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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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Top 10 Soviet Movies to watch in lockdown
May 4, 2020 / by Joel Gallagher
In these unprecedented times, it’s important to stay sane in lockdown. For those of you who are fans of travelling throughout the former Soviet Union with us, we decided to give you a virtual fix of Soviet weirdness by providing a list of the top 5 Sov …
COVID-19 Travel Update: China Lifts Travel Ban on Certain Nationalities
May 4, 2020 / by YPT Team
As of May 1st, 2020, China and South Korea reached an agreement to allow travellers from South Korea to enter China for business purposes. These requirements of travellers include those from business, logistics, industrial production and technical serv …
National Heroes of Central Asia – Tajikistan – Ismoil Somoni
May 3, 2020 / by Ben Crowley
During the Soviet Union, people worshipped Lenin, Marx, Stalin and even their local communist leaders such as Frunze. When the Soviet Union collapsed each country needed to find new national heroes. The rest of the world does it, the Scandinavians have …
What’s it like riding the train to Tibet
May 3, 2020 / by David Stone
On board the highest train in the world YPTer David Stone describes his experience travelling to Tibet last year They say that time runs slowly on the railway to heaven. Not least when your iPad, packed full of movies and tv shows, decides to break a f …
We watched a football match in North Korea: Hang Yuen FC VS April 25 Sports Club
May 3, 2020 / by David Stone
As someone who actively seeks out local football matches to visit whenever I am travelling abroad, I couldn’t pass on the opportunity to attend a football match in North Korea whilst on an excellent Political Interest Tour with YPT last year. It was a …
Happy May Day and 12th Birthday to YPT!
May 1, 2020 / by YPT Team
Pictured Above: May 1st, 2008 our first group takes a stroll through Moran Hill, Pyongyang Today marks two worldwide monumental events, the 134th International Workers Day, but even more profoundly the 12th birthday of Young Pioneer Tours! Why is this …
President of North Korea
May 1, 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
Who is North Korea’s President? The official President of North Korea is Kim Il Sung, who died in 1994. How does that work? We are happy to explain! North Korea, officially the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (check out the meaning of that here) …
National Airlines of Central Asia
May 1, 2020 / by Ben Crowley
This is one for the airline nerds out there. The first thing that needs to be clear is airline nerds are a different breed from aviation nerds. There are many who barely know the cockpit from the tail but yet love to know about airlines, airline servic …
Panjshir – One of the best places to travel in Afghanistan
May 1, 2020 / by Ben Crowley
Firstly, we have to stipulate that this is in the context to travelling to Afghanistan. It’s certainly not the same as Island Hopping in South East Asia, or visiting all the cultural places of Europe. It is Afghanistan after all which is regularly rate …
