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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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A road bridge between Russia and North Korea
25 April 2019 / by Pier Doyon
As we predicted , Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin today met in Vladivostok. Kim and Putin are meeting for the first time and much has been put on the table in terms of the level of collaboration that could happen between the two countries. Much is still …
A Guide to the Provinces of North Korea
25 April 2019 / by Alistair Riddell
What Korean provinces are there, or more specifically what North Korean provinces are there. We take a lot at the geographical divisions of North Korea. People, namely people who do not happen to live in North Korea, often see the country as a large mo …
Breaking News – Manpo City to Open to Foreign Tourists
25 April 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
Young Pioneer Tours is always working with our Korean partners to open up new parts of the DPRK to tourism, and the city of Manpo in Chagang Province is now open to tourists as of April 2019. What the Manpo? Manpo is a large city of over 100,000 people …
A new budget way to travel between Beijing and Shanghai
25 April 2019 / by Pier Doyon
For a long time, the choices to go from the Chinese metropolis of Shanghai to the capital, Beijing, were either flying or taking the train. As trains are often much cheaper than flights, the choice truly came down to taking a slow train or take the hig …
Top 7 North Korean Snacks in 2025
25 April 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
North Korean snacks might not be famous the world over, but they are interesting and a highlight to any trip here. Without question, one of the elements of travel that I love most is sampling the local cuisine of any new country I’m lucky enough to vis …
How to get from China to Mongolia Overland
25 April 2019 / by Alistair Riddell
Ever since I’ve been in China, I’ve held a preoccupation with the frontiers of this vast land. These are the places where the tidal wave that is mainstream Chinese culture washes against the shores of the other, the minority, the strange – and it often …
Why a DPRK-Russia summit should happen in Vladivostok
24 April 2019 / by Pier Doyon
After a couple of inconclusive summits with Trump, North Korean leader Marshal Kim Jong Un is now pivoting and meeting with Vladimir Putin in what is being dubbed the Kim-Putin Summit. While the current leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Kor …
News: Eritrea unilaterally closes land borders with Ethiopia
24 April 2019 / by Pier Doyon
Less than a year after it signed a peace declaration with Ethiopia and opened up its land borders, Eritrea closed its last open land border yesterday. Positive gestures were made in 2018 towards the normalization of the relationship between the two cou …
What Is Hwanggumpyong Island?
23 April 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
Cute islands in the middle of rivers like Hwanggumpyong Island might have romantic overtones, but more often than not they can prove to be right royal pains in the ass! There have been more than a few conflicts over useless rocks over the years. On the …
