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Welcome to the Young Pioneer Tours Blog, the place where we we keep you informed about everything YPT, from current tours, to future tours and a whole lot of eclectic stuff in between.
YPT first started blogging in 2008 and are considered the best North Korean Travel blog that there is.
But, as Young Pioneer Tours have expanded our locations, so have we expanded our blog. Now we have one of the best travel blogs in the world!
And while most of our content is about the numerous destinations we go, including travel guides and what to pack, we also delve into more serious subjects such as the safety of certain destinations, as well as how LGTBQ+ friendly the places we visit are.
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How to get to Andorra
3 August 2020 / by
Introduction How to get to Andorra? Finally, the nightmare that is COVID-19 seems to be slowly fading and travel in Europe is steadily picking up again. With this in mind, we have recently announced our brand spanking new Microstates of Europe Road Tri …
Languages of Transnistria
30 July 2020 / by Joel Vostok
The Transnistrian Civil War was largely fought over language and cultural rights. Naturally, Russian is the dominant language in the country but there are a range of languages spoken in this fascinating strip of land due to the amount of people and emp …
Map of Transnistria
30 July 2020 / by Joel Vostok
Alongside Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia, Transnistria is one of the many grey zones on the map of Europe that appeared in the turbulent years after the fall of the USSR. Transnistria’s territory roughly corresponds to the territory betw …
What to Pack to Travel to Transnistria
30 July 2020 / by Joel Vostok
A common question many people ask us when visiting such a lesser-visited destination like Transnistria, is what to pack? We’ve visited the country in the baking heat, snowstorms, and all seasons of the year. So we have a good amount of knowledge on wha …
Sample 9 day itinerary for Transnistria
30 July 2020 / by Joel Vostok
The following sample 9 day itinerary for Transnistria marks what we would call our standard Transnistria Tour. This has us start and finish in Bucharest, although this can e swapped with Chisinau, or combined with one of our other Soviet Tours. The fol …
The flag of Transnistria
30 July 2020 / by Joel Vostok
The flag of Transnistria is one of the few flags still functioning with a hammer and sickle on it, just another time warp aspect of this fascinating breakaway state. To understand the story of the Transnistrian flag, we need to go back to the history o …
Food in Transnistria
30 July 2020 / by Joel Vostok
Transnistria may be called ‘the last of the USSR’ but trust us, the days of Soviet food are long gone. Well, almost. The old stereotype of Eastern European food being bland and unexciting is dead. As the crossroads of various empires throughout history …
Transnistrian Currency
30 July 2020 / by Joel Vostok
When it comes to spending money in Transnistria, your credit card is largely useless. There are a tiny fraction of ATMs that will accept Western cards but we don’t recommend using them. In breakaway states, cash is king! Thankfully, there are plentiful …
Overview of Transnistria
30 July 2020 / by Joel Vostok
Transnistria is a Russian backed, breakaway state sandwiched between Moldova and Ukraine. During the collapse of the USSR in the 1990s, the region erupted into full-scale civil war killing over a thousand people and displacing many more. In the afterma …
