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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”.
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Hotels of North Korea – The Chongnyon Youth Hotel
April 26, 2019 / by Rowan Beard
The Chongnyon Youth Hotel was first opened in 1989 and is classed as a budget hotel with a North Korean three-star rating. The name Chongnyon translates to Youth which was named for the first purpose of the hotel providing accommodation for the student …
7 Reasons to visit Sinuiju
April 26, 2019 / by Troy Collings
As the most prominent city bordering North Korea’s northern neighbour of China, Sinuiju is a city many tourists pass through — but not one many stop at. In our opinion, however, it’s well worth a visit in of itself. Why? Read on… 1. It’s easy to vis …
A Guide to North Korea’s Provincial Capitals: Chongjin – “The City of Iron”
April 26, 2019 / by Nicolas Platt
In our inaugural post to guides of the provincial capitals of North Korea, we bring you Chongjin: the capital city of North Hamgyong province. Chongjin is North Korea’s third largest city, with a population of around 620,000, and is the country’s indus …
How to get from North Korea to Russia
April 25, 2019 / by Pier Doyon
With Marshal Kim Jong Un leaving his country for the first time after the US-DPRK summit in Vietnam, you might be interested in knowing how such a trip is doable. While we’ve previously covered how to get from Vladivostok to Pyongyang by plane and cove …
How do you say ‘Korea’ in Korean?
April 25, 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
Would a rose by any other name smell so sweet? I think Shakespeare said something like that, and from what I can gather he was saying ‘names are important’. But the good old Bard was talking about flowers; alas, when it comes to countries, people have …
A road bridge between Russia and North Korea
April 25, 2019 / by Pier Doyon
As we predicted , Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin today met in Vladivostok. Kim and Putin are meeting for the first time and much has been put on the table in terms of the level of collaboration that could happen between the two countries. Much is still …
A Guide to the Provinces of North Korea
April 25, 2019 / by Alistair Riddell
People, namely people who do not happen to live in North Korea, often see the country as a large monolithic block. And while the regional variation in the DPRK may not be what it is in the Chinese provinces, there are still some differences to make not …
Breaking News – Manpo City to Open to Foreign Tourists
April 25, 2019 / by Gareth Johnson
Young Pioneer Tours is always working with our Korean partners to open up new parts of the DPRK to tourism, and the city of Manpo in Chagang Province is now open to tourists as of April 2019. Manpo is a large city of over 100,000 people, standing on th …
A new budget way to travel between Beijing and Shanghai
April 25, 2019 / by Pier Doyon
For a long time, the choices to go from the Chinese metropolis of Shanghai to the capital, Beijing, were either flying or taking the train. As trains are often much cheaper than flights, the choice truly came down to taking a slow train or take the hig …
