Each year we strive to add more adventurous destinations around the globe, running research trips to find out the best way to offer you the chance to visit the mysterious corners of the world still untouched by regular tourism. We have regular trips to Cuba, the Philippines – including our specialty Cutud Lenten Rites Tour – and Myanmar, as well as a large selection of tours in China including Tibet. And we have added tours in the Pacific to the Least Visited Countries in the world, which will take in Nauru – the least visited country in the world, and also Papua New Guinea. In 2019, our Papua New Guinea tour will not only take the majestic Mount Hagen festival in, but will also take us to the Autonomous Region of Bougainville.
For those with lots of time, YPT offers long adventure tours through Ukraine and Russia (including Chechnya) on the Summer Soviet Adventure and through Iran, Southern Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan and Sudan by combing our Iran & Whole Iraq to our Sudan Tour. In Africa, we visit Ethiopia, Somaliland and Eritrea on the Horn of Africa Mega Combo. We go through Mongolia, Russia and all the countries of the former Eastern Bloc and Yugoslavia on our Eurasian Adventure, and through Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Xinjiang, China on our Silk Road Combo.
We have added tours in the Pacific to the Least Visited Countries in the world, which will take in Nauru, the least visited country in the world, Tuvalu and Kiribati amongst others…
All our international tours are run in accordance with YPT’s branding and ethos: a super price, expert guides, and most importantly an adventure that will stick with you for life. We run tours for people who hate group tours, and we do not run groups larger than 25 people (at 26 we split into two. Average size 10 people). All groups are led by expert guides that know the destinations and are passionate about what they do. We also strongly believe in value, and generally, our prices are unbeatable.
YPT can also organize independent tours to Nauru, Iran, China, Papua New Guinea, Cuba, Eastern Africa, Sudan, South Sudan as well as Kiribati and Tuvalu at any time that suits your schedule or requirements.
Just get in touch with us!
We can offer independent tours to any of our worldwide destinations year-round, which are organized by our regional offices across the globe. Previous independent tours have been organised in North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Turkmenistan, Myanmar, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea (Including the Autonomous Region of Bougainville), Eritrea and Somaliland, Russia and Eastern Europe and many, many more. For independent tours to Cuba please check out Cuban Pioneers. On top of this, if you have a dream destination in mind on a road less travelled, we can tailor packages for you to any destination you can think of, at great prices. Our independent tours are done according to your needs and we are always on the lookout for new and exciting destinations to add to our list of worldwide adventures. Contact us today to organise your tailor made pioneering adventure to places your mother wished you stayed away from.
Is there anywhere we won’t go?
Yes of course, though we will go almost anywhere unless there is an active war taking place in the specific area and the situation is considered too dangerous. Contact us with your request and we will let you know if it is possible.
If I want to do a combo tour but can’t do all of it is that possible?
Yes, our long combo tours are open to people on any leg. You can join later or leave early depending on your schedule, just get in touch for an exact quote!
How often do we add new destinations?
Our list of destinations is constantly updating and we add many new tours every year – sign up for our mailing list or like us on Facebook to keep up to date!
- $895-$1190
Cuba May Day Revolutionary Tour (April–May 2019)
Part Soviet era parade, part Latin American carnival; there’s really only one place to be on May Day
- Start Date : April 30th 2019
End Date : May 7th 2019 - Duration: 7 nights, 8 days / 9 nights, 10 days
- $2495
Cuba May Day & Colombia Combo (April–May 2019)
Explore Che Guevara's Cuba before going in depth in to the Marxist and drug lord history of Colombia
- Start Date : April 30th 2019
End Date : May 18th 2019 - Duration: 17 nights / 18 days
- $1295
Colombia Civil War and Narcos Tour (May 2019)
From drug lords to Marxist rebels, explore Colombia's history up close!
- Start Date : May 11th 2019
End Date : May 19th 2019 - Duration: 8 nights / 9 days
- €895
All Koreas Part 1: North Korea Borderlands
North Korea Borderlands - What we believe to be the most fascinating border ever.
- Start Date : May 31st 2019
End Date : June 7th 2019 - Duration: 7 nights, 8 days
- €495
Kangbashi-Ordos Ghost City Tour (June)
Urban exploration in THE ghost city of China!
- Start Date : June 7th 2019
End Date : June 9, 2019 - Duration: 2 nights, 3 days
- €1740
China and North Korea Political Interest Combo
A spectacular tour to learn about the history and poltics between China and the DPRK.
- Start Date : June 10th 2019
End Date : June 23rd 2019 - Duration: 12 nights, 13 days
- Flight option: €200 flight one way or €250 return
- €795
Chairman Mao & Nanjiecun Collective Village Revolutionary China Tour
Experience life in a Maoist collective village!
- Start Date : June 10th 2019
End Date : June 16, 2019 - Duration: 6 nights, 7 days
- €995
All Koreas Part 3: South Korea Tour
Explore with us abandoned North Korean facilities left in South Korea and visit the DMZ from the south! Not your usual tour.
