I know you expected to see me in Paksan but I had to change cos I couldnt get transport north from there so I would have had to come here eventually so I came straight through. That makes two 11 hour days on the bus in a row. There was enough noise outside my dingy little room this morning to wake me in time to get the 6am bus. It was not the VIP but a local bus. In front of my seat were about 20 plastic stools so I kicked them out of the way and sat down. The bu...

I thought it was a dodgy bus cos I was picked up in a van. When we got to the bus station we had to hand over passports. Everything was looking dodgy. After some time we were shown to our bus, which was OK, and given back our passports. I still dont know why all the drama. The trip to the border was more or less along the DMZ. The DMZ happened BEFORE the Vietnam War. It was proclaimed when the Vietnamese were fighting the French. In fact the DMZ became one of the...