Young Pioneer Tours

Specialty Tours

If budget isn’t your concern, we offer a number of other tailor made tours. 18 holes of golf? Watching a game of footie? Visiting hospitals and schools? Within reason, we have a large scope, offering a tour to suit your interests.

The following is a list of potential tours. All of these tours would be supplemented with your choice of the standard DPRK sites.

If you are interested in any of the following, a mixture of, or something completely different, get in touch with us for a quote. Prices obviously depend on numbers, duration, and what you want to do, exactly.

For more information, please contact Enquiries@YoungPioneerTours.com.

Sporting Tour

18 holes of golf, 9 holes of pitch and putt, ice-skating, live football match (depending on time DPRK national team events), playing football in the national stadium, bowling, shooting range (live chickens). Other sports available on request.

Cultural Tour

Pyongyang Maternity Hospital, Co-Operative farm, school visit, school children’s palace.

City Buster Tour

Pyongyang, Kaesong, Nampho/Wonson, Mt. Myohyang (International Friendship Exhibition). For shorter trips Nampho and Wonson are interchangeable. We stay overnight in all the cities visited.

Mt. Paekdu

Visit one of the most beautiful mountains in the world by charter flight from Pyongyang. Stay in a North Korean home stay program.

Drinking Tour

Sinuiju MicroBrewery, Rakwon Beer Bar, Bar Street, Pyongyang Pub crawl (visiting 5 Pyongyang hotel bars), Pyongyangs only nightclub, casino, KTV.

Longest Train Journey in the World!

The Saturday train from Pyongyang – Beijing links up with the Trans-Siberian railway. It is possible to take the train all the way from Pyongyang – Moscow. And at 10 days it is the currently the longest passenger train journey in the world. Prices available on request. You will need to independently arrange your own Russian visa for this option.

Prices and alternative itineraries available on request. Contact Enquiries@YoungPioneerTours.com for more information.

LATEST NEWS

End of Another Tour :(

Well we just returned from our wonderful first Arirang Tour of the year. 25 people 14 different countries represented, and some really great fun had by all! We did not even let the small matter of floods get in the way of our fun and managed to circumvent them by taking a bus from Dandong to Shenyang, jumping back on a train and even getting home an hour early! Expect some fresh pictures soon. We still have lots of space left on our September tours, so get in touch now!

Mt Kumgang and Hamhung opened to tours

We are happy to announce the oppening of two destinations available to our tours. The first is Mt Kumgang resort, which was previously ran through South Korea. Our June group were lucky enough to be one of the first group of tourists allowed in this area through the Northern side. This is now available as an option for all independent tours. Hamhung on the east coast of Korea is also now open to our tours, with us planning to take our first group there this September. It is also available for all independent tours, although some restrictions still apply to US and Japanese passport holders. For more details please e-mail us.

June Football tour

We have just returned from a very succesful football tour, where we had the chance to play football with kids at Kim Il Sung, and Yanggakdo Stadiums, get interviewed about the World Cup,and watch the Brazil and Portugal games with Koreans in local bars. That being said the Brazil game went down a little better than the Portugal one. Due to the success of the tour we will be running another football based tour in 2011 to coincide with the domestic DPRK football season.

End of year tour to Rason announced.

Get truly of the beaten track with our tour to Rason in North-Eastern Korea bordering China and Russia, truly one of the worlds least visited places.. Click for more details

D.P.R.K Revisited Tour

Due to interest from a number of previous guests we have decided to run a tour aimed at those visiting the country for a second time. We not only pack in a lot of new places with this tour, but also take you back to the "must see" sites such as the DMZ, Mausoleum, and Arirang. All previous guests are entitled to a discount, as are those booking as a group. We already have a lot of people signed up for this tour, so get in quick!

September Arirang Tour Now extended

Due to increased interest we have decided to offer an extended optional extra two days on to our September/October Arirang Tour. We are now offering a 6 night 7 day, plus 2 nights on the train for 1170, with discounts ofr all groups. For those living, or working in China this tour will take place during the October National day holidays, a golden week to get away.

Visa free travel to Rason with YPT

We can now offer tours to the Rason Special Economic Zone in north-east Korea bordering Russia and China. We have a group tour planned for mid October. For prices and information about going please click here.

US Nationals now allowed all year round!

The DPRK has lifted restrictions regarding Americans, and they may now enter the country anytime throughout the year! Although there are still a few restrictions, contact Tours@YoungPioneerTours.com for more details.