A waitress works in a restaurant while 24/7 propaganda plays on the television. The seven people including Michal did not get to interact with the locals at all, Bored Panda stated. And most of the waitresses seemed slightly terrified of them. Michal adds that locals pretended they could not see them or acted as if merely talking to them was a threat, which maybe it was. Taking out his DSLR camera was also too risky in some places, where locals reported sightings to the police.

Street cleaners sweep pavements for dust under the keen eye of a soldier in one of the parks in the capital city, Pyongyang. Sightings of residents cleaning on squeaky clean areas were completely bizarre for the tourists considering them as “staged”, The Sun reported. Photos such as the one above could have been deleted since a photo of a soldier’s back area is prohibited. Michal told The Sun that while he did manage to smuggle the photos out of the country, it was still pretty stressful.