Each year we strive to include more ‘hard to reach’ and least visited destinations from around the world. We conduct research trips to pioneer the best possible way to offer you the chance to visit these locations still untouched by regular tourism and at the lowest possible cost.
All our unique tours are run in accordance with YPT’s branding and ethos: a competitive price, expert guides, and most importantly an adventure that will stick with you for life. Every tour is accompanied by an experienced western YPT guide and to encourage friendships and good times we cap our tour groups at a maximum of 24 people. Once we hit 25, we divide our tours into 2 different groups with their own vehicle, local guides and western YPT guides. Group sizes are usually around 10 – 12 people. As we like to say, “we do group tours for people who hate group tours”.
If our scheduled worldwide group tours don’t match your travel dates or interests, we can create your very own private tour. Our independent tours are suitable for all solo travelers, couples, friends, families and travel groups. During your private tour you will be accompanied by local guides (several languages are available), and you will have your own driver and air conditioned vehicle. YPT provides full visa support.
- East Asia: China, Mongolia, Tibet, Russia, Xinjiang
- Latin America: Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador, The Galapagos, The Guyanas, Haiti, Venezuela
- Pacific: Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea (Bougainville Region), the Solomon Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
- Polar Regions: Svalbard, Antarctica
- South-East Asia: Cambodia, East Timor, Laos, Myanmar, The Philippines, Vietnam, West Papua
- South Asia: Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal
- €645
Inner Mongolia & Kangbashi-Ordos Ghost City Tour
The best of Inner Mongolia, zipping through the grasslands to visit China's most infamous ghost town and its dinosaur town
- Start Date : July 5th 2021
End Date : July 10th 2021 - Duration: 4 nights, 5 days
- €795
Cambodia Dark Tourism Tour
Explore the dark tourism of one of South East Asia's most fascinating countries
- Start Date : August 5th 2021
End Date : August 11th 2021 - Duration: 6 nights, 7 days
- €1640 / €1790
Cambodia Dark Tourism & North Korea Liberation Day Combo
Explore the dark tourism of one of South East Asia's most fascinating countries, and finish off celebrating with the locals in Pyongyang!
- Start Date : August 5th 2021
End Date : August 17th / 18th 2021 - Duration: 14 / 15 days
- Flight option: €195 flight one way or €295 return
- €795
Vietnam Summer Tour
Explore the main sights and sounds of Vietnam by train
- Start Date : August 12th 2021
End Date : August 19th 2021 - Duration: 7 nights, 8 days
- €695
Divided Cyprus Tour
Explore Turkish controlled Northern Cyprus with war-torn ghost towns, arms dealers mansions, stunning beaches, and Roman relics!
- Start Date : August 15th 2021
End Date : August 20th, 2021 - Duration: 5 nights, 6 days
- $2895-$4390
Papua New Guinea Mount Hagen Festival & Bougainville Tour
Watch the tribal festival of a lifetime in this fascinating country
- Start Date : August 17th 2021
End Date : August 30th 2021 - Duration: 9 days / 12 days
- $1495
Papua New Guinea Bougainville Tour
Explore the province of Bougainville, a place of recent history and untouched beauty!
- Start Date : August 24th 2021
End Date : August 30th, 2021 - Duration: 6 nights, 7 days
- €1595
Kyrgyzstan to Tajikistan: Pamir Highway Tour
Explore remote Kyrgyzstan & Tajikistan, and even peek across the river into Afghanistan driving along majestic Pamir Highway
- Start Date : September 19th 2021
End Date : September 28th, 2021 - Duration: 9 nights, 10 days
- €895
Palawan Island Hopping Tour
YPT doesn’t normally do beaches, but then we saw these beaches!
- Start Date : September 30th 2021
End Date : October 9th 2021 - Duration: 10 days, 11 days
- €1740
Party Foundation Day Tour & China Red Base Tour
Take in the Party Foundation in the DPRK first, then celebrate the Chinese revolution!
- Start Date : October 6th 2021
End Date : October 19th 2021 - Duration: 11 nights / 12 days
- Flight option: €195 flight one way in
- €1995
Svalbard: Soviet Frontier Arctic Cruise
Visit some of the northernmost settlements in the world in ex-Soviet Svalbard!
- Start Date : October 10th 2021
End Date : October 15th 2021 - Duration: 5 nights, 6 days
- €2495
Ultimate Leaders Tour
Visit the Mausoleums of Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong, Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il and Vladimir Lenin in one go!
- Start Date : October 11th 2021
End Date : November 2nd, 2021 - Duration: 21 nights, 22 days
- €795-€995
Vietnam and South West China Tour
Explore the main sights and sounds of Vietnam by train all the way up into South West China.
