中国・北朝鮮国境へのストレスフルな到着🇨🇳

中国・北朝鮮国境へのストレスフルな到着🇨🇳

only a quick one. Thank you. Just a quick feel up. 
I think she knows where everything is. I I I would just be there for days and days and I’d probably 
get shouted out. Well, that’s the first time   that’s ever happened to us and the however many 
times we come to China. Don’t really know what to do now. Oh, it’s very close. This one. Hi guys, 
welcome back. We’re on tour with Dridgers. If you’re new here, we’re a full-time travel couple from the UK. We 
are currently in Dalian in China and today it’s a travel day. We’re getting the first class bullet 
train all the way to Dandong. Um, which is still in the same province, but it’s going to take us 
four Nope. It’s going to take us 2 hours and 45   minutes to get there. Basically, if you don’t know 
what Dandong is, it is the border town with North Korea. So, we are going to actually be able to see 
into North Korea. So, I’m really excited. This is mental. I never thought I’d actually say that 
with my own voice. I never thought I’d actually   get the opportunity to actually look inside North 
Korea. We’re not there yet. So, yeah. And also, the Great Wall of China goes through that city, 
which I didn’t realize how big the Great Wall is. The Great Wall of China is kind of big. Yeah. 
I think that’s where it starts as well. So,   it’s going to be a very interesting city, but we 
got to get through this travel day first of all. Look, this little dog with his little booties. 
How cute is that? Love it. I was like staring   at us as she walked past. But, we’ve just 
ordered a taxi to get to the train station. We’re literally like 10 minutes away. But how 
far is offer a taxi Ben? We ordered it and it   said five minutes. Four minutes, guys. So should 
be here any minute. I will say right in general, taxis in China do come really quick. He is a 
bit ringing it. It says 1 minute away. 1 minute away. Yeah. All right. Our taxi is around the 
other side. He said he’s at the pickup point,   but I think he’s behind our hotel. We’ve only got 
1 minute before it stopped. We got countdown on, so we need to hurry up. All right. There’s 
our taxi. Yeah. Okay. All right. Put bags in. So, our train’s like 11 a.m. and um it’s 
10:15 a.m. So, we’ve actually left early cuz it’s only literally like 10 minutes down 
the road because if you watched us before, we’re normally like running to get our train. We 
got made sure we got here early. And actually,   I might actually get a coffee 
today cuz it’s early and I’m tired. But I am I am expecting like every highspeed 
railway train station in China. I’m expecting a very impressive station. So I’m 
looking forward to seeing this one. All right, we’ve arrived at Dalian train 
station. Passing that bag. You grab the other ones out. Oh god, it’s beautiful day 
today. Look at that. A jag. All right. Your tickets attached to your passport. So, you have 
to go here. But if you’re a resident local, you can normally scan your 
card on here. Thank you. Go on, Ben. Then we got go for security. Pass me your passport back. only a quick one. Thank you. Just a quick fill up 
using that machine to check the water. I think the bag’s open. Nothing come out. All right, it’s gone 
up. Oh no, this station actually does look very if if you look at it, it does look very old. So this 
is Dallian’s oldest station. So the north and the west station are their like super modern ones. 
This one was actually built in 1903. So as you can imagine, it is very dated. When we thought we’d 
got here early, a boarding already, we literally had time to go to the toilet. We didn’t even got 
time to go to the shop. I think you’ve got to be   early, ain’t you? Well, it’s normally 10 minutes 
before cuz they don’t like you on the track too soon, but it’s only 15 minutes before. So, it’s 
quite busy, though. So, we have to go to the one always at the end because there’s a person there 
with the passport scanner. The other one’s there   for Chinese IDs, so you can’t use all of them. So, 
we got a queue in this side of the queue. Hello. Green. Thank you. Green means go. And Ben. All right. Cart 8. I’ve already 
forgot a seat number. 10 and eight. I don’t know. 10. 10 A and 10 C. Was it? Was 
it a 10? I think it was. Oh, my memor is so bad. Platform 8, you just follow the crowd. So, 
it’s it’s very unlikely for you to get lost here because they only lit like one train for at a 
time. So, you can’t really go on a wrong train here. But here it is. The beautiful bullet trains. 
I’ve lost track of how many we’ve been on now. The thing is, Reanne, when you’ve like us, right, we’ve 
been we’ve been to India twice. Yeah. When you’ve been to India, right, everything seems so easy. 
