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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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Docking at Ittoqqortoormiit (that’s easy for you to say)
30 September 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
Nature is nature. But there really is only so many times that you can see an iceberg – or even something as spectacular as the Northern lights – without getting fatigue from it. My main reason for being on this trip was to be the ‘guide’, or in this in …
Ittoqqortoormiit – the Full Guide
30 September 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
Ittoqqortoormiit is one of the least visited places in one of the most remote places on earth. YPT have therefore decided to write a guide to it! How many people live in Ittoqqortoormiit? 452 according to Wikipedia, although we saw a lot of babies, so …
My first Bangladesh Tour
30 September 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
To say that I caught the travel bug fairly early would be a bit of an understatement. My first trip abroad (without my family) was in 1996, when a fifteen-year-old me when to Bangladesh. Why, you might ask, would I visit Bangladesh at such a tender age …
A Greenland cruise – to the ship and beyond
30 September 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
Day one of the Young Pioneer Tours Greenland cruise started in typical YPT fashion with our group meeting at 6pm in the Lebowski bar, before heading off on a pub crawl that involved eating the infamous hakarl, drinking the local liquor, and staying up …
How to get a visa for Saudi Arabia
28 September 2019 / by Rowan Beard
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia used to be one of the toughest countries to visit as a tourist. Tales of extreme bureaucracy and difficult manoeuvres were quite common for non-Muslims who wanted to travel and explore the closed-off country. As of September …
Saudi Arabia starts giving tourism e-visas to over 50 nationalities
28 September 2019 / by Pier Doyon
the main page of the saudi e-visa website Saudi Arabia, the long out-of-reach kingdom, birthplace of Islam. It has been on travellers bucketlist for a very long time but, until very recently, it was one of the hardest countries to get into due to a ver …
5 reasons to visit South Ossetia
28 September 2019 / by Joel Vostok
This year, Young Pioneer Tours were invited to attend the Independence Day celebrations in South Ossetia, one of the youngest post-Soviet breakaway states that tore away from Georgia in a short but brutal war in 2008. Now, the Republic of South Ossetia …
Mount Hagen City Guide Papua New Guinea 2024
27 September 2019 / by Pier Doyon
Welcome to the Mount Hagen city guide from YPT! Second only to Port Moresby, Mount Hagen is certainly one of the most visited areas of Papua New Guinea. Every year, it hosts the biggest cultural show of the country, gathering a plethora of tribes with …
The Trans-Siberian: Moscow to Ussuriysk
27 September 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
It’s somewhat well established that we at YPT love our trains, and taken them as often as possible. There’s something wonderful about no baggage or security checks, no check-in, no ridiculous restrictions on lighters and liquids, and enough room to avo …
