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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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Football in Tuvalu
18 May 2020 / by
Here at YPT, Tuvalu has become one of our favourite countries on earth. Why do we love Tuvalu so much? It is hard to say why exactly, but great people combined with stunning landscape, sandy beaches, great fishing and the fact it’s the third least visi …
Football in Marshal Islands
18 May 2020 / by
The Marshall Islands are not the first country you’d associate with football and for good reason – they’ve never had a football team. Situated about half-way between Hawaii and Australia, the Marshall Islands are a group of atolls and reefs in the Paci …
Football in Kazakhstan
18 May 2020 / by John McGovern
Maybe because of a certain film called Borat, Kazakhstan has the sound of strangeness and mystery to it, rather like Timbuktu was once the go to word for. But Kazakhstan is not nearly as strange as you may think, with its mixture of Russia and Central …
Update on South Sudan Power-Sharing Government
18 May 2020 / by John McGovern
Potential for Travel to the World’s Newest Nation You may be forgiven thinking that there’s been nothing in the news that is not related to covid-19 in recent months. But on the 22nd February 2020 one piece of positive news you might have missed was th …
Football in Myanmar
17 May 2020 / by John McGovern
Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, and officially known as the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, has opened up quite a lot in the last few years, but still remains the most mysterious part of Southeast Asia. It is sandwiched between Bangladesh and India …
Football in South Sudan
17 May 2020 / by John McGovern
South Sudan is still the youngest country in the world, having gained independence from Sudan in 2011 after a protracted struggle. Having been controlled by Egypt and then the British, the Southern Sudanese fought two civil wars gaining greater autonom …
Football in the Cayman Islands
17 May 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
I’ll ignore for today the argument about what counts as a country, to get into that check this link, but long story short FIFA has more members than the United Nations, and to add to the mix, not every UN member has a football team. Prime examples here …
Football in Palestine
17 May 2020 / by John McGovern
In the footballing world, Palestine is an interesting case. While certainly a country by our rules, it is only an observer member of the United Nations and a de jure state recognised by 138 UN countries. The Palestinian National Council declared indepe …
Filming in places your mother would rather you stayed away from
15 May 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
At Young Pioneer Tours we are pleased to the be the company that pushes the envelope when it comes to travel, taking people to, as we say, “places your mother would rather you stayed away from”. Now, whilst this is our main bread and butter, it was not …