This is just so easy. So the green ones here, they’re like the older style one. I think they’re 
the G trains. And then the bullet trains, the   newer ones are the D trains. I might actually be 
wrong. It might not be a G train because I think the bullet trains have two types, D and G. Um, so 
I might be wrong, but these are the slower trains, the green ones. But these are the fast 
bullet trains. They’re beautiful. I’ve   got a feeling we’ll carriage eight. And I’ve 
got a feeling we’ll all at the other end. Well, I need to check. Isn’t it crazy that people 
go will go through their whole life and never get   the chance to ride on a bullet train? I know. Car 
one’s at the front. So, we’re all the way at the back. Yeah. And literally, people in China are 
riding bullet trains every single day as their normal transport. I know. It’s quite mental, 
isn’t it? Let’s develop this country. Here we   go. Right at the front. Number eight. All right. 
We should be 4 A and 4 C. That’s our seats. This looks very different to some of the other bullet 
trains we’ve been on. I think this is um Well, this is a D. This is uh the more like basic 
one. G train. The G G ones are better. So, we got a footrest bag. No table though. Here you 
go. In your arm. Oh, in our arm. Tables are in the arm. But the best thing about first cast, it’s 
2 by two. Yeah. You need to put his back. Yeah,   he’s like I’m not good at that. But yeah, the 
best thing about the first class is the seats are 2 by two. In the second class, it’s 3x two and we 
always end up in the free, don’t we? Yeah, it is a little bit better. But we should be leaving in 5 
minutes. So, we’re actually a little bit early. I wonder if I can get a lucky. I wonder if there’s a 
food cart on here. It looked quite small. There’s   only eight carriages on here. It wasn’t as long, 
but if you scan the QR code on here, you can um normally at like the next couple of stations 
get food or drink delivered on here. So, Ben’s   going to see if he can get a lock and coffee. 
All right, we’re off. Literally 1 minute early according to my watch. We’re going. This is my 
favorite way to travel anywhere. If I could travel around the world on trains, I’d be so happy. 
Especially in China because they’re bullet trains. You can get there so quick. I would 
literally travel around China on trains, but obviously if you’re going like really far 
like we were in Shang Jang where we welcome aboard Shing. We were in Shing Jang and to fly there it 
took us 4 and 1 half hours. So I don’t think you can do a bullet train. There isn’t no bullet 
trains. I know you can’t. That’s why we had to   fly. But it’s quite mental. But by Dalian, it 
was it was nice here. I looked at it. It’s um a very modern quite quite a quiet city really. 
I think it’d be a good place maybe if you don’t like the busy, hectic, like crazy night life and 
stuff like maybe DM might be quite a nice place to live. Yeah, but it’s got the modern mix of 
the old I feel like as well here. Yeah. A lot of history as well. All right. All right, I just 
remembered there’s hot water on these trains. So, I have got tea and coffee in the bag. So, instead 
of waiting around seeing if we get anything, do you want a hand? No. She knows where everything is. Oh, 
I I would just be there for days and days and I’d probably get shouted out. 
I put the tea and coffee at the front. Travel essential. You got to have a little 
goodie bag. What coffee do you want? Do   you want black? Uh, whatever. Whatever 
comes to mind. One of these do. Yeah. And complimentary from the hotel. Same. I don’t 
know what two that is. Best thing about China, right? Every hotel you stay in, you always get 
tea and coffee like free of charge. So you don’t   drink it. Take with you. Little freebie. 
A little top tip. That such a good idea. So you can like bring noodles on the train 
and that. Yeah, really. You can just you can eat for nothing. I think every country should 
have hot water on their trains. And the stirer is a And the stirer and the stir is a spoon. 
Spoon. No, the stir is a mesh share straw. It’s all I had in my bag. All right. 
Here you go. Coffee for you concept   carrot for I need the toilet. So 
a little toilet tour for you. Sink working water. I don’t know how it works. Western 
toilet. I am actually here to to use it. So uh yeah. Right. So it is a uh a thing to squat in 
China because Chinese people because of hygiene they don’t like their skin touching other people 
where other people’s skin touches. So in these western toilets a lot of the time you always 
find the uh WCC covers. So yeah so if you are quite conscious about skin on skin contact you can 
always get that as well. That’s cool. Um obviously speak a little bit about the infrastructure here. 
So they built the uh railway track so it goes through loads of mountains. We’ve been going 
through loads of tunnels and stuff and they’ve   also built some sections of it are on stilts. 
So they can go over like the rough terrain. So it’s a really cool thing. It’s good. It’s okay. 
