YPT tours to Cambodia After years of strife and civil war, Cambodia is fast becoming one of the top destinations for backpackers and package tourists alike. At Young Pioneer Tours, we love Cambodia and have been arranging Cambodia Independent Tours, groups and weekend events here for many years. Cambodia of course can be traveled independently, […]

Young Pioneer Tours are happy to announce that we will be continuing to support grass roots football in Cambodia through our sponsorship of Next Step FC for the 2025-26 Cambodian Premier League 2 season. To read about the Cambodian Premier League click here Who are Next Step FC? Next Step FC were founded as a […]

At YPT we truly love a train journey, but it would be true to say that not all are created equal. We have therefore put together our 10 most epic train journeys in the world, at least in our opinion.  How to pick the most epic train journeys in the world? For us at least […]

We’re very happy to be back on the road and done our first tour. COVID-19 shook the world earlier this year grounding the majority of international flights and grinding tourism to an absolute standstill. Travel pockets have been created to encourage tourism in regions deemed safe to accept domestic travellers such as Europe for our […]

You do not need a degree in geography to realise Timor-Leste is surrounded by ocean. It has beautiful beaches, coral reefs, and a tropical climate. It is located in Southeast Asia, just north of Australia and right next to Indonesia. On paper, it should be a dream destination. But hardly anyone is visiting Timor-Leste. So […]

The Khmer Krom, or as they are also known the Kampuchea Krom are ethic Cambodians that have lived for generations in what is currently considered Vietnam. Most of them reside in what was South Vietnam. Many, particularly those that live near the borders of Cambodia still enjoy rich familial and cultural links with Cambodia, while […]

At Young Pioneer Tours we love a former country, particularly if it was very brief, strange and you can still visit there. We present the Samdech Euv Autonomous Zone. So, what the Samdech Euv Autonomous Zone? Essentially it was a secessionist state in eastern Cambodia born from the controversial 1993 elections. Prelude to to the […]

It’s not every day that you get to talk to the President of a country, but that is exactly what I did yesterday via my work with Cambodia Investment Review. President Jose Ramos-Horta won the nations presidential election by a landslide 62 percent of votes cast, after which I was lucky enough to get a […]

Our final article in this series will deal with the last days of the Khmer Rouge. What’s more, this article is going live on the 17th of April, the anniversary of the Khmer Rouge’s seizing of power! Feel free to take a moment of silence for the victims or celebrate in a barren field of […]

If you’re just joining us, don’t forget to check out part 1 of this insanely long odyssey exploring the history and ideals of the infamous Khmer Rouge. In part 1, we explored how the Khmer Rouge came to be, the context of Cambodia and led right up to the official start of the civil war, […]