DPRK: Kaesong Folk Hotel

From the mountain we drove to our lodgings for the evening, the delightful Kaesong Folk Hotel where guests stay in traditional style rooms, sleeping on thin mattresses on the floor with hard blocks for a pillow. On the way we passed the town square where the children's festival was still going on and moments later drove into the car park of the hotel.
The complex is built across a small stream and the individual blocks contain several rooms around small courtyards.

We dropped our belongings in the rooms and went out to take a couple of pictures before a tasty but uncomfortable dinner, again in the traditional Korean style, seated on the floor. The only downside to the whole thing was that we were not allowed to leave the grounds of the hotel, not even by a few paces to take photographs in the street.
That notwithstanding it was a very pleasant place to finish the day.

Next morning, when we went down for breakfast, we also realised that we could see the distant statue of Kim Il Sung on top of the hill. Had we looked for it in the dark of the previous evening, after we had spent an hour or two in the candlelit environs of the bar - the power having gone off shortly after our arrival - we would also have seen it. The various monuments to the two leaders around the country are among the few things where power is most carefully maintained even through the frequent power cuts that afflict everywhere else.