They’ve just come around with trolley with like you can buy bags of like sweets and snacks and 
drinks water. I thought it was actually like lunch come around or something. So I know sometimes you 
get snack box and free drinks in there. Something hot. We’re just coming into Dang Dong station. 
So I’m going to get up. It got proper busy look from the last station. Right. Ben’s already out 
there grabbing our bags. That’s pretty much full. I think they’re all going to um the capital city 
now cuz I think this ends there. Got the bags. Right, we have arrived in Dan Dong, the biggest 
city on the border between China and North Korea, and it also has 2.4 million people. So, um, 
yeah, I’m excited to explore it. It’s going to be interesting to be here and to be 
this close to such a secretive country. Seems like quite a small train station. 
Um, to get out, you need your passport and scan it. I think we need to go over 
to this mie. This mie here. Thank you. Sh. All right. Let’s go outside. Oh, wow. Statue 
right in the middle. Wow. I do love getting to a new city, learning some new things. Every city 
in China is just so different. Yeah, that random statue Raman was on about. It’s only the founder 
of the People’s Republic of China’s Mao Zadong.   Obviously, here he is. We did know that because 
obviously we saw the uh younger version of him which ran said was very good-looking in Chang 
Sha and and we said about him being a poet which he was actually a poet in his younger days but 
we got loads of abuse. Everyone was like oh my   god that’s Maong. That’s Maong like the most 
famous person in the whole of China. Yeah, we know who he is right here. He is right in 
front of us. She booked a hotel on WeChat direct. I normally go through trip.com, but where 
I’ve got like credit and stuff on WeChat,   I thought I’ll go for that. So on WeChat, 
you can actually if you click that, you can just on the on the hotel page and just 
get a taxi straight from there. So it’s so easy. The easiest way to do it is do it directly 
through WeChat. I just didn’t realize. And plus,   you can um obviously it’s all in 
Chinese, but if you are a foreigner, if you press the top button with the three little 
dots, you can translate it all anyway. So it’s   uh it’s easy, right? So, I was just about to 
order a taxi and it said 4. I thought, “Oh, that’s cheap.” But then I actually looked on the 
map. So, we’re here and it’s dropping us here. So, literally it’s here. So, apparently it’s here 
somewhere. Yeah, it’s around the other side. Yeah, it’s the other side of the Yeah, it’s quicker to 
walk, isn’t it? Yeah, I checked an A map. It’s 4m   minute walk. We nearly got a taxi. We actually got 
a taxi. Right. So, been to China maybe even eight or nine times now. So many times. and still 
to this day do not understand these traffic lights. So, yes, it’s green, but people turn in 
the corner. Can Yeah, they can still go through. But I do obviously I do I do I do actually um 
understand that they’re obviously giving way to pedestrians, but man, it’s cut it well short. 
So, what how far are we? Rian’s navigating. No, we’ve gone like 2 seconds. It was only 2 seconds 
away. 4 minutes away. We’ve just crossed that road from the train station. All right, we found 
our hotel here. Ben’s just double checking,   but I think it is it. Oh, told him to leave 
me the suitcase. And I forgot it’s Evie. I’m not sure if it’s it. I think this hotel 
don’t take foreigners. I think that’s what she’s saying. Not sure. Uh, we cannot accommodate 
foreign guests in in a hotel. Sorry. Okay. Without a Chinese card, it cannot be 
entered into the public security. This   is the regulation of public security bureau. 
I’m sorry cuz we ain’t got Chinese ID. Well, that’s the first time that’s ever happened to 
us in the however many times we come to China.   Don’t really know what to do now. Do we cancel it? 
get our money back. Now we’ve got to find a new hotel. Have you been able to cancel it? Yeah, I 
think I’ve got a refund. Did they help you? Yeah, she she cancelled it. Um thing is she doesn’t 
speak English. I don’t speak Chinese. This is all in Chinese. I said I I translated, “Do I get 
a refund?” And she said, “Yeah.” And then she’s done something on my phone and I think I’ve got a 
refund. Right now, we need to find another hotel.   At the moment, we ain’t got a hotel. What a 
nightmare. Yay. We’ve never had this happen. This is weird. It’s weird, but I understand like 
I’m not going to jump on the bandwag wagon like, “Oh, don’t take foreigners because I know it’s 
like to do with insuranceances and stuff.” So,   um, now we need to find a hotel. All Season Hotel 
is very close to us down there. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Come with me and I’ll help you. Thank you. 
I I’ll book. Yeah. You might just be able to do it when we get in there then. Yeah. You think? So, 
oh, it’s very close. This one here. The big one. Oh, the big one. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. 
