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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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€395 / €790

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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Introduction Who are the Stan countries? You will hear lots of talk about the Stans, not Stan Laurel, or other men named Stan you u …

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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.

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#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.

#YPTHistory Members from the delegation of the Peo

#YPTHistory Members from the delegation of the People's movement for the liberation of Angola laying a wreath at Lenin's mausoleum in Moscow. USSR, 1976.

We're eagerly counting down the days until we can

We're eagerly counting down the days until we can return to running our unrivalled tours to the breakaway state of Transnistria. A place where Lenin still stands and one which has been branded as one of the last corners of the Soviet Union. Stay tuned for our return to this magical and surreal place!

One of our Soviet Europe team just discovered this

One of our Soviet Europe team just discovered this communist relic on a evening walk in Bulgaria. It's dedicated to revolutionaries who escaped trial in the kingdom of Bulgaria. After sailing a boat to Odessa, they made it to the Soviet Union. They would return over twenty years later when the kingdom of Bulgaria fell to communism. An interesting piece of history. 🇧🇬

Young cadets marching at the iconic Brest Fortress

Young cadets marching at the iconic Brest Fortress, Belarus. One of the most brutal battle sites of WW2. This photo was taken on one of our many private tours to the little visited country of Belarus: known as the last corner of the Soviet Union. 🇧🇾

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