Best DMZ Tour from Seoul (All in One with Guide, Vehicle, Ticket)


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Pricing Info: Per Person

Duration: 6 hours

Departs: Seoul, Seoul

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Free cancellation

Up to 24 hours in advance.

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Overview

★ A journey to understand the world's only divided country
★ View of North Korea from nearest observatory!
★ Visit the 3rd Infiltration Tunnel, Dora Station and Imjingak

Experience the most popular tourist spot of Korea on this 7-hour tour of the demilitarized zone. The DMZ Area is the only place that you can see the reality of the most divided area in the world. Enjoy the following sights: Imjingak Park, the Unification Bridge, ID Check, DMZ theater and exhibition hall, the Third Infiltration Tunnel, Dora Observatory, Dorasan Station, and Amethyst or Ginseng Center. Choose from one of two departure times when you book.


What's Included

Pick up & Drop off at President Hotel (16 Eulji-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea )

Professional English-speaking guide

Transportation

What's Not Included

Food and drinks

Hotel drop-off


Traveler Information

  • INFANT: Age: 0 - 2
  • CHILD: Age: 3 - 6
  • ADULT: Age: 7 - 99

Additional Info

  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • Face masks required for guides in public areas
  • Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
  • Sneakers are required for your safety
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • Face masks required for guides in public areas
  • Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
  • Sneakers are required for your safety
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

  • For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
  • If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

What To Expect

Imjingak Pyeonghoa-Nuri Park
Imjingak is the most representative place that symbolizes Koreans’ desire to reunify two Koreas.
It is a small theme park with rides at one side and barbed wire fences at the other side, making it a bizarre place. The park is a place to pray for the reunification of Korea. There are two historical things in the park site. One of them is a bridge called Freedom Bridge. It is an eighty three meter long wooden bridge used by 13,000 POWs who came down to South Korea seeking freedom. Another one is an original steam locomotive smokestack from the Korean War. The train was used by the South Army before being destroyed in 1950. It was deserted for 55 years with 1,020 bullet marks.

60 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Constructed on the back of Mangbaedan on Imjingang River, it is symbolic of “return to freedom” because war prisoners crossed the bridge in 1953 during the Korean War. The bridge was used by 13,000 POWs who came down to South Korea seeking freedom.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

DMZ
- The Unification Bridge
The bridge is more like a symbolic bridge built back in 1998, wishing unification between two Koreas. It was built by Hyundai Business Group of South Korea. Underneath the bridge you can see a river which is called Imjingang, coming down from North Korea. The founder of Hyundai whose name was Jung Juyoung crossed this bridge and went to North Korea back in 1998 with precisely 1,001 cows.

- DMZ theater and exhibition hall

- The Third Tunnel

60 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

The Third Tunnel
*The highlight of the DMZ tour is to explore a tunnel dug by North Korea.
The tunnels are believed to have been planned as a military invasion or infiltration route. Each tunnel is large enough to enable the passage of thirty thousand soldiers in one hour. The 3rd tunnel discovered in 1978 penetrates into South Korea by 435 meters beyond the ceasefire line. You are going to hear how the tunnel was discovered with more detailed information. After listening to the story, you will enter into the actual tunnel to find the ambition of North Korea to make another sudden invasion. In addition, you are going to watch a short documentary film at the DMZ theater, and look around relics and reproductions of Korean War at its small exhibition hall.

60 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Dora Observatory
*Dora Observatory, or OP Dora is the closest observation post to North Korea.
From the observation platform, North Korean scenery is visible, and so are the outskirts of Gaeseong City, the 3rd largest city of North Korea. Especially, you can view the Gaeseong Industrial Complex operated by both Koreas. If you use the binocular, a statute of Kim Il-sung can be found near the Gaeseong City.
You can also observe a fake North Korean border village. Within DMZ of North side, there’s a small village called “Propaganda Village.” On a clear day, you can view through binocular that it is actually a deserted town. Like a multi-million dollar Hollywood filming set, some lights flicker on and off at set times to create the illusion of people living there.

60 minutes • Admission Ticket Free


Reviews

the only divided nation in the world DMZ was a really meaningful tour.
_C1241JX, 11-01-2023
the only divided nation in the world DMZ was a really meaningful tour. I can make friends with tourists from many countries. It was a meaningful time in many ways. Recommend.
I definitely recommend this!
bunbunss, 09-01-2023
I definitely recommend this! Although I am living in Korea now, meeting North Korean Defector was a new experience.
Highly recommended I was able to see the north korea side due to find weather
_R3045QU, 08-01-2023
Highly recommended I was able to see the north korea side due to find weather, was amazing experience.This is one of the best and meaningful Korean tours, where we learn about the history of the Korean War.
I applied because I heard it was a company that went on a DMZ tour for a long time
_I6919OU, 04-01-2023
I applied because I heard it was a company that went on a DMZ tour for a long time, and I was also a veteran guide. I have to hurry early in the morning because of many tourists like the Vatican Museum of Art, but I thought I should see it even though the time in Korea was not long, but my choice was not wrong. Make sure to go!
I participated in the tour even though it was so cold because of my friend who is interested in Korea
_N1069YM, 04-01-2023
I participated in the tour even though it was so cold because of my friend who is interested in Korea. At first, I just thought I wouldn't be able to experience it anywhere, but the more I heard about history, it was amazing. There are more than 100 countries in Korea that can go without a visa, but they can't go to the nearest North. Isn't it amazing that Korean can't even get a visa? It was a tour with a really amazing story hidden. I thanked my friend after the tour.




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