What I have seen in rural areas of North Korea: there are very few cars on the road and most of the houses are built on hillsides.

North Korea is a mysterious country, especially in rural areas of North Korea. It is even more mysterious because few people can go there. However, if you travel to North Korea and take a train, you still have the opportunity to see the rural scenery of North Korea. Although the tour guide reminded tourists not to take pictures after boarding the train to Pyongyang, tourists still raised their cameras from time to time and took some pictures of the North Korean countryside.

It is only more than two hundred kilometers from Sinuiju, North Korea, to Pyongyang, but the train takes more than five hours to travel. Moreover, most of the journey is through rural areas. So, everyone has enough time to watch the scenery outside the window. The most impressive thing about the North Korean countryside is that all villages are clean and peaceful. In larger villages, the houses are neatly built together. The roofs are usually red, yellow and blue, and the walls are white.

Spacious roads are rarely seen in rural areas of North Korea, so there are almost no cars on the road. Occasionally, you can see some old cars driving on the dirt road, raising waves of dust. According to my observation, most of the houses in rural North Korea are built on hillsides. I think one advantage of building a house this way is that it can use as much flat land as farmland as possible.

It may not be the busy farming season, so it is rare to see people working in the fields. North Korean farmers plow their fields with traditional oxen. This scene is actually rarely seen in rural areas of our country. Farmland is generally well groomed. However, trees are rare in North Korean rural areas, and even on hillsides, there are very few trees.

There are very few public transportation vehicles in rural areas of North Korea, and there is almost no public transportation. There are even very few passenger buses. Most of the people I saw along the way were people walking or riding bicycles. Perhaps because the transportation is not very convenient, the size of the villages here is generally not very large. There are usually seven or eight households in a village.