Here at YPT we have a few tours that we’d consider flagship – May Day in North Korea, the Least Visited Countries tour, Chernobyl/Transnistria – but by far our biggest and most impressive is the Eurasian Adventure. But what, exactly, is the Eurasian Ad …

At Young Pioneer Tours we do like our unrecognised and former countries, and we indeed visit many of them. There is one sorta-country that we’ve regrettably neglected until now: the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. Manchukuo was founded by the Empir …

Since overhauling and fine-tuning our popular South Ossetia tours, we’ve received many inquiries for private tours to the hardest-to-visit unrecognized country in the former Soviet Union. One of the main questions that pops up is: ‘’how many days is en …

As the azure waters lap up against Peleliu’s white sandy shores, there is no question that this is a true paradise on earth. Located in a remote corner of the Western Pacific Ocean and home to around 700 people, the island of Peleliu is part of the nat …

A Soviet buff’s dream and an adventurer’s playground, Transnistria is known as the last remnant of the Soviet Union. For a small strip of land wedged between Moldova and Ukraine, it certainly packs a big punch in the history department. A Russian-speak …

At the end of 2017 a bunch of guys, led by YPT’s Gareth Johnson, had the idea of crowdfunding the purchase of a private island, whereby we would recruit 120 people to invest $3250 (raising $400k in total) and run the island as our very own micronation. …

At Young Pioneer Tours we go to a lot of different places, and whilst they’re each interesting in their own right, the quality of the food tends to vary a great deal. Luckily, we have a number of tours that cater to both wanderlust and palate. We’ve ru …

Dear Pioneers, We’ve reached the end of a fantastic year in 2019 (unless you happen to be British) and before moving onto what we’re sure will be an awesome 2020, we’re gonna cast an eye back over this year. Alien islands, unclaimed territories and the …

It is my thorough belief that everyone should blog, and I do not mean just to earn money. If you approach it as a cynical exercise in generating revenue, then you’ll likely fail. To succeed at blogging (and, incidentally, earn money), you need to be tr …