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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15 December 2020 / by Dominic Perry
When people discuss the atrocities committed under communism, there’s one regime that’s uttered with particular revulsion, the Khmer Rouge. Between 1975 and 1979, a mere four years, the savage rule of Pol Pot saw anywhere up to two million dead, possib …
11 December 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
Introduction – Australia Extends Travel Ban Australia Extends Travel Ban. Australia has announced that they will be extending their ban on people travelling overseas until at least the first quarter of 2021. Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt announced …
10 December 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
Introduction What’s the story with the Chavez jacket? If you have more than a passing interest in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and its recent socialist history, then you have probably seen a rather fetching jacket. There has never been a true m …
9 December 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
Introduction What’s the story with Sao Tome and Principe? I’ll get to that in a bit, but a few years ago, I wrote an article on the least visited countries in the world. Quite what the 2020 list will look like is a whole other ball game! The country ca …
9 December 2020 / by Sion
Introduction There are two things we’re passionate about here at YPT – football and offbeat travel. So when we were presented with the opportunity to team up with a football club from the island of Zanzibar we jumped at the chance! So if you’ve become …
7 December 2020 / by Nicolas Platt
Introduction The national anthem of North Korea is “Aegukka” (애국가), which translates literally into “patriotic song.” The song celebrates independence from the end of the Japanese occupation was initially composed in 1945 and officially adopted as the …
7 December 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
Introduction The Penis Museum Reykjavik, or to give it its full title, “The Icelandic Phallological Museum” (certainly not the bell-end museum), is one of those rather bizarre but must-see sites. At YPT, we do like a good museum, so we have decided to …
3 December 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
Introduction Urban Exploration, UE, or to give it its full hipster title Urbex is a sub-culture in the travel world that Young Pioneer Tours very much embrace! Much like Dark Tourism, it has its detractors and comes with its own controversy, but what f …
3 December 2020 / by Dean Karalekas
Haiti this is part 4 of this series by Dean Karalekas you can read part 1 here, part 2 here and part 3 here. The dogs, so friendly during the day, barked loudly at my approach to the main building this late at night, threatening to wake the o …