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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.
You can also check out our sister publication YPT Life.
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Mass Games Returns for 2024 North Korean Tours
27 April 2020 / by YPT Team
An announcement was made earlier in 2020 regarding the Mass Games performance returning for 2020 North Korean tours. Whilst the title of the show is yet to be announced, and with the ongoing closure of the North Korean borders due to COVID-19, we are e …
Mass Games to Return for 2024 North Korean Tours
27 April 2020 / by YPT Team
An announcement was made earlier in 2020 regarding the Mass Games performance returning for 2024 North Korean tours. Whilst the title of the show is yet to be announced, and with the ongoing closure of the North Korean borders due to COVID-19, we are e …
YPT guide to Inner-Mongolia Cuisine
26 April 2020 / by
This won’t be your average guide to Inner Mongolian dishes. As I look through different guides, I’ve noticed they say about the same thing: an emphasis on Roast Lamb and Barbeque. While this is true, I want to give you a special view of the dishes I pe …
North Korean Cuisine – A complete guide
26 April 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
Korean cuisine or more specifically North Korean cuisine is the food made and enjoyed in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea). At YPT we have more than a passing interest in the food of Korea, and have written extensively about it. O …
Makgeolli – Korean rice wine
26 April 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
A very young Pioneer Pier drinking Makgeoli in Sariwon, for Kim Il Sung Birthday tour, seven years ago! Makgeolli (Korean: 막걸리), raw rice wine, also spelt makkoli (much easier) is a raw rice wine drunk in Korea, and to a lesser extent Japan and China. …
International Chernobyl Remembrance Day
26 April 2020 / by Joel Vostok
On this day, 34 years ago, the Chernobyl disaster occured in the North of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The disaster was a result of a combination of human error and flawed design of a reactor. Following a nuclear meltdown and subsequent exp …
National Heroes of Central Asia Series – Kazakhstan – Al-Farabi
25 April 2020 / by Alistair Riddell
A statue of Al-Farabi at Al-Farabi University, in Kazakhstan, taken by Alexandru Panoiu During the Soviet Union, people worshipped Lenin, Marx, Stalin and even their local communist leaders such as Frunze. When the Soviet Union collapsed each country n …
Drink Soju
25 April 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
What is Soju? What is soju? How strong s soju and should you drink soju? As frequent visitors to Korea, both North and South and while our opinion might be a bit skewed, we genuinely feel everyone should drink soju. Here is our introduction to this dri …
Diving in North Korea
25 April 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
Diving in North Korea is not yet a popular thing, but it is at least more than possible to do! It even has its own PADI page. Back in 2015, we had a Danish customer who is also a bit of a dive fanatic that wanted to join us on our Rason tour, and also …
