Next were heading to DMZ tunnel #3

While there are pictures on the Internet, for some strange reason, picture taking is prohibited. It's a long tunnel carved through rock and layers of coal. One walks about a kilometer into it, wearing a very necessary hard-hat, almost all the way downhill, and at the end, there is a closed door and a room, beyond which no one is permitted to go, one turns around and hoofs it all the way back uphill to the entrance. .

 

The bridge and the offramp that took us first to the Tunnel and then to the Mt Dora observation post was heavily guarded

 

 

After a noisy and slow crawl up Mt Dora, which was ringed by military units, we arrived at the observation point. Suffering from a case of target fixation, and also getting the wrong instructions, or misunderstanding the ones we were given, I brought no camera bag off the bus and left with only the long lens. However, just before we left I was told, when pointing out other tourists with bags, that I could have taken my camera bag out, after all. So, these two pictures are file shots off the Internet. The upper one a news shot, the lower one from DMZ tours.com, all the rest are my own.

 

 

From here, using the available coin-operated telescopes, or one's own telephoto lens, one can see deep into the North to distant cities. The city above (top image, in the distance) may be Gaeseong. What we see closer up is the Gaeseong Industrial Complex. Start at the top and continue from right to left. You can see the landmarks (brown buiding-white bridge) where they would connect.
Stitched together, it would look something like this. It was unintended. I just happened to, over time, take all three of these images and later saw that they fit
The bottom two: Don't know about the village, but the military outpost is definitely within the DMZ.

 

And the south-facing edge of the DMZ

 

 

 

After I finally changed lenses, I noticed this lovely little shrine here, with it's own bell

 

And inside this gorgeous altar, an island of peace within a world gone crazy.

 

 

I do not know what this stone stands for, but a lot of Koreans had their picture taken in front of it