We have received confirmation from the Pyongyang Marathon committee that the Pyongyang Marathon (Mangyongdae Prize International Marathon) held in April is expected to be held on Sunday April 11th 2024. YPT are proud to offer our Marathon tours for 2024 Pyongyang Marathon and Kim Il Sung Birthday Tour – Group A 5 days €995 or […]

As if life isn’t getting annoying enough with the Coronavirus, countries have now started changing their visa rules. Kazakhstan has announced today that the visa-free regime that so many of us enjoyed in the last few years has now been cancelled. This means that everyone, with the exception of a few of their closest friends […]

Book your 2025 tour to North Korea (or beyond) for free, with a €50 deposit, or with an in-built discount! Last Saturday, Young Pioneer Tours initiated our membership program. This was something we had been working on for many years, but as they say crisis speeds up progress, and the current COVID-19 pandemic sped our […]

The Cutud Lenten Rites Festival has been cancelled for 2020, in another blow to tourism everywhere. Well, it only seems like yesterday that we lost the Pyongyang Marathon, and now the Cutud Lenten Rites festival has been withdrawn from the YPT yearly calendar. If you have never heard of the Cutud Lenten Rites Festival, it […]

The largest international trade fair held in Pyongyang was originally scheduled on May 11th to 15th, then later rescheduled to May 25th to 29th with the final decision just coming through today regarding the event be postponed indefinitely due to COVID-19. The Pyongyang Spring Trade Fair hosts more than 350 booths with companies from various […]

We are living through unprecedented times, and the world, along with the travel industry, is a changed place. We understand that planning a trip can be full of caution and uncertainties, even at the best of times. Undoubtedly travel in the era of COVID-19 has made planning trips more difficult with lockdowns, flight cancellations and […]

We are used to dealing with “fake news” regarding North Korea, Turkmenistan less so, but did the country really ban the word coronavirus? The short answer is no. On March 31st, Reporters Without Borders (known by its French acronym RSF) published a rebuke of Ashgabat for allegedly “banishing the word ‘coronavirus’ from the Turkmen vocabulary.” […]

According to the Khmer Times (our new favourite website), there are no evacuation flights for Australians in Cambodia currently being planned. Currently, there are hundreds of Australians in Cambodia, a popular haunt for tourists and ex-pats alike. Now, there are still a limited number of commercial flights in operation, but these are usually prohibitively expensive, […]

Due to the coronavirus lockdown, extending your visa in Cambodia is now probably a necessity. Here’s how to do it. For most visitors to Cambodia you will enter on a tourist visa on arrival, or through the e-visa (online visa), both of which are usually valid for one month, and under normal circumstances can be […]

Cambodia to enforce strict travel restrictions from Tuesday, March 31, essentially making it the last country in the region to do so. Cambodia, which effectively was shut down to the outside world by the closure of the Vietnamese, Thai, and Laos borders, has now made things “official” by imposing stringent travel restrictions. The government of […]