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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.
While the vast majority of our content is produced in-house, we are always on the look-out for guest bloggers and writers. Want to write for us? Then simply get in touch.
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What would a Federal Korea look like?
22 December 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
When western “experts” talk about what a unified Korea would look like, it is usually through the lens of the North Korean regime falling and being incorporated into the South. You could call this the Germany model. There are numerous reasons why this …
Why do we say,”From here to Timbuktu”?
22 December 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
Why do we say,”From here to Timbuktu”? Well Timbuktu, is a real place in case you wondered.. In 2012 Timbuktu hit the headlines during the Mali Civil War when it was captured by MMLA rebels aiming to create a country called Azawad. We will ignore the f …
Eritrean Cuisine
22 December 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
Eritrean cuisine is awesome! Article over? OK, I’ll go into more depth, but essentially Eritrean cuisine is a fusion of two of the best cuisines in the world: Italian and Ethiopian. One of the few aspects of colonialism that can leave a nice mark! So g …
History of Korean Flags
22 December 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
History of Korean Flags Korean flags instead of Korea flag is the result of Korea being split in two these days, but it has a glorious history as a unified state. It has also been through a hell of a lot of changes, which means there have been a lot of …
Is Eritrea the North Korea of Africa?
19 December 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
Is Eritrea the North Korea of Africa? No, it is not! It is very much its own country doing its own thing. We personally do not like people saying this! Why is Eritrea a country? Unknown to many people, Ethiopia was pretty much the only country in Afric …
The Three Princes of Laos
19 December 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
The three princes of Laos were three very different people. There’s a saying that the pole rarely falls far from the tree, but that is not always the case, as these three siblings showed. Background to the three princes of Laos When it comes to South-E …
Can you gamble in North Korea?
19 December 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
Can you gamble in North Korea? The short answer is that whilst gambling is banned for the citizens of North Korea, there are two casinos that cater to foreign guests. There are also a few instances in which North Koreans themselves may gamble. Gambling …
Arab Socialism
18 December 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
Arab Socialism was one of the many brands of socialism that appeared in the 20th century. It was, and to an extent, one of the more successful brands of socialism. Almost all of of the republics of the Arab world had some form of Arab Socialism. Even t …
How to Cook Your Turkmen Truffles
18 December 2020 / by Caitlin Graham
Having left the relative cool of the Kopet Dag mountain range where we’d spend the previous night with a local family in a village, we drove along the one road heading from Ashgabat to the west of Turkmenistan. Little did we know that we’d learn how to …