- Start Date : June 15th 2019
End Date : June 21st 2019 - Duration: 6 nights, 7 days
- Ship option: Ferry from China to South Korea included
- €1795
DPRK and China Football Combo
Support the DPRK team April 25 FC in Pyongyang before trekking south to see them in action in Hong Kong!
- Start Date : June 17th 2019
End Date : June 27th, 2019 - Duration: 10 nights / 11 days
- €1945
Mongolia & Russia: Naadam, Buryatia and Lake Baikal Combo Tour
Take in the best of Mongolia and Buryatia, riding along some of the best parts of the transsiberian railway!
- Start Date : July 5th 2019
End Date : July 22, 2019 - Duration: 15 nights, 16 days
- €995
Mongolia Naadam Festival and Wilderness Tour
Spectate at Mongolia's most important festival on this perfect summer getaway!
- Start Date : July 5th 2019
End Date : July 14, 2019 - Duration: 8 nights, 9 days
- €1195-1895
Tibet Roof of the World & Everest Base Camp
Watch debating monks and cross 5000m mountain passes before taking on the Everest, roof of the world!
- Start Date : July 14th 2019
End Date : July 25, 2019 - Duration: 7 nights, 8 days / 11 nights, 12 days
- €790-€7375
Summer Soviet Adventure Combo
Head back to the USSR with YPT this summer!
- Start Date : July 19th 2019
End Date : September 2nd, 2019 - Duration: 43 nights, 44 days
- $2895
The Least Visited Countries Summer Tour
Take your summer vacation way off the beaten path!
- Start Date : August 2nd 2019
End Date : August 13th, 2019 - Duration: 11 nights, 12 days
- €5145-€6375
Least Visited Countries + Papua New Guinea Summer Combo
The ultimate off the beaten path vacation
- Start Date : August 2nd 2019
End Date : August 21st/August 25th 2019 - Duration: 19 nights, 20 days / 24 nights, 25 days
- €2595-€3825
Papua New Guinea Mount Hagen Festival and Bougainville Tour
Watch the tribal festival of a lifetime in this fascinating country
- Start Date : August 13th 2019
End Date : August 21st/August 25th 2019 - Duration: 7 nights, 8 days / 12 nights, 13 days
- $3095
Silk Road Summer Combo Tour
Travel the lower Silk Road from Turkmenistan to Xinjiang in China, and all that’s in between
- Start Date : August 20th 2019
End Date : September 12th 2019 - Duration: 23 nights, 24 days
- €1395
Papua New Guinea Bougainville Tour
Explore the province of Bougainville, a place of recent history and untouched beauty!
- Start Date : August 20th 2019
End Date : August 25, 2019 - Duration: 5 nights, 6 days
- $1995
Kyrgyzstan Independence Day and Xinjiang: China Far West Combo Tour
Check out the fascinating borderlands of the old Chinese and Russian Empires
- Start Date : August 30th 2019
End Date : September 12th 2019 - Duration: 13 nights, 14 days
- €495
Kangbashi-Ordos Ghost City Tour (September)
Urban exploration in THE ghost city of China
- Start Date : September 2nd 2019
End Date : September 4th 2019 - Duration: 2 nights, 3 days
- €795
Xinjiang: China Far West Tour
Think you know China? Come to Xinjiang for a whole new experience
- Start Date : September 6th 2019
End Date : September 12th 2019 - Duration: 6 nights, 7 days
- $3600
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 16th 2019
End Date : September 25th, 2019 - Duration: 8 nights, 9 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 23rd 2019
End Date : October 2nd, 2019 - Duration: 9 nights, 10 days
- $995
Palawan Island Hopping Tour
YPT doesn’t normally do beaches, but then we saw these beaches!
- Start Date : September 30th 2019
End Date : October 9th 2019 - Duration: 9 nights, 10 days
- $2190
Palawan Island Hopping and Explore East Timor Combo
Hop across untouched Palawan islands and get to know one of Asia’s least known countries
- Start Date : September 30th 2019
End Date : October 16th, 2019 - Duration: 17 nights, 18 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 7th 2019
End Date : October 19, 2019 - Duration: 11 nights, 12 days
- Flight option: €195 flight one way in
- $1095
Explore East Timor
Understand the recent history of Timor and explore markets and beaches rivaling anywhere in Asia
- Start Date : October 9th 2019
End Date : October 17th 2019 - Duration: 7 nights, 8 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 13th 2019
End Date : October 19th, 2019 - Duration: 6 nights, 7 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 14th 2019
End Date : November 5th, 2019 - 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 14th 2019
End Date : October 21st / 24th 2019 - Duration: 10 nights, 11 days
- €795
Supreme Leaders: Mao and Kim Tour
Visit the Mausoleums of Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong-il and Mao in this one week adventure!
- Start Date : October 24th 2019
End Date : October 29th, 2019 - Duration: 5 Nights, 6 Days
- €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 29th 2019
End Date : December 20th 2019 - Duration: 52 nights, 53 days
- €845
Terra Nullius: Bir Tawil Incursion
The world's only unclaimed inhabitable piece of land - we go there!
