Hi Guys,
Constant reader rare poster, everyone here was a great help with my RTW trip a few years ago, so I am hoping someone can help now,
I am going on an organised tour of the DPRK (North Korea) in August, this is the only way you can travel there. Tourist are expected and preferred to use Euro while in the country. Everything I have read has suggested taking a large amount of Euro 1 & 2 Coins as they rarely have change and otherwise you are paying for small snacks and drinks etc with Euro notes, I will be there for 11 days, so paying 5EURO for a drink when I should be paying 1 or 2 will add up.
I have gone through my stockpile of foreign coins and found about 8 EURO in coins, which I don't think will be enough. I know banks, exchanges etc don't deal in coins and with no trip to EU coming up I am struggling to think of somewhere to get them from. I have tried eBay (another forum said that it was a good way to get rid of unused foreign coins) with no luck. I did find a US company that sells traveller bundles of foreign coins, however they don't ship to Australia.
Anyone got any suggestion or ideas??
Constant reader rare poster, everyone here was a great help with my RTW trip a few years ago, so I am hoping someone can help now,
I am going on an organised tour of the DPRK (North Korea) in August, this is the only way you can travel there. Tourist are expected and preferred to use Euro while in the country. Everything I have read has suggested taking a large amount of Euro 1 & 2 Coins as they rarely have change and otherwise you are paying for small snacks and drinks etc with Euro notes, I will be there for 11 days, so paying 5EURO for a drink when I should be paying 1 or 2 will add up.
I have gone through my stockpile of foreign coins and found about 8 EURO in coins, which I don't think will be enough. I know banks, exchanges etc don't deal in coins and with no trip to EU coming up I am struggling to think of somewhere to get them from. I have tried eBay (another forum said that it was a good way to get rid of unused foreign coins) with no luck. I did find a US company that sells traveller bundles of foreign coins, however they don't ship to Australia.
Anyone got any suggestion or ideas??