Join our Socotra Yemen Island Tour as we will be taking the Yemenia Airways flight from Cairo, to Hadibu, Socotra via Aden in mainland Yemen. Suffering civil war, coups, revolutions and bombings in recent years, the Republic of Yemen is generally off the radar for tourists. Unless, that is, you know about the island of […]

We’ve worked on this tour for a while, but now we bring you back to the heart of Soviet Europe. This tour coincides with the Transnistrian and South Ossetian National Day celebrations, two of the last surviving Soviet-style military parades left in Europe! The tour will begin with a journey into the secretive state of […]

As an extension or a standalone tour, this is a tour through some of the modern Russia’s most significant cities: Chechnya and Stalingrad! Our first stop will be the Capital of the Chechen Republic, Grozny, once labelled as the most destroyed city on the planet after the vicious civil war which engulfed the republic for […]

Russia has been a YPT favourite for many years, from expeditions to remote gulags in Siberia to navigating Chechnya and the unstable North Caucasus region. Now, we bring you our ultimate Soviet Russia tour at a price even Lenin would be proud of! Beginning in the heart of the revolution, Saint Petersburg, we’ll trace the […]

Join YPT as we embark on an exploration of the Caucuses, encompassing Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia. It has historically been the natural barrier between Eastern Europe and Western Asia – a passage for the Silk Road where trade, culture, political ideas and religion flourished at the crossroads. Group Start Date End Date Duration Price Group […]

Join YPT as you circle the Himalayas from Bhutan through Nepal to Tibet. This region is a land of rough and sturdy people used to their harsh environment but also profoundly marked by spirituality and mystery only waiting to be discovered! In Bhutan, we will visit the capital city of Thimphu and take in all […]

Our Unbound Bangladesh tour, in June 2026, will take you to a country that has been completely off the radar when it comes to tourism, especially when compared to its neighbour, India. To the point that Bangladesh used to promote itself with the slogan “visit Bangladesh before the tourists come”! An underrated travel destination, it […]

This spring we are combining two of our favourite tours, our Azerbaijan and Nakhchivan tour followed by our Iran Classics tour. Two countries sharing Shia culture. The tour starts in Azerbaijan, in the capital of Baku before going on by chartered flight to the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic! Whilst Nakhchivan is an exclave of Azerbaijan, this […]

After three successful Language Study Tour since 2018, Young Pioneer Tours is proud to continue what is without question our most intensive and extensive North Korean experience. Not only will you experience the must-see sites of the DPRK, but you’ll also dig deeper into life in Pyongyang over 29 days than any other tour on […]

Join YPT for what we believe to be the cheapest ever travel package to take people into the DPRK as we visit all the must-see sites of Pyongyang. By making use of traveling from Dandong (which is easily reachable from most of China), and the more than comfortable Chongnyon Hotel in Pyongyang, we are able to […]