If you have any kind of travel adventurism in you then North Korea is probably on your bucket list. But if North Korea is ALREADY on your bucket list, then what North Korean things you should be on your North Korean bucket list? What are the essentials …

At Young Pioneer Tours we consider ourselves the experts when it comes to mega tours and travel. We run a lot of tours to a lot of places, some of them are very short, but some are what we like to refer to as mega tours. What is a mega tour? To us it i …

For the past couple of years, the YPT Soviet Europe office has been based in the Black Sea port city of Varna, Bulgaria. The location is rather fitting for a number of reasons, not only can we see the epic monument to Soviet Bulgarian Friendship from o …

A view of the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War, the biggest War Museum of Korea On every tour to North Korea you will receive at least some education on the Korean War, obviously from the point of view of North Korea. Now, whilst we do not run spec …

Introduction to the Sinchon Massacre Museum The Sinchon Massacre Museum of American War Atrocities! To give it its full title. This is probably the most macabre place you can visit in North Korea. When you consider quite how seriously the DPRK take the …

Bhutan is often painted (much like Tibet) as a kind of Buddhist utopia where everyone prays and is really happy. I mean ,they even measure Gross Domestic Happiness right? Well, the situation on the ground is a bit different. Introducing the Bhutan Comm …

Did you know that the King of Bhutan was the last last absolute monarch to willingly give up power? In the modern world， there are far less countries governed by monarchies than are republics. When we think of monarchies we tend to think of them as wri …

Introduction to the flag of Syria For this blog we’re looking at the flag of Syria, more specifically the flag of the Syrian Arab Republic, or thw Syrian flag that represents the regime and government of Bashar al Assad. Of course there are numerous ot …

Few countries are as iconic to travelling as Egypt. When thinking about the cliche of the traveller, you might have the Taj Mahal of Indian, the Great Wall of China or the Parthenon of Greece in mind but the Pyramids of Egypt are never far in mind. It …