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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”.
We’re always looking for contributors to our sites, so feel free to browse through our blogs, and , get in touch if you’d like to write for us.
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The Pioneer Podcast Episode 1
March 3, 2021 / by YPT Team
The Pioneer Podcast is a part of a larger new venture between Young Pioneer Tours, Pioneer Media, and other adventure travel-related publications to be called YPT.life. The aim of YPT.life will be to deliver premium one-of-a-kind content that is availa …
EU to introduce Digital Pass for travel
March 2, 2021 / by Gareth Johnson
The EU have announced that they are working on a digital pass to facilitate travel throughout the EU this summer and beyond. The European Commission has said it will present a legislative plan later this month for what it’s calling a “digital green pas …
Cambodia enters lockdown after spike in Covid cases
February 25, 2021 / by Gareth Johnson
Cambodia enters lockdown after spike in Covid cases. For the longest time living in Cambodia has felt like living in a bubble whilst we watched the rest of the world deal with Covid-19, but with a recent surge in community cases, is that bubble about t …
The Mauritanian Dictatorship
February 20, 2021 / by Dominic Perry
Colonialism in Africa was and is, across the board, ruthless and deplorable. Native peoples were made second class citizens on their own soil, their resources were ripped from the very Earth and any hope for competitive economic development with the ra …
Currency of Morocco
February 12, 2021 / by Matthew Brook
The official currency of Morocco is the Moroccan Dirham. Here are the basics: One Dirham is divided into 100 centimes. Official international code: MAD. Dirham symbol: DH Background When most of Morocco became a French protectorate in 1912, the Morocca …
Top 5 Dark Tourism in Nauru spots
February 12, 2021 / by Gareth Johnson
Dark Tourism in Nauru Nauru is the least visited country on earth, it is also a mainstay of our tour calendar and as such we have written a lot about the country. Why is Nauru the least visited country on earth? There are a few reasons, mostly location …
Visiting Nan Madol in Pohnpei
February 11, 2021 / by Gareth Johnson
Visiting Nan Madol is one of the highlights of traveling to Pohnpei, the capital “island” of the Federated States of Micronesia. There are a lot of cool things about YPT; principal among them that compared to other countries we truly get off the beaten …
Cuba further opens economy to private businesses
February 11, 2021 / by Gareth Johnson
Cuba further opens economy to private businesses in biggest shake up since the revolution. In the polarized politics of America, you find people like Obama and Joe Biden being called socialist and communist. Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia have also b …
