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Welcome to the Young Pioneer Tours Blog, the place where we we keep you informed about everything YPT, from current tours, to future tours and a whole lot of eclectic stuff in between.
YPT first started blogging in 2008 and are considered the best North Korean Travel blog that there is.
But, as Young Pioneer Tours have expanded our locations, so have we expanded our blog. Now we have one of the best travel blogs in the world!
And while most of our content is about the numerous destinations we go, including travel guides and what to pack, we also delve into more serious subjects such as the safety of certain destinations, as well as how LGTBQ+ friendly the places we visit are.
While the vast majority of our content is produced in-house, we are always on the look-out for guest bloggers and writers. Want to write for us? Then simply get in touch.
You can also check out our sister publication YPT Life.
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Sinchon Massacre Museum
24 May 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
Introduction to the Sinchon Massacre Museum The Sinchon Massacre Museum of American War Atrocities! To give it its full title. This is probably the most macabre place you can visit in North Korea. When you consider quite how seriously the DPRK take the …
Bhutan Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)
24 May 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
Bhutan is often painted (much like Tibet) as a kind of Buddhist utopia where everyone prays and is really happy. I mean ,they even measure Gross Domestic Happiness right? Well, the situation on the ground is a bit different. Introducing the Bhutan Comm …
King of Bhutan
24 May 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
Did you know that the King of Bhutan was the last last absolute monarch to willingly give up power? In the modern world， there are far less countries governed by monarchies than are republics. When we think of monarchies we tend to think of them as wri …
Flag of Syria
21 May 2020 / by YPT Team
With the recent overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria and the rapid expansion of HTS (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham), the official Flag of Syria has been removed and replaced with a similar flag, however it replaces the red with green and there is an extra sta …
Wondrous deserts of Egypt
21 May 2020 / by Pier Doyon
Few countries are as iconic to travelling as Egypt. When thinking about the cliche of the traveller, you might have the Taj Mahal of Indian, the Great Wall of China or the Parthenon of Greece in mind but the Pyramids of Egypt are never far in mind. It …
Football in China
20 May 2020 / by John McGovern
There’s a Chinese joke that goes something like this. A young man is sitting alone in his room and decides to watch some porn. He draws the curtains, turns on his laptop and sits down watching. Suddenly there’s a knock at the door, he hits a button on …
Things to do in Western Sahara
20 May 2020 / by Pier Doyon
As the largest unrecognized country in the world, it was certain that Young Pioneer Tours would develop quite the expertise when it comes to Western Sahara. As a vast swath of barely inhabitable desert, you could be forgiven for wondering if there are …
Football in Bir Tawil
20 May 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
We’ve recently been on a frenzy of blogs on football in weird destinations, one of which was Sudan (not to be confused with fictional Kingdom of North Sudan). I’ve therefore decided to up the ante by doing a blog on football in Bir Tawil! So, what is B …
Transnistria Tours 2024
19 May 2020 / by Joel Vostok
As 2023 seems more cursed by the day, the optimistic amongst us will be using the time to prep their travel plans for when we can move again. To give you some inspiration on where to travel with us in 2024, when we’ve hopefully overcome this horrid vir …
