Young Pioneer Tours is at the forefront of bringing you to obscure destinations on a budget without compromising the quality or your experience. However many of our most popular destinations are countries sanctioned by the USA and the wider global communities – which warns against all travel. One of the most frequently asked questions to […]

As of the 24th March 2024 Libya launched a groundbreaking new Libya tourist e-visa scheme which makes visiting Libya a lot more accessible for tourists wanting to explore the country. Previously the State of Libya was one of the most complicated countries to visit as a tourist. Tales of extreme bureaucracy and complicated manoeuvres were […]

Since the fall of Colonel Gaddafi in 2011, Libya has for many years been completely off limits to tourists. Now that the country is finally experiencing some relative stability, and with a new tourist e-visa scheme, we here at YPT are very excited to introduce our Libya Tour: Gaddafi’s Legacy. Your tour with us begins […]

Since the fall of Colonel Gaddafi in 2011, Libya has for many years been completely off limits to tourists. Now that the country is finally experiencing some relative stability, and with a new tourist e-visa scheme, we here at YPT are very excited to introduce our Libya Tour: Gaddafi’s Legacy. Your tour with us begins […]

The process to visit Libya has been made considerably easier as of 20 April 2023 with the launch of not only a Libyan visa on arrival scheme, but also an actual tourist visa, as well as Americans and Russians now being allowed on tours. Travel update: As of August 2023, the visa on arrival scheme […]

At YPT we can be very pedantic about what counts as a country, BUT in the interests of this article we are talking about genuinely fake countries, as in invented by movies, or the like. We have though also only included ones that YPT would actually go to, who sorry Princess Diaries, but you do […]

Can you travel to Libya? The short answer is that yes, you can, although it is not advised by many travel advisories and is far from a simple process. YPT will go through the process of how you can travel to Libya. To read about which countries are open travel click here. Can you travel […]

Libya Tours 2021 – 2022. Young Pioneer Tours are now running regular group tours to Libya, as well as offering independent Libya Tours. Read our itinerary and get in touch to travel to Libya.

We’re going to do two things here. We’re going to give you info you can use and we’re going to give you info that has no practical purpose, but you’ll maybe feel a bit smarter for knowing it, or at least raise a curious eyebrow. Libyan currency is a surprisingly interesting topic, especially given its […]

Safest Countries in Africa: The second largest continent in the world is rarely at the top of most people’s list with countries to visit. The reasons for this often include health concerns such as the risk of being infected with malaria or dengue and the lack of medical institutions to treat any urgent health matters […]