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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”.
We’re always looking for contributors to our sites, so feel free to browse through our blogs, and , get in touch if you’d like to write for us.
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How to Get a South Ossetia Passport Stamp?
October 1, 2019 / by Pier Doyon
Every year, our Soviet Europe team lead countless trips into the post-Soviet breakaway states of Abkhazia, Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh and South Ossetia. A common question from our guests is in regards to the passport stamps of breakaway countries, …
Airlines of the Pacific : Air Niugini
October 1, 2019 / by Pier Doyon
When it comes to travelling in the Pacific, one Airline is becoming more and more of a big player. That airline is Air Niugini. The national airlines of Papua New Guinea has a fleet bigger than any of the other nations of the Pacific (with the exceptio …
Docking at Ittoqqortoormiit (that’s easy for you to say)
September 30, 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
Nature is nature. But there really is only so many times that you can see an iceberg – or even something as spectacular as the Northern lights – without getting fatigue from it. My main reason for being on this trip was to be the ‘guide’, or in this in …
Ittoqqortoormiit – the Full Guide
September 30, 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
Ittoqqortoormiit is one of the least visited places in one of the most remote places on earth. YPT have therefore decided to write a guide to it! How many people live in Ittoqqortoormiit? 452 according to Wikipedia, although we saw a lot of babies, so …
A Greenland cruise – to the ship and beyond
September 30, 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
Day one of the Young Pioneer Tours Greenland cruise started in typical YPT fashion with our group meeting at 6pm in the Lebowski bar, before heading off on a pub crawl that involved eating the infamous hakarl, drinking the local liquor, and staying up …
My first Bangladesh Tour
September 30, 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
To say that I caught the travel bug fairly early would be a bit of an understatement. My first trip abroad (without my family) was in 1996, when a fifteen-year-old me when to Bangladesh. Why, you might ask, would I visit Bangladesh at such a tender age …
How to get an e-visa for Saudi Arabia
September 28, 2019 / by Pier Doyon
Saudi Arabia used to be one of the toughest countries to get into and lots of people had to come with elaborate plans to get into the Kingdom and visit it. Tales of extreme bureaucracy and difficult maneuvers were common for non-Muslims who wanted to t …
Saudi Arabia starts giving tourism e-visas to over 50 nationalities
September 28, 2019 / by Pier Doyon
the main page of the saudi e-visa website Saudi Arabia, the long out-of-reach kingdom, birthplace of Islam. It has been on travellers bucketlist for a very long time but, until very recently, it was one of the hardest countries to get into due to a ver …
5 reasons to visit South Ossetia
September 28, 2019 / by Joel Gallagher
This year, Young Pioneer Tours were invited to attend the Independence Day celebrations in South Ossetia, one of the youngest post-Soviet breakaway states that tore away from Georgia in a short but brutal war in 2008. Now, the Republic of South Ossetia …
