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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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Mega Tours and Travel 2024
25 May 2020 / by Pier Doyon
At Young Pioneer Tours we consider ourselves the experts when it comes to mega tours and travel. We run a lot of tours to a lot of places, some of them are very short, but some are what we like to refer to as mega tours. What is a mega tour? To us it i …
Black Sea Tours
24 May 2020 / by Joel Vostok
For the past couple of years, the YPT Soviet Europe office has been based in the Black Sea port city of Varna, Bulgaria. The location is rather fitting for a number of reasons, not only can we see the epic monument to Soviet Bulgarian Friendship from o …
Korean War Tours
24 May 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
A view of the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War, the biggest War Museum of Korea On every tour to North Korea you will receive at least some education on the Korean War, obviously from the point of view of North Korea. Now, whilst we do not run spec …
Sinchon Massacre Museum
24 May 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
Introduction to the Sinchon Massacre Museum The Sinchon Massacre Museum of American War Atrocities! To give it its full title. This is probably the most macabre place you can visit in North Korea. When you consider quite how seriously the DPRK take the …
Bhutan Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)
24 May 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
Bhutan is often painted (much like Tibet) as a kind of Buddhist utopia where everyone prays and is really happy. I mean ,they even measure Gross Domestic Happiness right? Well, the situation on the ground is a bit different. Introducing the Bhutan Comm …
King of Bhutan
24 May 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
Did you know that the King of Bhutan was the last last absolute monarch to willingly give up power? In the modern world， there are far less countries governed by monarchies than are republics. When we think of monarchies we tend to think of them as wri …
Flag of Syria
21 May 2020 / by YPT Team
Introduction to the Syrian Flag For this blog we’re looking at the flag of Syria, more specifically the flag of the Syrian Arab Republic, or thw Syrian flag that represents the regime and government of Bashar al Assad. Of course there are numerous othe …
Wondrous deserts of Egypt
21 May 2020 / by Pier Doyon
Few countries are as iconic to travelling as Egypt. When thinking about the cliche of the traveller, you might have the Taj Mahal of Indian, the Great Wall of China or the Parthenon of Greece in mind but the Pyramids of Egypt are never far in mind. It …
Football in China
20 May 2020 / by John McGovern
There’s a Chinese joke that goes something like this. A young man is sitting alone in his room and decides to watch some porn. He draws the curtains, turns on his laptop and sits down watching. Suddenly there’s a knock at the door, he hits a button on …
