Photos of Pyongyang’s Giant Ryugyong (류경) Hotel

The North Korea travel specialists at Koryo Tours were recently allowed to visit Pyongyang’s Ryugyong Hotel and posted about it on their blog this morning. They became among the first Western tourists (I imagine various Chinese officials, Egyptians from Orascom – the company paying for the most recent wave of construction, and other non-Westerners have also toured the facility) to visit the hotel, hulking unfinished over Pyongyang’s skyline for over 20 years.



From the blog and photos, it looks like some progress is being made, especially on closing in the facade with what must have been a huge amount of glass. I’ll post of couple of the photos below. More are available on the Koryo Tours blog and their Facebook page.






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