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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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Iran Covid-19 Update from our Local Guides
11 May 2020 / by YPT Team
After COVID-19 sent China into lockdown in late January the next country to be hit particularly hard was Iran, one of our traditional favourites countries and tours around the world. Our annual spring tour was, of course, cancelled with no prospect of …
Flag of Afghanistan
10 May 2020 / by Ben Crowley
What is the flag of Afghanistan? And what does the Afghanistan flag mean? The flag of Afghanistan! When it comes to flags, Afghanistan has had its fair share. No less than 25 flags in the last 300 years! The current flag of Afghanistan dates from 2013 …
Queen Sono: Netflix first African TV series
4 May 2020 / by Pier Doyon
Queen Sono, a South African spy with unorthodox methods, facing a conspiracy involving Africa’s secret service and the assassination of her mother, revolutionary martyr and South Africa’s answer to Thomas Sankara, decides to solve the case her own way. …
Top five TV shows to watch during the Covid-19 quarantine
4 May 2020 / by John McGovern
While you’re sitting at home dreaming of foreign lands and even the concept of travel is becoming a distant memory, here’s YPT’s guide to the best TV shows to watch during covid-19 lockdown. If like us you are still slightly angry at the end of Game of …
Top 10 Soviet Movies to watch in lockdown
4 May 2020 / by Joel Vostok
In these unprecedented times, it’s important to stay sane in lockdown. For those of you who are fans of travelling throughout the former Soviet Union with us, we decided to give you a virtual fix of Soviet weirdness by providing a list of the top 10 So …
COVID-19 Travel Update: China Lifts Travel Ban on Certain Nationalities
4 May 2020 / by YPT Team
As of May 1st, 2020, China and South Korea reached an agreement to allow travellers from South Korea to enter China for business purposes. These requirements of travellers include those from business, logistics, industrial production and technical serv …
National Heroes of Central Asia – Tajikistan – Ismoil Somoni
3 May 2020 / by Ben Crowley
During the Soviet Union, people worshipped Lenin, Marx, Stalin and even their local communist leaders such as Frunze. When the Soviet Union collapsed each country needed to find new national heroes. The rest of the world does it, the Scandinavians have …
What’s it like riding the train to Tibet
3 May 2020 / by David Stone
On board the highest train in the world YPTer David Stone describes his experience travelling to Tibet last year They say that time runs slowly on the railway to heaven. Not least when your iPad, packed full of movies and tv shows, decides to break a f …
We watched a football match in North Korea: Hang Yuen FC VS April 25 Sports Club
3 May 2020 / by David Stone
As someone who actively seeks out local football matches to visit whenever I am travelling abroad, I couldn’t pass on the opportunity to attend a football match in North Korea whilst on an excellent Political Interest Tour with YPT last year. It was a …
