A group of South Korean tourists are in Pyongyang for the first private tour of North Korea's capital.

The Seoul-based Freedom Travel said 101 tourists left Thursday morning on an Asiana Airlines' direct flight to Pyongyang.

During the two-day tour, they will visit the Arch of Triumph, Mangyeongdae Schoolchildren's Palace and museums and watch the "arirang" performance, a synchronized gymnastics and dance spectacle involving more than one-hundred-thousand people..

Some 900 more tourists from South Korea are expected to visit the North's capital until October 15th.