Day 3 Unfortunately Shan was ill in the morning- probably she thinks because the floor was so hot it went through the bed giving her a cold (we figured out how to turn the heated floors off after that which did help, sometimes they were too hot). So she missed some of the best scenery […]

Much has happened since YPT Pioneered the North-East of the DPRK. You can find our more about Mount Chilbo & Chongjin and the North-Hamgyong province in general in our blogs. As some of you Young Pioneers out there may have already heard, on the 8th of November I was fortunate enough to have the chance […]

The world is is getting smaller, and unique destinations getting fewer. The modern day explorer will not set sail and stumble across a new continent, nor discover an unknown mammal already domesticated by strange foreigners. Even the oceans are rising, sinking tropical islands. So what options are left for the explorer who wants to set […]

If you are planning on taking a holiday, you need to ensure that your home will be safe while you are away. With the excitement of going on a holiday, you can easily forget about what you are leaving behind, only to get to your destination and start wondering whether you locked the door. Here […]

Traveling is fun, exciting, and always unforgettable. One of the most common ways to get to your travel destination is by plane. Travel flights can be short-haul, medium-haul, or long-haul. A short-haul flight lasts anywhere from 30 minutes up to three hours, whereas a medium-haul flight lasts between three to six hours. On the other […]

The tour part of SK was essentially to take in 2 major parts, the war museum, and the flip side of the 38 coin, Panmunjom from the southern side of the fence. So to start with the museum, well it’s my third Korean War Museum after the DPRK and China, and what amazed me most […]

I have south Korean friends, Korean American and even Chinese Korean friends, I have previously briefly visited the south, and Yanji in China, but essentially I know and do North Korea, the DPRK is “my” Korea, so being on a boat surrounded entirely by South Koreans felt a bit like being a strange another planet […]

So I have decided to blog the whole north/south tour, or at least as much as I can. This is technically day 2 I guess, although day 1 “in country” in fact I’m currently sitting in my cabin waiting for Korean customs to give me the once over at Sinuiju station. Last night I was […]

Introduction While clearing through our old “blogs,” I was hit with the following story we published in 2012. “OK, so not strictly YPT thing, but Arsenal are playing Man City at the birds nest on July 27th, and on the 29th in Hong Kong. I can get tickets for both games, if anyone needs them […]

黄河边延水岸黄土筑高原，窑洞前石磨碾仿佛回到昨天 ‘Beside the Yellow River, on the bank of the waters of the Yan, is the yellow earth plateau. Before the yaodong caves the millstone grinds, it seems a return to yesterday’. 我要去延安,看时间荏苒看万山红遍 ‘I’m going to Yan’an, to see the soft passing of time, to see thousands of hills, everywhere red’. From the popular red […]