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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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South Ossetia Independence Day
September 22, 2019 / by Joel Gallagher
At the Soviet Tours department of YPT, we made our name by pioneering travel to the four rogue nations of the former Soviet Union: Transnistria, Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh and South Ossetia, the latter being our least visited breakaway state. But this …
The Algerian Flag: Fast Flag Facts
September 19, 2019 / by Gareth
We at YPT dabble in a fair few –ologies, including the hallowed and much-revered field of vexillology (the study of flags, for those who can’t be bothered CTRL-T’ing over to Google). The history and symbolism behind a great number of world flags is oft …
All you ever needed to know about Greenland
September 19, 2019 / by Gareth
Young Pioneer Tours are currently getting very excited about our first ever tour to Greenland. In anticipation of said trip, we’ve taken the usual step of writing a blog about the place in question! Is Greenland a country? Yes and no. Those belonging t …
Organised Trips to Transnistria
September 17, 2019 / by Joel Gallagher
Transnistria is a Russian backed, breakaway state sandwiched between Moldova and Ukraine. During the collapse of the USSR in the 1990’s, the region erupted into full scale civil war killing over a thousand people. In the aftermath, the republic of Tran …
5 of the worst islands in the world
September 17, 2019 / by Gareth
Young Pioneer Tours have partnered up with Let’s Buy an Island to purchase our very own slice of paradise and form a new micronation. LBI are very much on finding a good island, but in the meantime we thought we’d look at some of the absolute worst isl …
North Korea time zone: does it have its own?
September 17, 2019 / by Gareth
You’ve decided that you’d like to travel to North Korea. You’ve booked your flights, your visa is in hand, and your trip is secured with the sine qua non of DPRK travel, Young Pioneer Tours. All you need to do is get your clock set for North Korea time …
Djenné, Mali: A city guide
September 17, 2019 / by Pier Doyon
Very few cities around the world are as underestimated at the moment like Djenné. True treasure of Mali, Djenné is an ancient city straight out of a movie set that you can explore and have to yourself. Before, Djenné used to be a hotspot for tourism in …
Thomas Sankara: Africa’s Che Guevara
September 15, 2019 / by Pier Doyon
When it comes to communist figures, we at YPT are extreme geeks. While some figures are known by pretty much everyone, such as Lenin, Stalin and Fidel Castro some, because their influence was less felt in the western world, are not mentioned as often. …
How to get a visa to Bhutan?
September 10, 2019 / by Pier Doyon
Bhutan, the mysterious mountain kingdom perched in the Himalaya, has been attracting the attention of more and more travelers in recent year. With its very unique approach to tourism and gestion of tourists, the way to get a visa to Bhutan might be sli …
