Coronavirus travel update. Welcome to the YPT COVID-19 / Coronavirus travel updates page. With this page we aim to give up to date travel advice on which countries are open to tourism during the current pandemic. As you might imagine one of the most frequent questions we are getting asked right now is which countries […]

We recently did a post on Facebook whereby we asked what countries it was that Young Pioneer Tours should go to as future destinations. One of those suggested was Sealand, so we asked the obvious question, can you travel to Sealand and we got a reply! And not just a reply, but one from the […]

North Korea to close embassies around the world, with the latest being its mission in Spain according to recent reports. Why are they being closed and what will it mean for travel once the country does reopen to tourism? To read about when North Korea will open to tourism click here. Spanish Embassy to close […]

In news that those of us involved in Pacific Island travel have been anxiously awaiting the international border crossing between Bougainville and Solomon Islands has been reopened. This fantastic news means that you will now be able to travel from the Autonomous Province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea to The Solomon Islands, a country […]

North Korea to raise prices and chnage currencies from the Euro to the USD, according to recent reports coming from both within and outside of the country. While the DPRK is not yet open to tourism, nor do we have any concrete information of when this might happen, we have been are being made aware […]

Young Pioneer Tours are one of the only companies to offer Bougainville Tours to group and independent pioneers, something we have been doing since 2019. Seeped in beauty and with some of the most welcoming people on earth, and with the potential to be thee worlds newest country, now really is the time to visit […]

Despite being the least visited country in Europe, Moldova is still a great off the beaten track place to travel. Young Pioneer Tours brought their first group tour to Moldova back in 2010 and since then it has been one of our mots popular tours. And this is not supersizing, with the country having the […]

As of October 2023, the visa on arrival scheme in Angola has been extended to a whopping 98 countries in a move that is expected to help boost tourist numbers to the Southern African nation. Previously, Angola has gone through a communist regime and most recently a bitter civil war has been renowned for just […]

With us now having launched our Least Visited countries Tour for 2023-24, many may have noticed some parts have changed, so why have we done that? Quite simply, that is how things roll in these parts….. Least Visited Countries Tour Part One This one takes us to Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam and […]

A few hours ago, a group of extraordinary women and I boarded our flight from Kabul to Dubai, landing safely now (11:07 pm, 11th of July 2023), symbolising a successful expedition to Afghanistan as the first all-women tour since the Taliban takeover. As we sat in the waiting area of the Kabul airport for our […]