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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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Top 7 East German jokes – newly declassified!
13 March 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
Every year the CIA goes through a declassifying period, which two years ago led us to write a great blog about the 7 best declassified Soviet jokes! As it seemed to give the masses their laughing jollies, we’ve decided to throw some jokes from the old …
Staying at the Yanggakdo International Hotel
12 March 2019 / by Rowan Beard
Introduction The Yanggakdo International Hotel (양각도국제호텔) is most famous for being known as “the hotel on the island” or regularly mistaken as the only hotel tourists can stay at in Pyongyang which isn’t true. The Yanggakdo International Hotel was first …
5 micronations that have claimed Bir Tawil
7 March 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
It ain’t easy for a piece of land to remain entirely unclaimed, due to our species’ rapacious tendency to snap up anything we might be able to frack, mine, harvest or build property on. This is why it is so surprising, perhaps, that the desert territor …
Countries in Europe Without an Official FIFA Football Team – Part 1
28 February 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
Lock a few football geeks, country counters, travel freaks and micronation nerds into a room and you end up with debates over whether or not the Faroe Islands is a country, why Antarctica don’t have a national football team and indeed why on earth the …
A look into the Mount Myohyang Region
27 February 2019 / by Nicolas Platt
Mount Myohyang which is nestled two hours northeast of Pyongyang may not be as famous as some of North Korea’s other mountains such as Mt. Paektu or Mt. Kumgang, it is a hidden gem and an incredibly popular place for domestic tourists to visit in the D …
11 things to know before you go to Tuvalu
26 February 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
Why should you visit Tuvalu? Because Tuvalu is one of the least visited countries on earth (most people won’t have even heard of it) there’s fairly scant information online about visiting Tuvalu. Yet, like anywhere it’s always useful to have a bit of p …
Transnistria’s most famous (and infamous) people
26 February 2019 / by Joel Vostok
Transnistria: a country I have grown to love after many years of travelling and guiding there. However, its status as a ‘country’ is debatable. Born in the wreckage of the USSR, the region burst into a viscous civil war due to Moldovan attempts to ‘Rom …
The Hanoi Summit: US Passport ban overturned?
26 February 2019 / by Nicolas Platt
Today North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un arrived in Hanoi in anticipation for tomorrow’s much-anticipated summit with American President Donald Trump. Here, over the course of the next two days, both leaders are expected to hammer out a series of …
Everest Base Camp Closure Update
25 February 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
From January 1st 2019 there have been changes at Everest Base Camp on the Chinese side in Tibet. While there are changes to where we can visit, it will not have a major effect on people’s experience at the base camp area. Previously travellers were abl …
