YPT is known to like a bit of specialist communist ideology, and it doesn’t get more specialist than this! From 1996 to 2006 the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) fought a ten-year People’s War against the King and, for the most part, the parliamentary parties. They created communist base areas and fought on the basis […]

Join us for our annual trip to the Palawan, which has been voted the best island many times in recent years as we explore the amazing Bacuit Archipelago on our private party outrigger. The trip begins with the group meeting in Ermita, Manila where we head out to see the sites of this bustling metropolis […]

On our 2025 Mount Hagen Festival Tour, now a yearly classic, YPT will be making the most out of one of the most remote parts of the world and partaking in the festival celebrations allowing you to see the traditional Papua New Guinean life in all its feathered glory. The Mt. Hagen Festival consists of […]

Starting in Almaty, the cosmopolitan centre of Central Asia and the former Soviet capital of Kazakhstan, this tour winds its way through some of the weirdest and most wonderful parts of Kazakhstan, before eventually finishing in Astana, the country’s new capital, and a showcase to the all-powerful President’s love for unique architecture. On the way, […]

Young Pioneer Tours have always been at the forefront of adventure tourism to unique and sometimes unrecognised destinations. This is your chance to not only visit Chechnya, but explore the entire North Caucasus, including the unrecognised countries of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. In total, you’ll be visiting 6 republics, 2 unrecognised states, 2 federal subjects, […]

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

YPT is delighted to announce the Socotra Arabian Sea Tour for 2024. We will officially be taking advantage of the new flights going from Cairo into Socotra, stopping by Seiyun in Yemen. Suffering civil war, coups, revolutions and bombings in recent years, the country of Yemen is generally off the radar for tourists. Unless, that […]

Join us for our first-ever dedicated skiing tour in Iran! The tour centres on the Dizin Ski Resort, which is the largest ski resort in western Asia and located in the heart of the Alborz mountain range, 75km from Tehran. The high altitude and the climate conditions offer a good length of time for skiing, […]

Join YPT as we introduce our Iran and Iraqi Kurdistan combo tour!  Iran is a destination we know and love well; however, the lesser visited Kurdistan is a prospective new nation protected by the Peshmerga and at the forefront of the fight with ISIS.  Despite its significance and proximity to probably the most important war […]

Join YPT on the Roof of the World for our pilgrimage to Tibet. During this tour, we combine the must-see sights of Lhasa including the Potala Palace, other lesser-known monasteries, as well as the Tibet Museum, where we learn the Chinese interpretation of Tibetan history and the role of British imperialism in the area and […]