What better way to follow up a trip to the Magadan Soviet Gulag than to journey with YPT to Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO) – Birobidzhan – the Soviet Zion? Set in Russia’s far east and bordering China’s northeastern province of Heilongjiang, Birobidzhan was set up as an autonomous Oblast for Jewish people by Stalin […]

Join YPT for full-on urban exploration in the ghost city of Kangbashi! If you’ve ever spent any time in a Chinese city you’ll be well used to the throng, walking the night markets where it seems like every conceivable snack is on offer or pushing your way through people trying to sell you things outside […]

Join YPT for full-on urban exploration in the ghost city of Kangbashi! If you’ve ever spent any time in a Chinese city you’ll be well used to the throng, walking the night markets where it seems like every conceivable snack is on offer or pushing your way through people trying to sell you things outside […]

Join YPT, as we travel on one of our signature trips, to Iraqi Kurdistan to welcome in Spring 2025 and celebrate the Newroz festival on our Iraqi Kurdistan Newroz Festival Tour! A prospective new nation protected by the Peshmerga which were at the forefront of the fight with ISIS.  Despite its significance and proximity to […]

Join YPT for full-on urban exploration in the ghost city of Kangbashi! If you’ve ever spent any time in a Chinese city you’ll be well used to the throng, walking the night markets where it seems like every conceivable snack is on offer or pushing your way through people trying to sell you things outside […]

Join YPT as we take you to Iraqi Kurdistan, a prospective new nation protected by the Peshmerga which were at the forefront of the fight with ISIS. Despite its significance and proximity to probably the tensest area in the world, Kurdistan offers not only safety, but beautiful scenery, famed in Middle Eastern literature as a […]

YPT are proud to announce the Arabian Sea mega combo, from the Yemeni island of Socotra to Somaliland & Eritrea! Join us for a truly off the beaten track experience to two of the planet’s least visited destinations – Somaliland and Eritrea – and one of the most unique islands on the planet – Socotra. We […]

Join our Socotra Yemen Island Tour as we will be taking the Yemenia Airways flight from Cairo, to Hadibu, Socotra via Aden in mainland Yemen. Suffering civil war, coups, revolutions and bombings in recent years, the Republic of Yemen is generally off the radar for tourists. Unless, that is, you know about the island of […]

YPT doesn’t only take you to some of the least explored countries of the world: we also take you well off the beaten track in some of the more popular destinations! And so, we head to Cambodia for our Dark Tourism tour. We make use of our extensive knowledge of the country, after living here […]

Beginning with the Buzkashi Horse Games or known as the “dead goat polo” in the National Hippodrome in Bishkek, this tour kicks off with Kyrgyzstan’s unique Independence Day events. After experiencing some amazing national music, dance and food during the celebrations, we’ll leave Bishkek, and make our way into the phenomenal countryside of Kyrgyzstan, experiencing […]