YPT is delighted to announce the Socotra Arabian Sea Tour for 2024. We will officially be taking advantage of the new flights going from Cairo into Socotra, stopping by Seiyun in Yemen. Suffering civil war, coups, revolutions and bombings in recent years, the country of Yemen is generally off the radar for tourists. Unless, that […]

Join us for our first-ever dedicated skiing tour in Iran! The tour centres on the Dizin Ski Resort, which is the largest ski resort in western Asia and located in the heart of the Alborz mountain range, 75km from Tehran. The high altitude and the climate conditions offer a good length of time for skiing, […]

Join YPT as we introduce our Iran and Iraqi Kurdistan combo tour!  Iran is a destination we know and love well; however, the lesser visited Kurdistan is a prospective new nation protected by the Peshmerga and at the forefront of the fight with ISIS.  Despite its significance and proximity to probably the most important war […]

Join YPT in the centenary year of the October Revolution for an epic journey through the former Soviet Union. From Chernobyl, to the recently war-torn Russian republic of Chechnya, to our first-ever tour to one of the world’s newest unrecognised countries – South Ossetia. Plus, we head to the Far East to the Magadan region, known […]

After constant research trips and negotiations, YPT is proud to bring you the ultimate tour to the breakaway state of South Ossetia. Despite being the most difficult to enter out of all four post-Soviet breakaway countries, YPT is able to obtain expedited entry permits for the republic. Only around 500 non-Russian tourists have visited South […]

The history of Magadan and the Kolyma region is inherently dark. As a hub for gulags during the most terrifying years of Soviet Rule, it became home to ‘’the Road of Bones’’, a highway stretching thousands of miles and costing thousands of lives. Prisoners who died simply buried on the spot and became part of […]

Join YPT in Irkutsk as we head to the stunning early winter in Lake Baikal. We’ll be exploring the city of Irkutsk, Siberia’s second city after Vladivostok, and one with an amazing history and culture of St Petersburg exiles and local ethnic groups. We’ll be spending 3 nights in and around Lake Baikal, its various […]

Join YPT in Irkutsk as we head to the stunning Lake Baikal. We’ll be exploring the city of Irkutsk, Siberia’s second city after Vladivostok, and one with an amazing history and culture of St Petersburg exiles and local ethnic groups. We’ll be spending 3 nights in and around Lake Baikal, its various villages and islands, […]

Join YPT as we journey once again on our Iran & Iraqi Kurdistan Combo tour!  Iran is a destination we know and love well; however, the lesser visited Kurdistan is a prospective new nation protected by the Peshmerga and at the forefront of the fight with ISIS.  Despite its significance and proximity to probably the […]

Join YPT for some truly Red tourism and travel to the unexplored hinterlands of the Communist Revolution! This tour takes you from the seat of Communist power Beijing to the ancient capital Xi’an, onwards north to Yan’an, the revolutionary Red Base of Chairman Mao, the CCP and the Red Army, combining the cities of Beijing […]