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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 spend May Day in China’s Communist Capital
27 January 2016 / by Gareth Johnson
The first time I visited Yan’an it was the May 1st holiday for International Labour Day. After arriving late at night we went straight to our hotel, it was still chilly in the evenings but there were a group of Uyghurs out selling lamb skewers so we co …
North Korea’s Top 5 Moments in Sport
14 January 2016 / by Gareth Johnson
Here’s YPT’s favourite moments in DPRK sport history. Collision in Korea Held in the incredible May Day Stadium, 1995’s Collision in Korea wasn’t so much a showcase of North Korean wrestling talent as a demonstration of the building prowess of th …
Exploring Albania: Why this Overlooked Country Deserves More Attention
10 January 2016 / by Gareth Johnson
With one of the most fascinating histories in Europe combined with an incredibly diverse landscape, it is no wonder that tourism to Albania has increased by almost 1000 percent in the last ten years. This increase, however, has come almost exclus …
I was a guide in North Korea for two years. Now I’m leaving, and here’s my answers
10 January 2016 / by YPT Team
Have you noticed many changes in North Korea from your first time to last time? From my first tour in September 2012 to my final tour for Party Foundation Day in October 2015, I was fortunate enough to visit the DPRK around twenty-five times. A c …
Chasing Spirits in a Chinese Ghost Town: The utter strangeness of Ordos Kangbashi
10 January 2016 / by Gareth Johnson
Yang, our driver, is inching the car forward. We’re filming from the back seat. It’s late in the evening and in this part of town there are no streetlights, it’s almost pitch black. We follow the silhouette of a man stumbling along the pavement, …
5 Top Fake News Stories About North Korea
10 January 2016 / by Gareth Johnson
For many publications (not to name any specifically) North Korea acts as an easy target to help out on slow news days. When it comes to the DPRK, it is much easier to exaggerate a half-truth, twist the truth, or best still? Simply make something u …
Borderlands of North Korea – #2 Dandong
28 December 2015 / by Gareth Johnson
Aside from Young Pioneer Tours regularly blogging about our budget tours to North Korea and the many new North Korean Tourist attractions that pop up in Pyongyang and other cities, we also try and do the odd (dare we say interesting) piece about the wi …
Untouched South-East Asia: East Timor
28 December 2015 / by Gareth Johnson
When you’re looking to get off the beaten track and to see something new exciting and interesting, South-East Asia is hardly the first place that springs to most peoples minds; quite the opposite. From the Ping-Pong shows in Pattaya, drug-fueled moon p …
Beijing Travel Warning
27 December 2015 / by Gareth Johnson
Following news that the British, American, French, and Australian embassies are warning about possible attacks on Westerners in Beijing, YPT would like to give our own advice and take on things, particularly for those of our guests traveling …
