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Welcome to the Young Pioneer Tours blog about everything North Korea, and all of our other special off the beaten the track destinations.
Since starting in 2008 we have seen blogging about North Korea and our other great destinations as a great way to engage with our customers and to show the world a slice of life in the great destinations we visit.
Due to the mass amount of great content we create, as well as receive from our Pioneers we have since started our travel lifestyle magazine “The Young Pioneer”.
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Nouadhibou : A City Guide
January 28, 2020 / by Pier Doyon
Nouadhibou is the second most important city of Mauritania. Located at the north of the country, less than an hour driving from the wild border between Morocco and Mauritania, controlled by Western Sahara, it is an important fishing port of the west co …
Birdwatching in North Korea
January 27, 2020 / by John McGovern
When it comes to a trip to the DPRK you may be thinking about political and historical sights, factories and collective farms, the border with South Korea at the DMZ. You may even be thinking about a trip to the beach at Wonsan or a hike in the Kumgang …
Mansudae Grand Monument
January 27, 2020 / by Troy Collings
The Mansudae Grand Monument is one of the most iconic spots in Pyongyang and features two enormous bronze statues of the former leaders, President Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il, The monument also includes a mural of Mt Paektu shown behind them, w …
CONIFA WORLD CUP 2020 GROUP STAGE DRAW
January 27, 2020 / by Sion
As we continue our coverage of the CONIFA World Cup 2020 in Skopje, the group stage draw for the finals were made this week and it’s thrown up some absolute corkers! It’s difficult to argue against Group D being the so called ‘Group Of Death’, pitting …
Travelling to America after a tour to the DPRK… getting a tourist visa is easy!
January 27, 2020 / by YPT Team
Guest blog by Pioneer Joseph Harrison, a British guy living and teaching in China with an exotic taste in travel! He describes his experience getting a US tourist visa after his tour to the DPRK meant he couldn’t use the ESTA. Read more in his blog Des …
Socialist Countries
January 25, 2020 / by Dominic Perry
Socialism may be something of a far-off concept as an existing thing for younger readers. The Soviet Bloc collapsed at the end of the 80s through to the start of the 90s and everything else seemed to fall with it. When it seemed that socialism was pois …
Maunsell Forts: Knock John
January 24, 2020 / by Gareth
Maunsell Forts We’ve previously written about Roughs Tower/AKA Sealand as well as Red Sands, both of which fall under the weird category of Maunsell Forts. Now whilst Roughs became its own country and Red Sands has a group trying to preserve it, Knock …
Birobidzhan: the Soviet Zion
January 23, 2020 / by Joel Gallagher
Of all the stops of the famous Trans-Siberian railway, there are few as little-known as Birobidzhan – the only officially Yiddish-speaking republic that has ever existed. Located in Siberia near the Russia-China border, Birobidzhan is the center of Rus …
The Battle of Stalingrad
January 23, 2020 / by Joel Gallagher
The Battle of Stalingrad was the most brutal and bloodthirsty battle in human history. With our upcoming tour to Chechnya and Stalingrad, we decided to provide a proper look into this hellish fight between the Soviet Union and the Third Reich that clai …