Thank you. Bye. Right. So, we are going to the big blue building. He said he recommends it. So, 
uh yeah. So, it turns out, right, they don’t take foreigners. don’t matter. Obviously, like I said, 
insurance or whatever. Um, so I’m assuming that he knows this one takes foreigners. Don’t know. 
I’ve not actually, to be honest, we’ve not had this problem in um China before. We have had it 
in other countries. Um, and we respect that they are as uh like legal things that they got to get 
past. So, um, no big deal. Just a bit uh little bit stressful for us. Obviously trying to find a 
hotel. Bit of a nightmare, but you know, keep calm and carry on. Literally a twominute walk. It’s 
there in front of us. Get out of the road, Ben. How nice is that helping us? It’s a bit more 
expensive. Like quite out of our budget. It’s like £40 a night, but double double our budget. Yeah. 
But it’s one of them situations when you’re like,   “Oh, let’s just do it. I can’t bother to 
mess around.” So, we’re just going to go for this one. We have no idea what it’s like. 
This one? Yeah. This one. That’s the one. Oh,   yeah. We don’t know what it’s 
like. We don’t know anything. So, let’s see. It’s all going to be a surprise 
for all of us today. Looks nice. Looks very nice. AC is good. Oh god. Hopefully our 
booking’s gone through straight away. Booking. Yes. Booking. like 
literally one minute ago. Probably not updated on the system yet. I 
don’t like it when both of us stand there   and like put pressure on them, stare 
at rude. They’re probably not used to um people booking things last minute 
like we do. Don’t know what’s happening,   but she’s going like, “No, no, no.” I 
don’t think they like foreigners booking on WeChat. We’re literally got to wait for our 
confirmation. They’re crazy. Oh, thank you. Sh. Cold lemon water. Yeah. She said to us the 
confirmation hasn’t gone through yet. Um I said, “Well, she speaks a little bit of English, which 
is good.” But I um I literally booked it like 1 minute ago, so obviously uh Where did you put 
your phone? Between my legs. Um literally Yeah, I booked it like 1 minute ago. So, we’re not really 
um we don’t normally do it like this. Well, we do   sometimes, but normally we don’t. Um obviously, 
we got to wait till it goes through, so it might not go through for another like 30, 40 minutes. 
So, we’re just sat here like relaxing. Obviously,   we got a nice drink. It’s actually honestly, 
first impressions. I know we paid a little bit more for it, but this is really nice. Smells 
lovely. Nice and clean. Marble floors. Yeah, really nice. Robot over there as well. He’ll be 
getting he’ll be getting to work a bit later. get me food and coffee. Cannot wait. Can’t wait to get 
in our room. Just um chill out for a little bit. All right, they’ve just confirmed that we can’t 
stay here. Another one that don’t take foreigners,   but she’s gave us another hotel which is even more 
pricey. Yeah, we got the Jade Hotel. We got for two nights it’s going to be about 100 quid for 
two nights. But I think Well, it’s going to be nice hopefully. So, I hope so. I hope there’s 
like breakfast and everything included. No,   it’s breakfast included. Breakfast included. 
Okay. Where is it then? Um, don’t know how far it is. You said it might be quite far. 45 minute 
walk. All right, that’s a taxi. Oh, what a day. Never had this before. I wonder if it’s like the 
location. Must be high security here. This must be a bit more of a secure area for sure. Um, but 
yeah, as is so far a little bit stressful. I’m buzzing to get in our room. We’re still sat here. 
Um, but we booked this hotel obviously and they said we can’t stay here, but we’ve tried to cancel 
it and it says you can’t cancel it. It’s too late.   Once it’s confirmed, you can’t cancel. And I was 
like, well, they need to sort out for us. So, they’re trying to sort it out now. I’m done now. 
I’m over this day. I just want to get my room. I had a phone call scheduled with my dad and sister 
as well at 3:00. 3:00. It’s about to hit 3:00 now as you can see cuz my dad’s in the UK so it’s 8:00 
for him. My sister’s in Australia so it’ll be 5:00 for her and we tried to time in a phone call 
so we can have a group chat cuz we haven’t like   chatted together in weeks and I’m going to miss 
it and I don’t know. I’ve just told him like I’m delayed at the moment. Can we reschedle like 10 15 
minutes? But we haven’t got a hotel at the moment. I’m a bit upset about that. Shushi Shi. Byebye. 
