After a week on the train if felt great to get cleaned up and have a good night's sleep. We were more than happy to have a couple of days in Vladivostok before heading to Korea.
With its steep hills and huge bridge, Vladivostok has been described as the San Francisco of Russia. The Eastern Port city is very scenic and had a lot more to offer than I ever expected.
Highlights for us here included a walk along the ocean front boardwalk, a visit to an old artillery battery and a chance to get inside a S-56 Submarine.
We also rode the Funicular cable car to a very impressive lookout before making our way to the Pyongyang Restaurant.
This North Korean restaurant has been on our radar from the very early stages of our trip planning. The more we learned about this DPRK sponsored establishment, the more we considered it a must visit for us.
The young North Korean female staff took our orders in almost robotic fashion and we enjoyed our meal as they periodically broke out in karaoke. It was a strange yet entertaining evening.
On Wenesday September 12th, we boarded the Eastern Dream DBS ferry. After sixteen days in Russia I still found the different feeling here difficult to explain; however, we were both ready to move on and excited to be going home to Korea.
Roughly 24 hours later we docked at Donghae Port. We had made it from Morroco to Korea by travelling entirely by land and sea.
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