It was once an exclusive five-star resort floating directly over Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Today, it sits dilapidated in a North Korean port, a 20-minute drive from the Demilitarized Zone.
It was once an exclusive five-star resort floating directly over Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Today, it sits dilapidated in a North Korean port, a 20-minute drive from the Demilitarized Zone, the restricted area that separates the two Koreas.
"He had much love and appreciation for the Great Barrier Reef," says Robert de Jong, a curator at the "It's a horseshoe-shaped reef, with quiet waters in the center, so ideal for a floating hotel," says de Jong. The novelty of it all generated quite a buzz at first, and the hotel was a dream for divers. Even non-divers could enjoy incredible views of the reef, thanks to a special submersible called The Yellow Submarine."If the weather was rough and you had to go back to town to catch a plane, the helicopter couldn't fly and the catamaran couldn't sail, so that caused a lot of inconveniences," says de Jong.
"It disappeared really quietly," says de Jong,"And it was sold to a company in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, which was looking to attract tourists."After failure off the coast of the Great Barrier Reef, it spent a year in Vietnam, then moved to North Korea.In 1989 the floating hotel embarked on its second journey, this time 3,400 miles northward.
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