Sorry. Sorry. Thank you for your help. Such a nice lady. Like she spoke tiny bit of English, but 
the platform it’s obviously another platform, not the hotel refunding us. And Oadira, I 
was doing translation on things. She was like   proper asking for asking for the superior and all 
that. So it should be refunded in 2 hours. We’ve just booked another hotel. But we’ve done it on 
trip.com and it’s only 5 minute walk around. So, so I did say that this is my um well, this is our 
first time booking on WeChat. So, so far it hasn’t gone well, but I appreciate that obviously this is 
um a smaller city, not as tourist friendly as some other cities has proved a little bit difficult 
obviously with the language barrier and everything as well. So, probably whilst we’re in Dang, whilst 
we’re in Dandong, we’re probably going to stick to Trip.com just to um save our own sanity cuz 
I’m getting a little bit stressed at the moment. We always use trip.com normally. We do. Yeah. 
This is just the one time we decided to use our WeChat. All right. Holiday in. Trusty Holiday 
in. They have these in the UK. So, let’s hope they’ll take us. It’s a four-star hotel, so and 
it was on trip.com. So, if Holin don’t take us, then what we doing? Sleep on the streets. God 
knows where to ask North Korea to let us in. Here we go. The moment of truth. Yeah. 
Niha. Uh, we have a booking. Oh, sweeties. The coffee candies. You want a coffee candy? They’ve even got holiday in robot, holiday in 
energy power banks, vending machine, microwave, ah tea and coffee, green tea, tax in that. 
Perfect. I can have one there straight away when I get my room. You’ve even got essentials 
there. Don’t want to be running out in the middle of the night, do you? 515. Okay. Fifth floor. Uh, 
third floor. Second floor. One. First floor. Okay. Thank you. Yes, we’ve got a hotel. Oh my god, I’m 
so relieved. When So, um, that there was a police sign on the thing and what it actually said was 
obviously Chinese ID and facial recognition uh, is all linked. So, if you haven’t got a Chinese 
ID, obviously you can’t. Behind you. Oh,   very comfortable. Oh [ __ ] Welcome. Yeah. So, if 
you um haven’t got a Chinese ID and you can’t get the facial recognition, they’ve got to send our 
passports to the local police. So, obviously the other hotels didn’t have that capability 
or I’m guessing that’s why. Fifth floor,   Ben. Fifth floor. Yeah. Don’t know if you need to 
scan your card. Yeah, scan your card. What’s going on? Yep. Yeah, this Yeah, there we go. Right, 
I’ve got four minutes. So, I’ve rescheduled my phone call with my sister and dad for half. 
So, we’ve got 4 minutes to get in the room,   get settled, and show you guys our room. What 
number are we? Uh 515. That way. That way. Uh 515. This one. Oh, that way. I 
thought you were black. Dway. What does Dwayne mean? Yes. Oh, right. Looks 
really noisy. It does actually remind me of home. Really does. This type of rooms. I’m 
trying to learn my language a little bit. So, der is more like confirming something. Like if you 
say, “Oh, is it this way?” And you go, “Dway, do bring that with you.” Oh, smells very clean. Oh, 
wow. I’m not upset about it. I’m very happy. Oh, you got some music. Oh, TV on. Little note on the   table. Teacot. Yes. Green tea. Seating 
area. Um, how do you turn you off then? Got a little thing. AI. Little Alexa there. We’ve 
got phone. That’s um the robot phone us on there. We got view. No view though. Can’t moan. Lastm 
minute.com. This is really nice. Massive TV. It is nice, isn’t it? Bit of storage here to put 
our clothes. Bathroom. Bathroom’s nice. I just like basic clean places like shower. Tresome. 
Tresomeme. shampoo and conditioner. That’s good. Your little bits and bobs there. Right, perfect. 
All right, I need to get ready. Oh, shoot. 1 minute from the phone call. Catch up with you guys 
in a bit. All right, it’s now the afternoon. It’s   about 7:00. We just ordered some food off the 
mear app. If you watched our video yesterday, you’ll know that we rarely ever go out for 
dinner, and yesterday was the runner section. So,   we’re going to show you what we normally do. 
