Downtown Indianapolis, Downtown Indy or the Mile Square whatever name it’s given, and it goes under the guise of all three, is an ever-expanding downtown district. Since receiving the moniker of Mile Square back in the early 1800s, the city’s…
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15 Best Tours of Zagreb
With a population of more than 800,000, Zagreb is Croatia’s capital and largest city. It’s located in the northwest portion of the country along the Sava River, and has been continually inhabited since at least the beginning of the 12th…
Read More15 Best Things to Do in Caribou (Maine)
Even though it has a small population of just 8,000 people, the city of Caribou is still the second largest in the Aroostook County of Maine. The National Weather Service Forecast Office is located here and it’s also an important…
Read MoreJunggang County
Guide to the Junggang Region Touristically one of the least visited places in North Korea (for western guests anyway), it lies opposite of our favourite Chinese cities from borderlands, Linjiang, which you can read about here. Junggang County is in…
Read More15 Best Things to Do in Downtown Boston
Downtown Boston is one of the oldest settlements in North America and has a history dating back to the arrival of the Puritans in the early 1600s. Throughout the centuries, Boston has played an important role in major historical moments…
Read MorePochon County
Introduction to Pochon. Poch’ŏn County is a county in Ryanggang Province, North Korea. It looks westward across the AmnokRiver/Tumen River to China. It is, therefore, one of the many amazing places we get to see on one of our borderlands…
Read MoreMilitary Foundation Day
When is Military Foundation Day in North Korea? When is Military foundation day in North Korea? Well, there are two answers, February 8th, and April 25th, and as always, there is a story behind this… North Korea, much like the…
Read MoreGetting on an Iraq Tour from the UK
Iraq is one of our hottest destinations and why wouldn’t it be. It is both the cradle of civilization, with fascinating ruins of Ur and Babylon and was at the center of the news until very recently as it was…
Read MoreWhat is a Mongolian Ger
White round tents dotting the Mongolian grasslands, few things are evocative of the Mongolian nomad life style like the typical hut of the Mongols. But what exactly is a Mongolian Ger? Let us at YPT take you on a trip…
Read MoreMongolia Ice Marathon
It is one formidable thing to want to travel to the most remote and off-beaten path corners of the world. It is also something to want to go to every country in the world but for many of our guests,…
Read More15 Best Things to Do in Freeport (Maine)
Freeport in Cumberland County, Maine is famous for its outlet stores but there is much more to attract visitors. Settlers first came to the area late in the 17th century and Freeport was initially part of North Yarmouth. A town…
Read More15 Best Things to Do in Downtown San Francisco
With a nickname like FiDi, it’s not difficult to deduce that Downtown San Francisco is the city’s designated financial district. The central nucleus of the district covers just half a square mile which is chock-a-block with impressive skyscrapers occupied by…
Read More14 Best Strasbourg Tours
The historic city of Strasbourg sits on the border between France and Germany. This location means the city is highly influenced by both French and German culture. It’s a fairly large city in the Grand Est region of France with…
Read More14 Best Things to Do in Cañon City (CO)
City is a town of about 17,000 residents that’s located near the geographic center of Colorado. It’s the seat of Fremont County and is a popular destination for nature lovers and outdoor enthusiasts of all stripes. Cañon City’s proximity to…
Read More15 Best Things to Do in Firestone (CO)
Firestone is a town of about 12,000 residents that’s equidistant from Denver to the south and Fort Collins to the north. Located in Weld County just to the west of Interstate 25, it is perfectly positioned to offer visitors easy…
Read More12 Best Auschwitz Tours
In April of 1940, Auschwitz was established as an extermination camp for Jews shipped in from all over Europe. Arguably one of the most historically significant and poignant attractions in the world, for most visitors, it ends up being one…
Read MorePyongyang Duck BBQ Restaurant
The Pyongyang Duck BBQ restaurant is one of the best and most iconic restaurants in Pyongyang. Let me tell you! Ten years ago, Pyongyang was a very very different place to what it is today, and certainly, from a restaurant…
Read MoreKim Hyong-Gwon – The Forgotten Revolutionary
Who was Kim Hyon-Gwon? Kim Hyong-Gwon (Korean: 김형권; 4 November 1905 – 12 January 1936) was Korean independence leader, communist revolutionary son of Kim Bo-Hyon, and brother of Kim Jong-Hyik, the father of North Korea’s founder President Kim Il Sung….