- Start Date : October 11th 2021
End Date : October 18th / 21st, 2021 - Duration: 10 nights, 11 days
- €795
China Revolutionary Red Base Tour
Follow the footsteps of Chairman Mao where he set up the first real communist 'red bases' in China before taking power nationwide!
- Start Date : October 12th 2021
End Date : October 19th, 2021 - Duration: 7 nights, 8 days
- €1995
Svalbard: Soviet Frontier Cruise – Second Departure
A second chance to visit some of the northernmost settlements in the world in ex-Soviet Svalbard!
- Start Date : October 13th 2021
End Date : October 18th 2021 - Duration: 5 nights, 6 days
- $3595
Venezuela Bolivarian Revolution and Angel Falls Tour
Explore the incredibly diverse and fascinating country of Venezuela with YPT!
- Start Date : October 14th 2021
End Date : October 23rd 2021 - Duration: 9 nights, 10 days
- €495
Kangbashi-Ordos Ghost City Tour
Urban exploration in THE ghost city of China
- Start Date : October 20th 2021
End Date : October 22nd 2021 - Duration: 2 nights, 3 days
- $2095
The Guyanas Tour
Explore one of South America's most underrated countries!
- Start Date : October 23rd 2021
End Date : October 30th, 2021 - Duration: 7 nights, 8 days
- €395-€2995
Eurasian Adventure Tour
7 weeks, 21 post-Soviet countries or Unrecognised Countries. Taking in the whole iron curtain: The true Young Pioneer Tour
- Start Date : October 26th 2021
End Date : December 5th 2021 - Duration: 2 days to 39 days
- $2495-6495
Latin America Mega Combo: Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador & the Galapagos
All the excitement on offer in our Latin American tours, in one tour!
- Start Date : November 1st 2021
End Date : November 19 - December 2nd, 2021 - Duration: 19 days to 32 days
- $895-$1190
Cuba: Che Guevara and Missile Base Tour (November 2021)
Find out more about El Comandante and his past in Che’s Cuba
- Start Date : November 1st 2021
End Date : November 8th-10th 2021 - Duration: 8 days to 10 days
- $1295
Colombia: Civil War and Narcos Tour (November 2021)
From drug lords to Marxist rebels, explore Colombia's history up close!
- Start Date : November 11th 2021
End Date : November 19th, 2021 - Duration: 8 nights, 9 days
- $745 - $3995
Ecuador Amazon Rainforest and Galapagos Islands Tour
Venture deep into the Amazon on our Ecuador tour!
- Start Date : November 19th 2021
End Date : November 23rd - December 2nd 2021 - Duration: 5 days to 14 days
- $5895
Antarctica Frozen Continent Expedition
Explore the world's last frontier, the frozen continent of Antarctica
- Start Date : December 15th 2021
End Date : December 24th 2021 - Duration: 9 nights, 10 days
- $5290-10995
Least Visited Countries Combo Tour
The ultimate adventure exploring all 11 of the Pacific island countries
- Start Date : December 17th 2021
End Date : January 15th 2022 - Duration: 28 nights, 29 days
- €895
Myanmar Christmas Adventure
Spend Christmas in the mountains of Myanmar and celebrate with the locals!
- Start Date : December 20th 2021
End Date : December 27th 2021 - Duration: 6 nights, 7 days
- €1595 / €2895
Microstates of Europe Road Trip
Country-hop European microstates and geographic anomaly on our unique road trip!
- Start Date : April 6th 2022
End Date : April 17th 2022 - Duration: 10 nights, 11 days
- €495
Kangbashi-Ordos Ghost City April Tour
Urban exploration of a Chinese ghost city
- Start Date : April 8th 2022
End Date : April 10th 2022 - Duration: 2 nights, 3 days
- $1195
Extreme Philippines Tour
Crucifixions, hanging coffins and beaches
- Start Date : April 14th 2022
End Date : April 21st 2022 - Duration: 7 nights, 8 days
- $2495
Cuba May Day & Colombia Combo Tour
Explore Che Guevara's Cuba before going in depth in to the Marxist and drug lord history of Colombia
- Start Date : April 25th 2022
End Date : May 12th 2022 - Duration: 16 nights, 17 days
- $895 / $1195
Cuba May Day Revolutionary Tour
Part Soviet era parade, part Latin American carnival; there’s really only one place to be on May Day
- Start Date : April 25th 2022
End Date : May 2nd / 4th 2022 - Duration: 7 days / 9 days
- $1295
Colombia Civil War and Narcos Tour
From drug lords to Marxist rebels, explore Colombia's history up close!
