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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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Is it safe to travel to Bangladesh?
2 October 2019 / by Pier Doyon
While India and Nepal has been on people’s travel radar for decades, Bangladesh, their neighbor and brother, is often ignored. While it is much smaller, Bangladesh makes for an exciting adventure and offers a lot to do that can’t really be found elsewh …
How to Get a South Ossetia Passport Stamp?
1 October 2019 / by Pier Doyon
Every year, our Soviet Europe team lead countless trips into the post-Soviet breakaway states of Abkhazia, Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh and South Ossetia. A common question from our guests is in regards to the passport stamps of breakaway countries, …
Airlines of the Pacific : Air Niugini
1 October 2019 / by Pier Doyon
When it comes to travelling in the Pacific, one Airline is becoming more and more of a big player. That airline is Air Niugini. The national airlines of Papua New Guinea has a fleet bigger than any of the other nations of the Pacific (with the exceptio …
Docking at Ittoqqortoormiit (that’s easy for you to say)
30 September 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
Nature is nature. But there really is only so many times that you can see an iceberg – or even something as spectacular as the Northern lights – without getting fatigue from it. My main reason for being on this trip was to be the ‘guide’, or in this in …
Ittoqqortoormiit – the Full Guide
30 September 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
Ittoqqortoormiit is one of the least visited places in one of the most remote places on earth. YPT have therefore decided to write a guide to it! How many people live in Ittoqqortoormiit? 452 according to Wikipedia, although we saw a lot of babies, so …
A Greenland cruise – to the ship and beyond
30 September 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
Day one of the Young Pioneer Tours Greenland cruise started in typical YPT fashion with our group meeting at 6pm in the Lebowski bar, before heading off on a pub crawl that involved eating the infamous hakarl, drinking the local liquor, and staying up …
My first Bangladesh Tour
30 September 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
To say that I caught the travel bug fairly early would be a bit of an understatement. My first trip abroad (without my family) was in 1996, when a fifteen-year-old me when to Bangladesh. Why, you might ask, would I visit Bangladesh at such a tender age …
How to get a visa for Saudi Arabia
28 September 2019 / by Rowan Beard
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia used to be one of the toughest countries to visit as a tourist. Tales of extreme bureaucracy and difficult manoeuvres were quite common for non-Muslims who wanted to travel and explore the closed-off country. As of September …
Saudi Arabia starts giving tourism e-visas to over 50 nationalities
28 September 2019 / by Pier Doyon
the main page of the saudi e-visa website Saudi Arabia, the long out-of-reach kingdom, birthplace of Islam. It has been on travellers bucketlist for a very long time but, until very recently, it was one of the hardest countries to get into due to a ver …
