As a prelude to our “5 ‘Stans” tour, we present a way to get a more in-depth look at Turkemistan’s glitzy capital, Ashgabat! We take in all the (many, many) monuments and sites that we couldn’t fit on the standard tour, with visits to Independence Park, the Monument of the Constitution, Ertoghrul Ghazi Mosque, and […]

If you are in Cairo before or after one of our tours, you’ll want to make the most of your time. You might think of the Giza Pyramids, the National Museum and such, which also means crowds and the hassle of peddlers. YPT offers you a quick and easy tour of Cairo which will show […]

So you have some days in Egypt before your tour of Socotra or you are transiting through Egypt for one of our tours to Socotra, Sudan, South Sudan or Eritrea? We have just the thing to make that layover lifetime memorable, be it before or after your main trip. Come on this extension and join […]

Following on from our Belarus Exclusion Zone tour, we offer an extension to the infamous Stalin Line! Known as the ‘Soviet Military Disneyland’, this is a park set on the former bunker complex known as the Stalin Line that once defended the borders of the USSR but was defeated during Operation Barbarossa in WW2. At […]

Following on from our Belarus Exclusion Zone tour, we offer an extension to the infamous Stalin Line! Known as the ‘Soviet Military Disneyland’, this is a park set on the former bunker complex known as the Stalin Line that once defended the borders of the USSR but was defeated during Operation Barbarossa in WW2. At […]

From our experience Merv is one of the world’s most interesting ruins. It has been the site of settlements for millenniums until two hundred years ago. A visit through Merv is a walk-through time, as half a dozen civilizations have left their mark here. Along with an expert English-speaking guide, take a day before or […]

A nice 2 day trip from Ouagadougou is certainly the Nazinga Reserve Ranch. Covering 97000 hectars, the ranch in Burkina Faso is close to the neighbouring Ghana and can be reached from the capital city within 3 hours. While West Africa is not as well known for safaris as East or South Africa, Nazinga has […]

Our Sinuiju overnight extension gives you the perfect opportunity to get a deeper look at rural North Korean life outside of Pyongyang as well as a chance to explore Dongrim, a small remote town further south of Sinuiju city.

The DMZ is strictly a no man’s land which divides the Korean peninsula into two nations. With landmines, high concrete walls, tank traps and soldiers guarding this area 24/7, it is dubbed the tensest border in the world. Panmunjom is the only area where tourists from both North and South Korea are allowed to visit with access to the UN owned “blue hut” which gives you the advantage of technically standing in both Koreas at once.