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Young Pioneer Tours specialise in taking you to North Korea and other worldwide “destinations your mother would rather you stay away from” at budget prices. We combine the best guides in the industry with expert local knowledge and contacts to ensure your adventure is an unparalleled one. Don’t be a face in the crowd, be a Pioneer.

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Belarus: Back in the USSR Tour

Visit the most Soviet of post-Soviet states in Eastern Europe

Start Date : February 19th 2021
End Date : February 25th 2021
Duration: 7 nights, 8 days

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Chernobyl and Transnistria Winter Tour

Journey through the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and an unrecognized Soviet time warp country!

Start Date : February 26th 2021
End Date : March 7th 2021
Duration: 3 days / 10 days

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Iraqi Kurdistan Newroz Festival Tour

Hang out with the Peshmerga and see the last influences of Saddam’s rule in Kurdistan

Start Date : March 15th 2021
End Date : March 21st, 2021
Duration: 6 nights, 7 days

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Quiz Time: who can name this eye-catching building

Quiz Time: who can name this eye-catching building on the banks of the Taedonggang? An important building in Pyongyang, but not a tourist attraction.

#YPTHistory Did you know that Leka Zogu, the exil

#YPTHistory Did you know that Leka Zogu, the exiled prince of Royal Albania and hunted by the communist regime of Enver Hoxha, led a band of armed anti-communist fighters in the Bush War in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)? He went on to outlive Enver Hoxha and return to Albania in the 1990s. 🇦🇱

A mural of the revolutionary opera ‘The Flower G

A mural of the revolutionary opera ‘The Flower Girl’ outside Pyongyang’s Grand Opera House. Many of our walks through downtown Pyongyang start at the opera house and it’s a great spot for people watching and candid street photography. Shot by our guide @sihaywood

#YPTHistory An East German woman applies her makeu

#YPTHistory An East German woman applies her makeup in a classic example of a DDR-era apartment. East Berlin, 1970s. The man on the wall is Erich Ernst Paul Honecker. He was the German communist politician who led East Germany (the German Democratic Republic, or GDR) from 1971 until shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in October 1989. 🇩🇪

Well it’s one year ago today that North Korea cl

Well it’s one year ago today that North Korea closed its borders due to the looming threat of coronavirus. Perhaps you’re feeling as curious as this chap here as to what new things you can expect when borders reopen. To find out what goodies we at YPT have in store for you follow the link in our bio!

#YPTHistory An Ethiopian boy standing In front of

#YPTHistory An Ethiopian boy standing In front of a fallen statue of Lenin. Ethiopia, 1991. 📸 by Dario Mitidieri.

Moranbong band tearing up the stage complete with

Moranbong band tearing up the stage complete with the infamous North Korean snowmen New Years 2019/20! You might be used to seeing Kim Il Sung Square in parades on television, but standing in the square with a bunch of excited and slightly drunken Koreans is another matter entirely. Check out the link in our bio to find out more about the Moranbong band.

#YPTHistory AKS-74U carrying FSK (initial successo

#YPTHistory AKS-74U carrying FSK (initial successor of the KGB) agents in Moscow during the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 which was a political stand-off between the Russian president Boris Yeltsin and the Russian parliament that was resolved by military force.
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Are you impatient to get on a tour to North Korea?

Are you impatient to get on a tour to North Korea? To tide you over until we can all travel back out there again, our guides are putting together a virtual tour, where we will upload photos and videos to our story in real time, so you can get a taste of a typical budget tour to North Korea, a ‘try before you buy’... so to speak. This photo was taken January 1st 2020 by our guide @sihaywood on one of our last tours out to the country before everything locked down.

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