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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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The day when North Korea thwarted a coup d’etat in Benin
19 February 2020 / by Pier Doyon
Clearly, this article’s title is a massive clickbait but sometimes, events are so surprising that they are worth their own article on our blog, such is the curious event that happened on the 16th of January 1977. Yes, if general Mathieu Kérékou stayed …
Chagos Islands CONIFA World Football Cup Fundraiser
18 February 2020 / by YPT Team
You may have heard by now that YPT has teamed up with CONIFA to be the official travel partner of the Confederation of Independent Football Associations and we are starting to get excited about the World Cup this May. In the World Cup, we will obviousl …
Western Sahara – Football Team Profile
18 February 2020 / by
Western Sahara Outline Hundreds of miles of coastline, plenty of sand, year-round sunshine and cheap prices – sounds like anyone’s idea of paradise, right? Except there’s a catch: this country doesn’t actually exist! Welcome to Western Sahara. Situated …
Chagos Islands – Football Team Profile
18 February 2020 / by
Chagos Islands Outline Situated slap bang in the middle of nowhere, somewhere in the Indian Ocean. The Chagos Islands are a group of seven atolls and around 60 individual tropical islands surrounded by crystal clear blue waters, and soft golden s …
Darfur – Football Team Profile
18 February 2020 / by
An outline of Darfur If you thought the conflict in Western Sahara was wild, strap yourselves into this one. Welcome to Darfur! Darfur is a region of around 9.5m people, approximately the size of Spain in the western part of Sudan. The region is the me …
Koreans in Central Asia
18 February 2020 / by YPT Team
Whenever we’re on tour in Central Asia, most people are amazed at the ethnic diversity. They’re usually shocked at how many Russians, Ukrainians, Belarussians, and Germans still live in Central Asia, and how ‘East Asian’ or ‘Middle Eastern’ a lot of th …
Nowruz in Central Asia
18 February 2020 / by YPT Team
History of Nowruz in Central Asia Nowruz in Central Asia has been celebrated for thousands of years – at least three thousand based on historical evidence, but possibly even longer, and the celebration shares many of the same attributes that are usuall …
Is North Korea really like Crash Landing on you?
16 February 2020 / by YPT Team
One of South Korea’s highest-rated and controversial drama cable television shows crash landing on you is coming to an end tonight. For those unfamiliar with the series, it tells the story of a South Korea Heiress (played by Son Ye Jin) and a North Kor …
The Chagos Islands
13 February 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
History is strewn with people screwed over by humanity. Armenians, Jews and Kurds to name but a few. But one group of people being screwed right now that almost no one knows about is the people of the Chagos Islands. The Chagos Islands, also known as t …
