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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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What language do they speak in Svalbard
June 3, 2020 / by Pier Doyon
Hallo! That’s hello in Norwegian and god morgen! You guessed it, that was good morning in Norwegian. For this blog, we’ll be looking at the languages spoken in Svalbard. An iconic name that comes with the idea of being far, far away like Timbucktu only …
Banking in North Korea
June 2, 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
Can you open a bank account in North Korea? Or more specifically can foreigners open a bank account in North Korea? Here is our insight into banking in North Korea These questions might seem a little bit redundant considering that North Korea is by far …
Dating Apps in Afghanistan
June 2, 2020 / by Ben Crowley
Travelling to Afghanistan regularly, it’s always fascinating to see the things that first-time visitors notice. The things that get their attention, the differences they find the most shocking and the similarities they find most interesting. One thing …
Is Antarctica a country?
June 1, 2020 / by John McGovern
Avid readers of the YPT blog will remember we discussed the rules for collecting countries and where Antarctica fits in. Many of you will have filled in maps on your Facebook to show the exact countries you have been to, and what’s still left, but if y …
The last Khmer Rouge State
June 1, 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
The red dots represent the location of the main camps of the last Khmer rouge State Cambodia has been heavily shaped by its past, particularly the brutal rule of the Khmer Rouge which lasted between 1975 and 1979. What many people do not realize is tha …
Covid-19: How will travel change
June 1, 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
After another day of cancelling tours to North Korea, we are now sitting in the (new) YPT office in Cambodia, trying to plan the future, and thinking about how travel will change for us and our customers. Obviously we do not have an actual crystal ball …
Covid-19: When will international travel resume?
June 1, 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
This is the one million dollar question that we are currently regularly getting asked, but sadly no one knows for sure when tourism will resume around the world, fully at least. With that being said, there is now at least some movement and some countri …
Top 5 things to do in Nuku’alofa
June 1, 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
Nuku’alofa is a city very much in the hearts of the YPT team, not least because we got stranded there after a typhoon this year! It is also an integral part of our yearly Least Visited Country Tour with us chartering a plane to fly from Apia in Samoa t …
Exploring the City of Domes – Kyiv
May 30, 2020 / by Joel Gallagher
We spend a lot of time in the charming city of Kyiv (previously spelled Kiev by Russians and the rest of the world) throughout the year on our Soviet tours through Ukraine. Due to its abundance of orthodox churches with their quintessential onion domes …