- Start Date : May 5th 2022
End Date : May 12th 2022 - Duration: 7 nights, 8 days
- $1495 / $1795
Timor Independence Day Overland Tour
A real exploration of South East Asia's least visited country - crossing from Indonesia into East Timor
- Start Date : May 14th 2022
End Date : May 22nd 2022 - Duration: 8 nights, 9 days
- $3395 / $3695
East Timor & West Papua Tour
Celebrate National Day in East Timor and explore the unexplored in Indonesian West Papua
- Start Date : May 16th 2022
End Date : May 30th 2022 - Duration: 14 nights, 15 days
- $1495 / $1995
West Papua Tour
Explore the remote and pristine villages and valleys of West Papua
- Start Date : May 23rd 2022
End Date : May 30th 2022 - Duration: 7 nights, 8 days
- €1695 / €2595
Moscow to Pyongyang By Train Tour
Experience and ride on the longest passenger train journey in the world!
- Start Date : May 24th 2022
End Date : 10th June 2022 - Duration: 8 days / 17 days
- Flight option: €195 flight out
- €995
All Koreas Part 1: North Korea Borderlands
North Korea Borderlands - What we believe to be the most fascinating border ever.
- Start Date : June 17th 2022
End Date : June 24th 2022 - Duration: 7 nights, 8 days
- €2190 / €2990
Bangladesh & Bhutan: Unexplored South Asia Tour
A tour of extreme constrasts in South Asia! The tuktuks of Bangladesh and the yaks of Bhutan!
- Start Date : June 20th 2022
End Date : July 6th 2022 - Duration: 11 days / 18 days
- €695 / €1495
Bangladesh Unbound Tour
From paddleboat to shipbreaking yards through markets and mosques, fully experience Bangladesh
- Start Date : June 20th 2022
End Date : June 27th / 30th 2022 - Duration: 4 days / 11 days
- €1740
China & North Korea Political Interest Combo
A spectacular tour to learn about the history and poltics between China and the DPRK.
- Start Date : June 27th 2022
End Date : July 10th 2022 - Duration: 12 nights, 13 days
- Flight option: €195 flight one way or €295 return
- €795
Chairman Mao & Nanjiecun People’s Commune Tour
Communist China from Mao’s hometown to his mausoleum. Plus a remaining commune!
- Start Date : June 27th 2022
End Date : July 3rd 2022 - Duration: 7 nights, 8 days
- €2990 / €3690
Bhutan, Nepal & Tibet: Himalayas Tour
Take in the best of the isolated and ancient kingdoms of the Himalayas!
- Start Date : July 1st 2022
End Date : July 16th / 20th 2022 - Duration: 18 days / 20 days
- €1495
Kingdom of Bhutan Tour
The cheapest and most fun way to explore the best of Bhutan
- Start Date : July 1st 2022
End Date : July 6th 2022 - Duration: 5 nights, 6 days
- €995
All Koreas Part 3: South Korea Tour
Explore with us not one but two rural DMZ areas of South Korea.
- Start Date : July 2nd 2022
End Date : July 8th 2022 - Duration: 6 nights, 7 days
- Ship option: Ferry from China to South Korea included
- €1195 / €1895
Tibet Roof of the World & Everest Base Camp
Watch debating monks and cross 5000m mountain passes before taking on the roof of the world
- Start Date : July 10th 2022
End Date : July 16th / 21st 2022 - Duration: 8 days / 12 days
- €995
Mongolia Naadam Festival and Wilderness Tour
Spectate at Mongolia's most important festival on this perfect summer getaway!
- Start Date : July 10th 2022
End Date : July 17th, 2022 - Duration: 8 nights, 9 days
- $2995
Central Asia Summer Combo Tour: Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan
Taking in three of the must see Stans!
- Start Date : August 20th 2022
End Date : September 6th 2022 - Duration: 17 nights, 18 days
- $3895
Eastern Greenland Arctic Cruise Tour
Take in the Northern Lights and land on wild Greenland on the cruise trip of a lifetime!
- Start Date : September 11th 2022
End Date : September 19th 2022 - Duration: 8 nights, 9 days
- €695
Chechnya and Stalingrad Tour
A Soviet- and post-Soviet-themed adventure through the former war-ravaged Chechnya and Stalingrad!
- Start Date : September 22nd 2022
End Date : September 27th 2022 - Duration: 6 days, 5 nights
- $6195
Antarctica Frozen Continent Expedition
Explore the world's last frontier, the frozen continent of Antarctica.
- Start Date : December 4th 2022
End Date : December 13th 2022 - Duration: 9 nights, 10 days
