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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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Mass Games – Romania Style
April 2, 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
If you are lucky enough to go for beers in the Old Quarter of Bucharest, to places like Care Cu Bere, it would be easy to think that communism had never been a feature of Romania. But stroll along for 10 minutes, or so and then it hits you: Ceausescu-e …
Direct flights to DPRK from Vietnam to begin in June
April 1, 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
Following a surge in bookings following the March DPRK-USA summit in Hanoi, a Vietnamese travel agency has entered into a deal with the Korea International Travel Company (KITC) to charter flights direct from Vietnam to Pyongyang. The official memorand …
Top DPRK officials proclaim the Last Jedi ‘the best of the Star Wars movies’
April 1, 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
Pyongyang, April 1st 2019 In a development sure to add fuel to the fire of Star Wars debates worldwide, the DPRK today proclaimed, after mammoth 20+ hour sessions of Star Wars marathons by top government officials, that ‘The Last Jedi is by far t …
North Korean Restaurants in Shanghai
April 1, 2019 / by Pier Doyon
A question we often get at YPT is : Where can you find North Korean restaurants outside of the DPRK? It’s an understandable question; DPRK restaurants offer an experience that is often very intriguing, a great standard of service and allow you to scrat …
Children’s Day in North Korea
March 28, 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
Children’s Day was not originally named as such, but was instead called the ‘International Day for Protection of Children’ by the Women’s International Democratic Federation. The holiday was originally established in Moscow during the days of the USSR, …
Deluxe Hotels of North Korea
March 27, 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
It is a commonly misunderstood “fact” about North Korea that all tours are the same (we certainly feel ours are different) and that everyone who visits North Korea has to stay at the Yanggakdo Hotel, “the one on the island”. In fact there are not only …
First impressions: Vietnam
March 27, 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
I moved to China in the summer of 2006, largely because I’d always loved visiting new places and because my previous job of ‘debt recovery agent’ (the phoning people up and threatening legal action kind, not the door-kicking kind) was absolutely terrib …
The history of the Cutud Lenten Rites
March 26, 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
Christianity, for better or worse, has travelled far and wide throughout the world, and one of the places it has reached is the Philippines. Adopted by the South-East Asian country due to their recognition of the One True God and in no way a tool of co …
5 places that should be on your Middle East bucket list
March 26, 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
The Middle East gets a way worse rap than it should, and as a result remains criminally under-visited. But this fascinating region remains a wealth of history and culture, and from the ancient ruins of Persepolis in Iran to the Indiana Jones photo ops …
