And the obligatory Supreme Leader inspection walkabout photo in the hotel lobby.


They also had a hotel store inside.


Selling everything from local candies to M&M's. All the prices were in local currency but you had to pay in foreign currency at the set exchange rate. The prices were quite reasonable however.


We then left Pyongyang via the Youth Hero Motorway. Opened in October 2000, Ms. Chang said it was named after the many youth that built the road.


An inspiring agriculture slogan by Kim Il-sung on the hill above a cooperative farm which we would visit tomorrow on our return to Pyongyang.


After about an hour drive from Pyongyang we arrived at the RyongGang Spa & Hotel.


And the rather spartan interior of my room. The bed was rock hard again too! Each room came with their own bath though to soak away the aches with the hot spring mineral water.


And the large indoor swimming pool.


After the dog soup for lunch it was time for our second dose of interesting North Korean cuisine, petrol clams! Helping to stack on the stone slab the freshly caught clams (with their mantles turned upwards so no petrol would seep in) from the nearby Korea Bay.


Our bus driver and now expert chef Mr. Lee spraying liberal amounts of flaming petrol onto the carefully placed clams.