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2024 South Korea Trip Day 02: DMZ

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Waking up before 6 was mandatory today as we were going on a trip to the DMZ, someone from the travel agency will contact you the night before and if there are changes to your itinerary, they will inform you. We had /to forego our free breakfast at the hotel as we need to be at the meeting place early on (luckily the meeting place was just across the street from our hotel). We bought some sandwiches and coffee to fill us up for the day ahead.  The only gripe is that convenience store in Korea is that there are full of snacks, chips, coffee , beer, but in terms of sandwiches, not so much (although it might be that I bought during the time that they haven't refilled the shelves , just my luck!)   Why did I want to go?  in the early 2000s when there was a Korean boom and Korean travel was starting to pick up. People were offering DMZ tours (to even go as close as the JSA area, you know the place where US and N Korea officials met for the first time). and I was amazed...