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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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Names of Cambodia
12 March 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
How many names of Cambodia have there been? This is a bit of a tough question! Essentially Cambodia is a translation of the actual name of the country (Kampuchea). Also there have at various times been at least two competing countries, with competing n …
South Ossetia – Football Team Profile
12 March 2020 / by
South Ossetian statue We here at YPT love nothing more than breakaway states and unrecognized countries and this might be one of our favourites! Situated in the southern Caucuses, South Ossetia is amongst the youngest breakaway states in the world, hav …
Kazakhstan Top 5 Nature sites
12 March 2020 / by Alistair Riddell
Kazakhstan has some genuinely beautiful places. Some travellers will say that everything they see is beautiful, and there has never been a single unseemly sight on their travels. Well, that just isn’t true about Kazakhstan – some of the industrial wast …
5 Things to do in West Papua
11 March 2020 / by Dominic Perry
West Papua is a criminally unexplored region. There’s so much to do and see! With repeat visits, I’m sure the numbers on this list could expand in perpetuity, but let’s just limit it to five for now, counting down towards a personal favourite. If you l …
How to Get to West Papua
11 March 2020 / by Dominic Perry
As some of you might know, YPT runs tours to West Papua now. On our trip, we start from Bali in Indonesia and fly to Jaypura, the ‘capital’ of West Papua. But is that really the only way to get there? What you need First of all, it doesn’t matter if yo …
Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble
11 March 2020 / by Nicolas Platt
The Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble (보천보전자악단) is a North Korean band that was the countries first electronic pop group formed in 1985. While lesser known than the all Female Pop Group the Moranbong Band that took not only North Korea but the world by stor …
The 2010 Haiti Earthquake and Effects on Tourism
11 March 2020 / by Dominic Perry
Damage from the Haiti earthquake in Port-au-Prince On Tuesday, the 12th of January 2010 at exactly 16:53 local time, a magnitude 7 earthquake rocked the country of Haiti. The initial quake lasted for about thirty seconds, with aftershocks that continue …
The paddle steamers of Bangladesh
11 March 2020 / by Pier Doyon
There aren’t many means of transportation as iconic of the old days of traveling as steamboats. Along with steam trains (like the one that can still be ridden in Eritrea), steamboats or paddle steamers are the kinds of vehicles transportation geeks dre …
Travel update regarding Covid-19
10 March 2020 / by YPT Team
The coronavirus Covid-19 which originated in China and has already led to the closing of the DPRK to all tourism for the indefinite future is continuing to make its way around the globe and disrupts tours in many countries and travel in general. YPT ha …