So, probably for the last 3 or 4 hours, I’ve actually been on my laptop editing um doing some 
um collabs and things like that, like catching up on some bits and Ben’s just ordered us some dinner 
and and should be on its way out from the robot. I actually just went out to go to the shop cuz we 
wanted Oh, that’s the robot to get a drink and that, but um we couldn’t find it and we had to run 
back cuz our food was going to be delivered. But let’s get the door. Hello, Matey. Oh, that was the 
guy that was putting our food in the thing. Ben, send him. Yes, this is what we got. Grabbed 
it off. Send them back, Ben. See you later, mate. Holiday in have their own robot. I wonder 
how little is that. Every hotel needs these in every single country. But let’s see what we 
actually got. All right, so this is what we got.   We got sort of chicken. Smells amazing. It’s like 
boiled chicken. And then we got like a meal each. Then should be chicken and pork. Oh, that one’s 
mine. So, I’ve got like two different types of pork, like um pork sausage and pork ribs, egg, 
cabbage, and rice. And then this is Ben’s one. I don’t actually don’t know which one 
looks better. Mine 100% looks better. So,   Ben got chicken with what’s that? Like pork fat. 
That’s pork foot. Pork foot. He likes that. Like it’s really fatty. Pork foot is amazing. No, 
this is better. So we got like the pork Chinese sausage. So, and then we got loads of rice and 
veg underneath. These type of meals are just so cheap and easy to do. How much did this come to? 
Uh I think very everything was about £8, you know, £80. And when we ate out yesterday, it’s about 
£11. And this is with us ordering like the eggs were extra some extra chicken. So, I think it’s 
pretty good. I’ll tell you what. Um, obviously we we went out just a minute ago cuz I wanted to 
get a can of beer cuz I like having a can of beer   after I’ve eaten. Just stops me getting any like 
sweet cravings. If you know, you know, right? Um, but we couldn’t get it. So, I’m wondering, can 
I order just a can of beer off from Lawson’s or something? I’m assuming this is China. I’m 
assuming you can do anything, right guys? Um, I’m out notewalking. Why not? Because the delivery 
of the beer didn’t go quite according to plan. So, basically, it needs to be a minimum order. So, 
a beer in China is relatively cheap, sort of like 6 yan. So, why not just do a little bit like 
walking and go and just grab a beer? China’s very, very safe and I don’t feel threatened whatsoever. 
So, and actually it gives me a chance to see the city at night and it is very quiet and very 
dead to be honest. But as I was leaving, Rian said to me, “Take a bag and uh while you’re 
out uh grab some water and I could I could actually do a bit of yogurt as well.” So, I’ve 
ended up doing um a fair bit of uh shopping. So, I’m actually going to get a few things. It’s 
a bit further than I thought to be honest. Um,   and these streets, right, they do 
actually look a little bit shady, but you think, right, imagine if I was uh doing 
this as a tourist, right? I’ve got a 1,000 watch on. You imagine me walking around the 
streets of South America or somewhere like that or even well, even like the USA or UK, 
man, it would not be the same. Definitely. Not a lot of choice in there to be honest. Can’t be a woo. Shing Jang 
classic. Left me on old self. Be fair. That was well easy. Okay. Shelf service from now 
on. That was absolutely easy. Right. Walk home 10 minutes, 
get in bed, take my clothes off, and drink my beer. Funny thing is, I can’t 
actually remember the way back. So, holiday in 7 minutes away. That’s it. Looks like the one 
that way. Other way, guys. Right, I’ve made it back. Um, tronus, right? We’ve got the best day 
ever coming up tomorrow. We’ve literally got we we’re going to explore this city and honestly 
being so close to the uh North Korea border, I’m absolutely buzzing. Evening, sir. Right 
guys, we have honestly got the best day planned tomorrow. Honestly, this place, so Dandong, it’s 
on the border with North Korea. North Korea is the most secretive country in the world. Nobody 
gets a look inside. We have got the chance to stand in the mainland China and look into the most 
secretive country in the world. It is so exciting, honestly. And this c this and this city has 
more to offer than just that. This city is full of colonial history. It is full of war 
history is full of Chinese history is full of so much and I cannot wait to see it myself and 
share it with you guys at home. So subscribe. So that random statue that Rian said about it’s 
only the founder of the communist [ __ ] off. All right. So it is like a thing to 
like um squat the squatty if you know. Give me a chance. God.

We traveled to China’s largest border city with North Korea – Dandong – but our arrival didn’t go as planned. What should have been a simple stop quickly turned stressful as we faced unexpected challenges trying to settle in at the border city.

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September 2025 | Vlog 542 | Dandong ,China

13/34 Province

When we finally started our adventure
17/07/2021.

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We are Reanne and Ben living in Portsmouth, England. We have been together from the age of 15.
We brought our first house together at 23, got married at 25 and Reanne started her own business at 27.
We have been wanting to travel the world so
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