- Start Date : November 1st 2019
End Date : November 8th, 2019 - Duration: 6 nights, 7 days
- $895/$1195
Cuba: Che Guevara and Missile Base Tour (November 2019)
Find out more about El Comandante and his past in Che’s Cuba
- Start Date : November 4th 2019
End Date : November 13th 2019 - Duration: 7 nights, 8 days
- $2695
Cuba & Colombia Combo (November 2019)
Explore Che Guevara's Cuba before going in depth in to the Marxist and drug lord history of Colombia
- Start Date : November 4th 2019
End Date : November 22nd, 2019 - Duration: 18 nights, 19 days
- $1295
Colombia: Civil War and Narcos Tour (November 2019)
From drug lords to Marxist rebels, explore Colombia's history up close!
- Start Date : November 14th 2019
End Date : November 22nd, 2019 - Duration: 8 nights, 9 days
- €795
Myanmar Christmas Adventure
Spend Christmas in the mountains of Myanmar and celebrate with the locals!
- Start Date : December 20th 2019
End Date : December 27th 2019 - Duration: 6 nights, 7 days
- $5590-$8285
Least Visited Countries Combo Tour
The ultimate adventure exploring 9 of the world's least visited countries
- Start Date : December 20th 2019
End Date : January 15th 2020 - Duration: 26 nights, 27 days
- $2695
Least Visited Countries: the Prequel
Party in Palau and spend Christmas in the Federated States of Micronesia!
- Start Date : December 20th 2019
End Date : December 28th 2019 - Duration: 8 nights, 9 days
- $2895
Least Visited Countries Tour Part 1
Have a New Year's Eve like no other in the least visited country in the world - Nauru!
- Start Date : December 27th 2019
End Date : January 7th, 2020 - Duration: 11 nights, 12 days
- $2695
Least Visited Countries Tour – Part 2
Get even more out of your Pacific holiday with a visit to three more countries, including the 3rd least visited in the world – Tuvalu!
- Start Date : January 7th 2020
End Date : January 15th, 2020 - Duration: 8 nights, 9 days
- $1495
East Timor Overland Jungle Jaunt
A real exploration of South East Asia's least visited country - crossing from Indonesia into East Timor
- Start Date : April 8th 2020
End Date : April 16th 2020 - Duration: 8 nights, 9 days
- $1195
Extreme Philippines Tour
Crucifixions, hanging coffins and cockfights – think you know the Philippines? Think Again.
- Start Date : April 9th 2020
End Date : April 15th 2020 - Duration: 7 nights, 8 days
- $1195
Extreme Philippines Tour
Crucifixions, hanging coffins and cockfights – think you know the Philippines? Think Again.
- Start Date : April 9th 2020
End Date : April 15th 2020 - Duration: 7 nights, 8 days
- $95 / $150
Cutud Lenten Rites Day Trip
Ever seen a live crucifixion? Here’s your chance!
- Start Date : April 10th 2020
End Date : April 11th, 2020 - Duration: 0 nights, 1 day / 1 night, 2 days
- $1195
Extreme Philippines Tour
Crucifixions, hanging coffins and cockfights – think you know the Philippines? Think Again.
- Start Date : April 10th 2020
End Date : April 11th 2019 - Duration: 7 nights, 8 days
- $2495
Cuba May Day & Colombia Combo (April–May 2020)
Explore Che Guevara's Cuba before going in depth in to the Marxist and drug lord history of Colombia
- Start Date : April 25th 2020
End Date : May 12th, 2020 - Duration: 17 nights / 18 days
- €795
Chairman Mao Revolutionary Tour & Nanjiecun People’s Commune
Communist China from Mao’s hometown to his mausoleum. Plus a remaining commune!
- Start Date : June 8th 2020
End Date : June 14th 2020 - Duration: 7 nights, 8 days
- €1995
Svalbard: Soviet Frontier Arctic Cruise
Visit some of the northernmost settlements in the world in ex-Soviet Svalbard!
- Start Date : October 11th 2020
End Date : October 16th, 2020 - Duration: 5 nights, 6 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 14th 2020
End Date : October 19th 2020 - Duration: 5 nights, 6 days
- $895-$1190
Cuba: Che Guevara and Missile Base Tour (November 2020)
Find out more about El Comandante and his past in Che’s Cuba
- Start Date : November 2nd 2020
End Date : November 9th / 11th 2020 - Duration: 9 nights, 10 days
- $2695
Cuba & Colombia Combo (November 2020)
Explore Che Guevara's Cuba before going in depth in to the Marxist and drug lord history of Colombia
- Start Date : November 2nd 2020
End Date : November 20th 2020 - Duration: 18 nights, 19 days
- $1295
Colombia: Civil War and Narcos Tour (November 2020)
From drug lords to Marxist rebels, explore Colombia's history up close!
- Start Date : November 12th 2020
End Date : November 21st 2020 - Duration: 8 nights, 9 days
- $95 / $150
Cutud Lenten Rites Day Trip
Ever seen a live crucifixion? Here’s your chance!
- Start Date : April 2nd 2021
End Date : April 3rd 2021 - Duration: 0 night, 1 day / 1 night, 2 days
