Join our tour group to the once notoriously hard to access Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which has only recently opened up to tourism and offers a new tourist visa programme for 51 nationalities. Our tour begins in the capital city, Riyadh, where you’ll explore the modern centre of Saudi Arabia as well as its ancient […]

Join us on our Kaliningrad Tour for a summer trip you’ll not forget! Infamously known as the ‘most militarized zone in Europe’ and home to the formidable Russian Baltic Sea Fleet, the exclave of Kaliningrad is shrouded in secrecy. Being a closed Soviet military region for decades and being still laced with nuclear missiles, warships […]

Whilst it is largely known for being a vacation resort for British and European holidaymakers, following the Turkish invasion of 1974, the Mediterranean island of Cyprus was ravaged by war before being cut in half with a UN-designated buffer zone in the middle. This zone incorporated towns, cities, airports making them abandoned ghost settlements to […]

This tour coincides with not only the Transnistrian National Day celebrations, but the only Soviet-style military parade left in Europe! Officially known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), and often referred to as the last state of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is one of the four unrecognised countries and frozen conflict zones that litter the […]

Join YPT on a bespoke Svalbard tour in September 2026, visiting Russian settlements and abandoned coal mining outposts turned ghost towns in the northern reaches of the world! Our group tour starts in Longyearbyen, the world’s northernmost settlement with a population greater than 1,000, which despite its location – less than 1,000km from the North […]

Join YPT for a incredible trip to Eastern Greenland and take in all the sea, ice, wildlife and hopefully the Northern Lights! This year we will visit Eastern Greenland aboard the very comfortable Ortelius. On this trip, we will first meet up in the capital city of Reykjavik before we head out to board our […]

Following the immense success of the last editions of this trip, YPT presents the seventh version of our essential adventure for all country collectors. Here we visit 11 countries and territories in just under one month, including six of the least visited countries in the world (excluding micronations, of course), including: Nauru, Tuvalu, Marshall Islands, […]

Akwaaba (welcome) to Ghana, one of the friendliest countries in West Africa, offering a perfect combination of history, culture, and natural beauty. This new and exclusive YPT trip, following our Benin and Togo Voodoo Trails Adventure, will allow you to discover the legacy of Ghana’s Gold Coast, shaped by colonial powers and the dramatic transatlantic […]

While Japan might be seen as being well on the tourist trail, there is a whole other deeper, darker and -dare we say- weirder side to the country that we have decided to explore in our Extremes of Japan Tour. The trip begins with right at the end of our Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant […]

Picture yourself arriving in a zone so trampled by thousands of elephants that it’s visible from space, witnessing the parades of those majestic animals for a few hours, and continuing deep into the jungle to encounter lowland gorillas in their natural habitat. Imagine driving through the rainforest for hundreds of kilometres, and then being welcomed […]