Transnistria is one of the most obscure countries on the planet and didn’t earn the nickname ‘Europe’s North Korea’ for nothing. This secretive state still holds a sinister air of the unknown, with strong, often false stereotypes being thrown around ma …

When I tell people that I work in North Korea, more often than not they hit me with ‘facts’ about North Korea. One that comes up a lot is “did you know that weed is legal in North Korea?” Long story short: Pyongyang is unlikely to become the next Amste …

Lebanon is definitely a big favourite of the Young Pioneer Tours team, with us usually running a group tour there at least once per year. As with any country we like, we are always looking at other options for tours there. We thus bring you our Lebanes …

As a primarily online company we have, as you’d might expect, more than a passing interest in the website of both our competitors and friends. It’s particularly heartwarming when one of our customers begins a website that blossoms into a pretty big dea …

Young Pioneer Tours are famous for taking people to ‘places your mother would rather you stayed away from’, but there are some places that, regardless of what your mother thinks, you really shouldn’t go to. North Sentinel Island is one of those places. …

In the West we can often have a snobby view of world wines. Obviously there’s French, Spanish, Italian, Spanish, and New World wines – but there’s a tonne of great Eastern Bloc stuff that generally gets left off the list. One of the best is Crimean win …

Celtic/Gaelic domination of the whiskey market scotched as North Korea unveil their first distillation! May 23rd 2019 North Korean whiskey is here! Young Pioneer Tours was today given access to the first ever batch of North Korean whiskey — the locall …

Che Guevara was the ultimate revolutionary and mainstay of our tours to Cuba. We take a look at his extraordinary life. Is there anything more ironic than the ultimate legacy of Ernesto “Che” Guevara, who is less known for his revolutionary socialist a …

After a five-year hiatus, last year saw the triumphant return of the DPRK’s Mass Games — the world’s largest coordinated mass gymnastics event and a spectacle like no other on earth. The revival of the event proved hugely popular, with tours to North …