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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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Arsenal back to Asia
February 13, 2012 / by Gareth Johnson
As far as I know, I’m the only Gooner mad NK tour operator, although I might be wrong. Well current rumours are that Arsenal are planning 3 Asian matches, Hong Kong, Seoul, and against Man City in Beijing. Last year we managed to get 10 tickets for the …
Interview with Gareth Johnson regarding Iran Tours
January 31, 2012 / by Alistair Riddell
Original article can be found here Young Pioneer Tours, a British company that has been providing tours to North Korea since 2008, has just announced the launch its Iran service. Their inaugural Iran tour is set to take place the same week as Nor …
Europe’s Last Soviet State?
January 7, 2012 / by Gareth Johnson
After waking up after the hectic first night in Tiraspol it was time for actually doing some real touristy stuff, which for us this day was to consist of city tour of Tiraspol, including monuments, more monuments, and propaganda posters like you would …
YPT’s take on what to do in Tibet
January 7, 2012 / by Rowan Beard
There are a number of wonderful books and websites should you be looking to learn about the unique culture of Tibet, with Wikipedia and Wikitravel being great places to start. From a tour point of view being in Tibet and part of their mysterious cultur …
Rason Tourism Research Tour
January 7, 2012 / by Gareth Johnson
Rason Tourism Research Tour Join us for our very first tour of the year to the Rason Special Economic Zone of North Korea. As our first tour of what we hope to be a very busy year for us in Rason, our partners in the zone have arranged lots of extras f …
What to do in Rason
January 7, 2012 / by Gareth Johnson
Rason is not Pyongyang, and in many ways not comparable to a visit to Pyongyang, it is very special in other ways. For a start, it is very off the beaten track, with far fewer westerners than North Korea main, a simple Google search will show you how l …
Yanji
January 7, 2012 / by Gareth Johnson
Yanji (or Yeon’gil in Korean; Korean pronunciation: [jɔnɟil]) is the capital city of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in northeastern China. Its population is approximately 400,000 of which a large section is ethnic Korean. Yanji along with Dandong …
Happy New Year from YPT
January 5, 2012 / by Gareth Johnson
Here is the group e-mail that we sent out to our mailing list. If you would like to join the mailing list please e-mail tours@youngpioneertours.com to let us know Dear all, Firstly you are receiving this e-mail because you have at some point been in to …
So many conflicting reports
December 28, 2011 / by Pier Doyon
Many many tourist companies, and tour media have been making their predictions about if the DPRK will be closed to tourists, how long for etc etc. Regarding the question of “how long will the DPRK be closed to tourists”, or “when will North Korea be op …
