What year is it? The short answer to this is the current tear is 2025 AD, or 2025 CE, depending on your wokeness levels. This of course happened on January 1st, BUT Russians and other Eastern Orthodox nations who celebrate “Old New Year” on January 14th, which by their calendar is January 1st (kinda). It […]

Whenever you are first starting out in the world of brewing your own beer, you start small. You might brew some beer that is just enough for your friends and family, or for yourself. Even if you own a small brewery or are selling your beer, you will still be producing pretty small loads. However […]

Unlike most places on gods green earth activities on Socotra are not based around the capital of Hadibu, but in the countryside. It is therefore on day 2 where we head to Homhil National Park and famous for its Dragon’s Blood trees. To read about Socotra being a haven from war click here. Homhil National […]

One of the first stops on our tours to Socotra, Delisha beach is simultaneously a tropical paradise, whilst also epitomizing why Socotra gets #TheMostAlienPlaceOnEarth hashtag. And why is Socotra such a haven? Quite simply it has managed to be far enough away to avoid the war. Getting to Delisha Beach From Socotra Airport to Delisha […]

Online Freelance Jobs for Students Children want to feel independent when becoming college students. It is an opportunity to stop being dependent on what parents ask to do to deserve pocket money. Nevertheless, finding freelance jobs for college students might be quite challenging because they have to manage their academic homework to avoid being expelled.  […]

In February of 2023, Young Pioneer Tours returned to Burkina Faso after a three-year hiatus courtesy of Covid and Coups. This tour, however, was far from ordinary, instead a pinnacle moment in the nation’s long and complex history we would come to witness firsthand. OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO – If the city’s name is hard to […]

When you do a Socotra Tour your first might is spent in the capital of Hadibu and with YPT at least the Diamond Hotel Socotra. Not exactly the Hilton, but centrally located, has enough amenities and certainly a change from camping. What is Hadibu like? Where Socotra to leave the Republic of Yemen and even […]

I will start by adding that visiting the Sambia people of Papua New Guinea is not on a YPT itinerary, their practices though do shed a very interesting light on the tribal culture of Papua New Guinea. So, who are the Semen Tribe of Papua New Guinea? To read if Papua New Guinea is safe […]

What is war tourism, do we partake in it and is it a justified form of travel? At Ypt we get  are often interviewed by people, or spoken of by people who have specific views on what we stand one. One key thing we get accused of is Dark Tourism, but while we do not […]

An alternative place and an alternative view When you think of Egypt, you think of ancient civilizations, inscriptions, pharaohs and, of course, Pyramids, more specifically, those of Giza, which are amongst the most visited tourist sites in the world. However, a mere few kilometres away from these wonders is a city that most tourists neither […]