X TRAVELING North Korea

When I visited North Korea for the first time, having known all my professional life in many countries, I realized I still had capacity to surprise.

North Korea is different, unique, unusual. What you see is something difficult to explain in a few lines. It is a journey that in some respects, puts us in the 60's in a country with a form of political and social organization very different from ours.

Clearly one of the most interesting of the trip is to see up close the kind of society that currently governs this country, but do not forget to appreciate the ancient culture in many Buddhist monuments and temples, besides its beautiful mountain scenery.

What I can say without a doubt, this visit is that it breaks the conventional travel scheme in which there may be an excellent monumental natural environment more suggestive but in no event exceed the surprise and shock that causes discover North Korea.

Tony Wheeler (founder of Lonely PlanetGuidebooks ©, one of the most prestigious publishers and experience in the tourism sector) said in an interview that North Korea "is arguably one of the most unusual of the earth