Read MoreThe Top 5 Reasons to visit Vanuatu
Vanuatu is one of the favourite parts of our yearly Least Visited Countries Tour there are a lot of reasons for this! Vanuatu might not fall into the “least visited” category, there are a lot of tourists, but it offers…
Read MoreRussia’s Isolated Paradise of Tofalaria
In the vast region of Siberia there is no shortage of places that are extremely difficult to access even for local people, never mind tourists. A place which takes the number one spot of inaccessibility and isolation is one you’ve…
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15 Best Things to Do in Sint-Truiden (Belgium)
This city in Belgian Limburg grew up around a Benedictine abbey founded by the devout 7th-century Frankish nobleman Saint Trudo. That abbey was a major pilgrimage site in Medieval times, making the city rich and becoming one of the most…
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15 Best Things to Do in Starke (FL)
Starke is a city of about 6,000 residents in north-central Florida’s Bradford County that’s equidistant between Jacksonville to the northeast and Gainesville to the southwest. The area is most well-known for its largely undeveloped tracts of land, numerous lakes, and…
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15 Best Things to Do in Fort Myers Beach (FL)
Fort Myers Beach is a small city of around 7,000 people situated on Estero Island in Lee County in southwestern Florida. The city’s location along the Gulf Coast means the area has a tropical climate, with warm temperatures and sunny…
Read MorePicture blog of Beijing during the Coronavirus
News has spread how most Chinese cities in Hubei province have quarantined locals to prevent the further spread of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Whilst most Chinese citizens have taken their own precautions of staying inside and limiting the amount of…
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15 Best Things to Do in Geel (Belgium)
In the south of the Kempen region, Geel is a city that was much venerated by Medieval pilgrims. This was all for Dymphna, a 7th-century Irish princess supposedly martyred here. She was beheaded by her mentally ill father, who was…
Read MoreLeast Visited Countries – the Prequel
Micronesia waterfall We have now been running tours to the least visited countries in the world – all located in the Pacific – for three years now, and remain the only company to do so. Each iteration of our Least…
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15 Best Things to Do in Cape Canaveral (FL)
Located along the central portion of Florida’s Atlantic coast east of Orlando, Cape Canaveral is in Brevard County and is most well-known as the epicenter of the country’s space program. The area around Cape Canaveral was originally explored by Ponce…
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15 Best Things to Do in Lokeren (Belgium)
On the banks of the languid Durme River, Lokeren is a small city in the East Flanders. Lokeren’s greatest asset is the nature found effortlessly close city centre. From the train station you can hop on a bike, and Waasland’s…
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15 Best Things to Do in Vilvoorde (Belgium)
Named for a ford on the River Zenne, the city of Vilvoorde is about 10 kilometres north-east of Brussels and linked to the capital by the Brussels-Scheldt Canal. Vilvoorde gained city rights as long ago as 1198, and for decades…
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15 Best Things to Do in Avon Park (FL)
The City of Avon Park is located in the central portion of Florida in Highlands County. Its nearest metropolitan neighbor is Orlando to the north. It’s also equidistant from the Atlantic coast to the east and the Gulf Coast to…
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15 Best Things to Do in Turnhout (Belgium)
Home of the international playing card manufacturer Cartamundi, Turnhout is also unofficial capital of the Kempen region, a landscape of heathland, dunes and fens in the north-east of Belgium Turnhout had ties with the sport of hunting for hundreds of…
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15 Best Things to Do in Ostend (Belgium)
The largest city on Belgium’s coast is imbued with a royal flair that goes back to the middle of the 19th century when it became Leopold I’s resort of choice. Belgium’s aristocracy followed suit, and Ostend’s lofty status is confirmed…
Read More10 best Communist relics in Bulgaria
Despite siding with Fascist forces in WW2, after a Soviet-backed coup in the 1940s Bulgaria operated as a communist state under the reign of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) for 44 years between 1946 and 1990. Whilst not part of…
Read More10 Facts About North Korea
Let’s face it, North Korea is an inherently interesting place. It’s one of the few places on Earth we can’t just load up Google and start digitally walking its streets. We can’t even talk to its citizens for the most…
Read MoreNouadhibou : A City Guide
Nouadhibou is the second most important city of Mauritania. Located at the north of the country, less than an hour driving from the wild border between Morocco and Mauritania, controlled by Western Sahara, it is an important fishing port of…
Read MoreBirdwatching in North Korea
When it comes to a trip to the DPRK you may be thinking about political and historical sights, factories and collective farms, the border with South Korea at the DMZ. You may even be thinking about a trip to the…
Read MoreMansudae Grand Monument
The Mansudae Grand Monument is one of the most iconic spots in Pyongyang and features two enormous bronze statues of the former leaders, President Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il, The monument also includes a mural of Mt…
Read MoreCONIFA WORLD CUP 2020 GROUP STAGE DRAW
As we continue our coverage of the CONIFA World Cup 2020 in Skopje, the group stage draw for the finals were made this week and it’s thrown up some absolute corkers! It’s difficult to argue against Group D being the…
Read MoreTravelling to America after a tour to the DPRK… getting a tourist visa is easy!
Guest blog by Pioneer Joseph Harrison, a British guy living and teaching in China with an exotic taste in travel! He describes his experience getting a US tourist visa after his tour to the DPRK meant he couldn’t use the…
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