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Welcome to the Young Pioneer Tours Blog, the place where we we keep you informed about everything YPT, from current tours, to future tours and a whole lot of eclectic stuff in between.
YPT first started blogging in 2008 and are considered the best North Korean Travel blog that there is.
But, as Young Pioneer Tours have expanded our locations, so have we expanded our blog. Now we have one of the best travel blogs in the world!
And while most of our content is about the numerous destinations we go, including travel guides and what to pack, we also delve into more serious subjects such as the safety of certain destinations, as well as how LGTBQ+ friendly the places we visit are.
While the vast majority of our content is produced in-house, we are always on the look-out for guest bloggers and writers. Want to write for us? Then simply get in touch.
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CONIFA WORLD CUP 2020 GROUP STAGE DRAW
27 January 2020 / by
As we continue our coverage of the CONIFA World Cup 2020 in Skopje, the group stage draw for the finals were made this week and it’s thrown up some absolute corkers! It’s difficult to argue against Group D being the so called ‘Group Of Death’, pitting …
Travelling to the USA after a tour to the DPRK… getting a tourist visa is easy!
27 January 2020 / by YPT Team
Guest blog by Pioneer Joseph Harrison, a British guy living and teaching in China with an exotic taste in travel! He describes his experience getting a US tourist visa after his tour to the DPRK meant he couldn’t use the ESTA. Read more in his blog Des …
Maunsell Forts: Knock John
24 January 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
Maunsell Forts We’ve previously written about Roughs Tower/AKA Sealand as well as Red Sands, both of which fall under the weird category of Maunsell Forts. Now whilst Roughs became its own country and Red Sands has a group trying to preserve it, Knock …
Birobidzhan: the Soviet Zion
23 January 2020 / by Joel Vostok
Of all the stops of the famous Trans-Siberian railway, there are few as little-known as Birobidzhan – the only officially Yiddish-speaking republic that has ever existed. Located in Siberia near the Russia-China border, Birobidzhan is the center of Rus …
The Battle of Stalingrad
23 January 2020 / by Joel Vostok
The Battle of Stalingrad was the most brutal and bloodthirsty battle in human history. With our upcoming tour to Chechnya and Stalingrad, we decided to provide a proper look into this hellish fight between the Soviet Union and the Third Reich that clai …
Travelling with children to North Korea
23 January 2020 / by John McGovern
Here at YPT we get quite a lot of questions about travelling to the DPRK with children, so here are our handy answers to some of these questions! What is the age limit to join one of your group tours? To sign up individually for one of our group tours …
Maunsell Forts – Redsand
23 January 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
Maunsell Fort If you are somehow reading the Young Pioneer Tours blog, then I will go all out and assume that you have heard of the Principality of Sealand. In case you have not, and I will keep it brief; Sealand was previously a WW2 fort off the Briti …
Flights to North Korea May Run From Qingdao Airlines
23 January 2020 / by Dominic Perry
Qingdao Airlines plane Shandong-based airline Qingdao Airlines has recently been announced as the third airline company with permission to launch flights to north Korea. People flying from the cities of Qingdao, Zhengzhou and Quanzhou will be able to f …
The coronavirus panic: has North Korea closed its borders before?
22 January 2020 / by Gareth Johnson
With the news that the DPRK has closed its borders following concerns about the latest coronavirus strain discovered in central China, a great many Spring Festival travellers have been forced to alter their travel plans and either cancel outright, or m …
