreography by young people. If I write something, then you can assume that I've seen a lot. But this is hard to beat. Wikipedia says this:
The Arirang festival is a North Korean mass meeting to be held in Rŭngnado-May Day Stadium in Pyongyang and the old Korean folk song Arirang named.
The Arirang Festival shows the history of North Korea by means of mass dances and mass gymnastics and will take place at irregular intervals. At the event, depending on their year with most of over 100,000 people. Are simulated in a precise mass choreography on the lawn both episodes from the revolutionary past, such as the deeds of the two leaders, Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, as well as from the North Korean great view of development of the present. In the stands behind the dance, or gymnastics formations sit tens of thousands of other participants, the trace of individual colored paperboard huge pictures, the effect similar to have a large screen. The Arirang Festival is listed in the Guinness Book of Records since 2007 as the largest event of its kind.
However, it is for our children and us a highlight of the trip. Yes, we have prepared for it, yes we have, in our homeschooling lessons very intense - and also in many conversations - deals with grounding in autocratic states. We have looked in the past and the Olympics analyisert 1936th We have looked at the East German marches, my wife has talked about her youth in the Soviet Union and how it was involved, even with their class in something. We are not naive and not be any innocence on to our children. We make clear that a political system such as the DPRK needs such events, especially inside, as it means people with these games with enthusiasm for political ends. That is why we have made the trip in order to offer practical experience. The whole "fight against right"-speak, the typical holiday clichés in our D-Schland 're on the backside. In any event, if it is then delivers his brain with the Greens or the Left and there is not critical and does not manage to escape the groupthink and forced. That which is done in our schools, but no education to criticism.
So: We enjoy the evening, let us be ashamed carried away, aware of our enthusiasm. But we have in mind why these games are held. But that obscures our joy is not on this evening.
There are also many foreigners there. And dark blue, of course the many tour guides, the men, the women beautiful in their traditional dresses. We conclude with a magnificent fireworks display just above the stadium round. Later, we actually think if we go for several hours again. This speaks for the experience.
Then we drive agitated and in high spirits to the hotel. It follows the usual meetings with our friendly crew and then it goes off because of the children, into the trap.
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