Papua New Guinea has kicked off the year with the Port Moresby Riots 2024, again bringing in the question of if it is safe to travel to PNG right now. The answer as always as along the “its complicated” line. And while January tends to be the off season for tourism in Papua New Guinea, […]

As of January 12th 2024, the US and UK launched a series of strikes on Yemen against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who have previously been targeting international shipping in the Red Sea in retaliation to the on-going conflicts in Palestine. Most of these targets hit by strikes have been in the far west of Yemen […]

Russia is to start selling tours to North Korea, according to a state-run news agency Pravda announcement on 10 January 2024, but when exactly will this start, where will it be applicable and what does it mean for an overall North Korean reopening? YPT take a look. TLDR; long story short – North Korea has […]

Nauru has relaunched the Nauru Soccer Federation in a bid to kickstart football on the world’s smallest island nation. Gareth Johnson has joined the board, alongside Acting President Kaz Cain, while fellow Englishman Charlie Pomroy has been named as national coach. A former English Premier League player is lined up to join the coaching staff […]

The question that has been asked to us here at YPT at the end of 2020, 2021, 2022,2023 and now 2024 – will North Korea open in 2025? We are excited to announce that yes, it’s most likely that it will reopen for tourism in April 2025. Although under what terms the North Koreans are […]

As of 13th December 2023, the Islamic Republic of Iran announced in order to further expand and grow the tourism sector of the country. The following 33 nationalities have been granted visa free access to enter Iran as a tourist. The countries included on the new list include: Bahrain, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei, […]

The Young Pioneer Podcast Season 2 continues with another from-the-field episode recorded during YPT’s recent Horn of Africa tour in Somaliland! This two-segment episode of the Young Pioneer Podcast opens with an interview with YPT’s newest staff member Morgan Bourven. Hailing from France, Morgan first travelled with YPT to Tibet and North Korea in 2014, […]

North Korea to close embassies around the world, with the latest being its mission in Spain according to recent reports. Why are they being closed and what will it mean for travel once the country does reopen to tourism? To read about when North Korea will open to tourism click here. Spanish Embassy to close […]

In news that those of us involved in Pacific Island travel have been anxiously awaiting the international border crossing between Bougainville and Solomon Islands has been reopened. This fantastic news means that you will now be able to travel from the Autonomous Province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea to The Solomon Islands, a country […]

North Korea to raise prices and chnage currencies from the Euro to the USD, according to recent reports coming from both within and outside of the country. While the DPRK is not yet open to tourism, nor do we have any concrete information of when this might happen, we have been are being made aware […]