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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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How to get from Ireland to North Korea
6 December 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
With the utmost excitement regarding another year of Young Pioneer Tours being the only company to celebrate St Patricks Day in North Korea, we have decided to compile an article detailing the best way to travel from Ireland (north and south) to the DP …
A study of the world’s most dangerous countries for LGBTQ+ travel reveals the good, the average and the utterly grotesque
5 December 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
Guest article by Hannelore Oberbauer, student at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Instead of relying on hearsay and anecdotes from other travelers, we took a deep look at LGBTQ+ rights, country by country. We’ve gathered data from a variety of truste …
Bishkek Restaurants: Hipster Central (Asia)
5 December 2019 / by Ben Crowley
You’ve been travelling around Central Asia for a few weeks/months/years. You’ve driven the Pamir Highway and been out hiking in the Kyrgyz mountains. You’ve been sleeping in yurts beside epic mountain lakes, walking along glaciers and looking for snow …
Pyongyang Friendship Hospital
5 December 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
If you are for whatever reason unlucky enough to have an accident or get sick in North Korea, you may be required to visit the Pyongyang Friendship hospital, the hospital set up to deal with foreigners in Pyongyang. I consider myself one of the experts …
The Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front (AINDF)
5 December 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
The Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front is a banned organization in southern Korea that is guided by the ideals of Juche and aims to foment a popular revolution, ideally resulting in the overthrow of the capitalist system and the removal of the …
Workers Party of Korea
5 December 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
The Workers Party of Korea are famously leading party in North Korea, but whilst North Korea, or to be more precise, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is often characterized as a one-party state. This is actually not the case. In the Supreme Pe …
Independent Korean Language Study Tours
4 December 2019 / by Nicolas Platt
Following on from the success of our previous Pyongyang study group tours, we are able to arrange with Kim Hyong Jik Teaching University – one of the top Universities in Pyongyang – to allow independent study courses in Pyongyang, North Korea. This par …
The Siege of Sarajevo
3 December 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
“There are no atheists in my van,” cracked our guide, Almir, early on in our tour of Sarajevo and its environs. He was making a joke about his driving, but it didn’t seem to be a coincidence that he used this particular phrase on this particular tour. …
The Socotra Guide
3 December 2019 / by Pier Doyon
If you are a country collector, then Yemen is notoriously one of the hardest countries to tick off the list, but worry no more! Young Pioneer Tours have just returned from our third trip to Socotra, another rip-roaring success, and a tour we shall be r …
