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A little knowledge about DPRK-vehicles and plates was very helpful for my travel companion an me to "brake the ice" with our two (mandatory) guides. Of course at the beginning, in the bus from the airport they asked us carefully about our knowledge about their country, what and where we read or watched something about it.
The first community spirit came just a few minutes after leaving the airport. After we all could breath again after the shock of seeing the death coming - a gravel-truck nearly had crashed into us head-on.
At our first photo-stop they made big eyes, when Alex and me have asked the guide (the older male one, the young lady had no knowledge about cars) "Is that a Sungri?", "Is that a Chollima?", "Do you know any Sungri Paektusan, the Mercedes 190-copy still running?" and so on
When I took this pic
we all were shocked. Me, because it was nearly killed again within just 20 minutes after the gravel truck-incident. And the guides, because they have seen, who was in the car, resp. the car-convoi. Yes, it was HIM, Kim Jong Un himself. We haven't seen him, but otherwise: who else in Northkorea is travelling in a convoi, including two stretched S-Klasse-Benzes (W220-based), escorted by half a dozen black BMWs, Lexuses and BMW X5 with sirens and military plates??
After that shock I provoked annother one Because of being totally excited about that motiv:
Because it was a Tatra, but more about the extreme rarity of a private plate. Then was our "battlecry" created, with whom we irritated the guides and the driver a few times more: "TAATRAAA!" In the bus combinated with jumps over the seats to get the pics. Finally I remember 5 or 6 Tatra 613 in Pyongyang - and all with private plates!!
The first community spirit came just a few minutes after leaving the airport. After we all could breath again after the shock of seeing the death coming - a gravel-truck nearly had crashed into us head-on.
At our first photo-stop they made big eyes, when Alex and me have asked the guide (the older male one, the young lady had no knowledge about cars) "Is that a Sungri?", "Is that a Chollima?", "Do you know any Sungri Paektusan, the Mercedes 190-copy still running?" and so on
When I took this pic
we all were shocked. Me, because it was nearly killed again within just 20 minutes after the gravel truck-incident. And the guides, because they have seen, who was in the car, resp. the car-convoi. Yes, it was HIM, Kim Jong Un himself. We haven't seen him, but otherwise: who else in Northkorea is travelling in a convoi, including two stretched S-Klasse-Benzes (W220-based), escorted by half a dozen black BMWs, Lexuses and BMW X5 with sirens and military plates??
After that shock I provoked annother one
Because of being totally excited about that motiv:
Because it was a Tatra, but more about the extreme rarity of a private plate. Then was our "battlecry" created, with whom we irritated the guides and the driver a few times more: "TAATRAAA!"
In the bus combinated with jumps over the seats to get the pics. Finally I remember 5 or 6 Tatra 613 in Pyongyang - and all with private plates!!