Turkmenistan has a hot, dry, desert climate. During June and July, you can expect temperatures well into the 40s (degrees Celsius) during the day, and dropping to 30 or so at night. It’s very unlikely to rain during this period. On either side of that, …

Introduction You’ve all seen the sensationalist headline: “Hiroshima-like blast in Beirut”. There’s never been a better time in history than now to live in click bait mania. Was the blast in the Lebanese capital, Beirut a nuke? Was it even close to a n …

Introduction The Haebangsan Hotel ( 해방산려관), located in central Pyongyang and opened in 1962, is not often visited by western tourists but is a popular place for Chinese businessmen and North Koreans visiting Pyongyang to stay. Haebangsan Hotel Location …

Introduction As a rule, guns aren’t taken into space for two reasons. Firstly, a gun can easily punch a hole through the thin metal wall of a spacecraft and kill everyone inside. Secondly, going into space is expensive and every piece of kit costs a sm …

A country as big as Ukraine in such a strategic position has naturally hosted countless cultures over the centuries. As a result, modern Ukraine is home to a variety of ethnic groups and their subsequent languages can often be heard on the streets of t …

Alongside a series of territorial disputes with Russia and Russian backed separatists, with a population of 40 million people living in an area of 10.18 million km², Ukraine is a beast of a country to map. But fear not, YPT has managed to cover everyth …

A common question many people ask us when visiting a lesser-visited Eastern European country like Ukraine, is what to pack? We’ve visited the country of Ukraine in the baking heat, snowstorms, and all seasons of the year. So we have a good amount of kn …

A country shrouded in the secrecy of the Soviet Union for decades, Ukraine is beginning a new part of its history as a modern independent state. However, the country has been the site of unrest and war in recent years which has created various stereoty …

We’ve been organizing trips to Ukraine for almost a decade. Through the corruption fuelled days of the Yanukovich regime and through revolution and war, we’ve seen Ukraine at its very worst and its very best. As a result, we’re the go-to people for an …