Due to the coronavirus in China and the temporary closure of the DPRK border our annual Win a Free Trip Competition is on hold. As soon as the DPRK reopens we will be announcing the date for the draw and then the winners. Every year for the last 7 years Young Pioneer Tours have been […]

Young Pioneer Tours is pleased to announce we have signed a one-year deal to become the Official Tour Partner of CONIFA, the Confederation of Independent Football Associations, a global acting non-profit organisation that supports representatives of international football teams from nations, de facto nations, regions, minority peoples and sports isolated territories. For us at YPT […]

October 18th 2019 As of this week travel to Socotra on the flight from Cairo has been suspended by the authorities. There are plenty of rumours going around as to why this has happened, but it seems that it was a response to two tourists travelling to Socotra without the correct visa – in response […]

October 17th 2019 Mount Paektu was yesterday graced by the return of its favourite bloodline yesterday, as Marshal Kim Jong Un mounted a white steed and galloped about the sacred mountain. Images of the epic horseback ride were released by KCNA, the North Korean state news agency, via their website. It is unclear if the […]

When the draw for the Asian section of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar was made, here at YPT we were immediately excited at some of the games we could watch in Pyongyang. Home to Sri Lanka in March 2020, home to Turkmenistan in June 2020, but the big one was no less than home […]

Syria has recently hit the news again in a big way. After not much attention for a while, it’s back in the limelight. The president of the USA, Donald Trump, announced that he would withdraw US troops from a particular segment of the Syrian/Turkish border. As a result of this Turkey announced that they would […]

YPT is kind of a big deal. We didn’t necessarily envision being where we are now, where we have to think about logistics and stuff, but we are. And on occasion, we find that we need more people to guide and blog and do social media stuff. So here we are, dear reader, throwing ourselves […]

Much like any other country, North Korea has its fair share of holidays, festivals and celebratory days. And much like any tour company specialising in tours to a particular country, we try to take advantage of as many of these as possible. With that in mind, here’s a comprehensive guide to all of the holidays […]

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 very tough immigration policy which meant tourist visas simply didn’t exist. For a long time, people who visited […]

We did it, folks – in a massive milestone for YPT, we became the first tour company to take a group across the DPRK-Russia border! That is legit amazing! Right? Not since the day after never has a tour company taken a group over this border, making this a huge coup and establishing an exciting […]