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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”.
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MAKING A NORTH KOREA DOCUMENTARY: CAN I FILM IN THE DPRK?
June 5, 2019 / by Justin Martell
YPT’S GUIDE TO MAKING A NORTH KOREA DOCUMENTARY Planning on making a North Korea documentary? Here’s our comprehensive guide on how to do just that! 1. Don’t try to be VICE — get creative with your North Korea documentary! In the mid-2000s, VICE publi …
Mt Paektu – DPRK Guide
June 3, 2019 / by Rowan Beard
Introduction Whilst Mt Paektu (also spelt Peakdu or known as Paektusan or Paekdusan to the Koreans), is sacred to both North and South Korea and considered the mythological birthplace of the Korean people, it has much a deeper and more recent significa …
Ryomyong Street
June 3, 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
To say that the Pyongyang skyline has changed quite a lot over the last ten years would be quite the understatement. Previously there were much fewer cars, frequent blackouts, and not actually much in the way of a skyline. Nowadays the city is booming …
The North Korean Railway
May 31, 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
If you’ve spent any time following Young Pioneer Tours, you’re probably aware that we are nothing if not passionate ferroequinologists (pretentious-speak for ‘train enthusiasts’). To our mind, there’s nothing more fun that travelling on the North Korea …
Transnistria currency, map and flag
May 31, 2019 / by Joel Vostok
Transnistria – a breakaway state located between Moldova and Ukraine and seemingly still trapped in the era of the Soviet Union – has been a YPT favourite for almost a decade and is a must-do on the adventure travel circuit. The country once earned the …
Korean Age reckoning
May 31, 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
Without wanting to be accused of being worse than Mussolini, I personally like how we calculate age in the West. You get born, on your first birthday you’re one, and then your age goes up on every birthday. I’ll be 40 on July 29th 2020, and by Jove I’l …
Korean New Year
May 31, 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
Korean New Year is the annual Lunar New Celebration for Koreans on the peninsula and beyond. As a Lunar New Year Korean New Year occurs at the same time as the more well known Chinese New Year and Tet in Vietnam among others. Is it the same in North an …
Narcotourism in Colombia
May 30, 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
Colombia is a country in many ways still haunted by its past, but with the new partial end to the civil war, and the former cartels holding much less sway than they used to, the country is now seeing a huge influx of tourists. Yet when your country has …
What are Kimilsungia and Kimjongilia?
May 30, 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
Kimilsungia and Kimjongilia whilst not the national flowers of the DPRK, still hold immense importance. There are many things named after the first leader of North Korea, Kim Il Sung, but Kimilsungia is one of the few that you can actually take home wi …
