When I first peered into the secretive land of DPRK, the year was 2011 and I did so in the company of hundreds of like-minded tourists. I had travelled from Seoul to the DMZ with high hopes of seeing some kind of activity across the 38th parallel. After queuing for nearly 20 minutes, I finally […]

During the winter season in the DPRK, things tend to slow down from the tourism perspective. This gives us at YPT a fantastic opportunity to visit the newly opened attractions in and around Pyongyang and the country. I was lucky enough to visit the newly opened Munsu Waterpark located across the river from May Day […]

It’s been a while since YPT announced that for the first time ever tourists were allowed into the DPRK to celebrate New Year’s Eve in Pyongyang. What made this news extraordinary was that during the months of December and January the entire country has always been closed to visiting tourists as the country conducts renovations […]

When it comes to the tourist industry in North Korea, people often concentrate on what cannot be done, but in fact, you can do a lot more things than people realize, such as hiking and camping in North Korea! Back in 2013, YPT announced our first ever camping tour to North Korea with the following […]

I was fortunate enough to be back in North Hamgyong leading the first Western tour group to cross the Tumen-Namyang border and see the cities of Hoeryong and Onsong, on April 24th-29th. There were 12 of us pioneering the way and we definitely had our fair share of crazy events. First we were followed everywhere […]

Words and photos by C. McGrane. So much media hype and “He said, she said…” surrounds the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, possibly earth’s most secretive nation at the moment. Not a whole lot of reliable or factual information is available about the northern half of the Korean peninsula, which makes it easy for some […]

(original post courtesy of Gareth’s blog) Our last day in Rason started pretty early as it was to encompass our slow stroll back to China, via 3 points pass, the place where China, Russia, and the DPRK traverse. On this particular morning morning we were blessed with stunning weather, with people snaking last photos’s from […]

(original story courtesy of Gareth’s blog) Last year at a DPRK pre-meeting, me and of the customers, Darmon Richter, got to chatting about our things to do in Beijing, which led us onto Mao’s secret underground city (which alas you can’t go to), and eventually to our mutual love of communist kitsch, and ghost cities […]

Unsurprisingly after our somewhat momentous night in Yanji and our first day in Rason, we started day 2 having all had quite the sleep the night before, and thus fairly bright eyed and bushy tailed. Stop one of the day took us to the Rajin revolutionary museum. Most major towns have a revolutionary museum, which […]

I spent some time looking at ferry options between the Dandong in China and Icheon in South Korea, and the North Korean Cruise from Rason to Mt. Kumgang, which got me thinking in a nautical way. Now most people’s idea of travel is taking a plane to a destination, look around then flying to their […]