Coronavirus travel update. Welcome to the YPT COVID-19 / Coronavirus travel updates page. With this page we aim to give up to date travel advice on which countries are open to tourism during the current pandemic. As you might imagine one of the most frequent questions we are getting asked right now is which countries […]

YPT tours to Samoa Our Samoa tours take you to the Independent State of Samoa, one of the most culturally rich and scenically stunning nations in the South Pacific. Often confused with American Samoa, the Independent State of Samoa is an entirely separate nation with its own government, unique cultural identity, and centuries old traditions […]

Despite our role within the travel industry, and adventure travel in particular, we have not yet attended a World Travel Market or anything similar. Why? Principally because we were too busy, but also in part because we always assumed these events were a little vanilla for us. Well, that all changed this week. We bounced […]

People love to say guidebooks are dead. They said it when blogs arrived, they said it again when Instagram came along, and they said it for the third time when AI started spitting out travel tips. Yet here we are in 2025 and people are still buying travel guides. Why? Because a proper guidebook never […]

China Solo Travel Guide 2025: Visa-Free Entry, Tips & Tricks Traveling solo in China by yourself now is pretty bloody hard if you do not speak Chinese, but while difficult, it is far from impossible. There are though some super tricks of the trade that will help greatly, hence our China solo travel blog. And […]

If you’re planning a trip to Southeast Asia, understanding Time in Vietnam is more important than you might think. Vietnam is a long, narrow country stretching from the Chinese border in the north down to the tropical Mekong Delta in the south, yet the entire nation follows a single time zone. That’s right, despite spanning […]

Travel costs money, believe it, or not! Which means whether you are hopping on a flight to Pyongyang (one day), chasing Soviet ruins in Central Asia (with us), or just trying to escape the chaos of the western world by riding a battered minibus in West Africa, your bank account will scream. Flights, visas, guesthouses, […]

Nestled in the eastern Himalayas, the Kingdom of Sikkim was a small but culturally rich Buddhist monarchy that maintained its independence for centuries. Bordered by Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, and India, Sikkim’s unique geography and spiritual heritage made it a distinctive Himalayan kingdom. Today, it is an Indian state, but its history as an independent kingdom […]

On 4th June 2025, a new “Trump Travel Ban” was announced, under which President Donald Trump has effectively banned nationals from 13 countries and imposed severe restrictions on travellers from six others. As is often the case with developments like this, there’s currently a lot of fear and, indeed, misinformation about what it actually means […]

If Indonesia’s eastern edge is where the map gets vague for most people, then Timor-Leste is where the modern traveller either doubles down or turns back. Nestled between two worlds and shaped by a bloody past, Timor-Leste is not Southeast Asia with a tropical twist, nor is it quite Melanesia in the true sense. What […]